Leadership is the theme of countless articles and books, and the complexities help explain why there are so many ways of thinking about it. To facilitate knowledge sharing and learning related to this important topic, ODL has developed the E-Leadership Forum.
The resources listed below offer interesting perspectives on themes related to leadership and organizational development. If there are other topics you would like to see presented in future issues of the E-Leadership Forum, please write us at: center@odl.rutgers.edu
ARTICLES
How Clear Decision Roles Enhance Organizational Performance (Rogers and Blenko)
Decision making is fundamental to organizational life. Every success, every mishap, every opportunity seized or missed stems from a decision someone made - or failed to make...
Tipping Point Leadership (Kim and Mauborgne)
How can you hope to achieve a high level of productivity when time and money are scarce? Police chief Bill Bratton has pulled that off again and again. Here's what it takes...
Leadership Development Practices of Top-Performing Organizations (Orlando)
Developing leaders is a formidable challenge. The lack of competent leadership talent is widely cited as one of the major impediment to organization effectiveness. Learn how some leading organizations address this challenge...
Taking Your Leadership to the Next Level (Eblin)
The transition from manager to executive-level leader can be a difficult one. Studies find that some 40 percent of new executives leave their jobs within the first eighteen months. Find out what can be done to avoid this fate...
Adapting and Innovating in an Uncertain World (Yukl and Lepsinger)
Being able to respond in a timely manner to emerging threats and opportunities is crucial to organizational performance. The best leaders are able to effectively influence three critical dimensions of organizational effectiveness—adaptation, efficiency, and human resources…
A Leader's Framework for Developing Adaptability (Calarco and Garvis)
In today’s world of rapid change, leaders are coming to recognize that they need to develop adaptability to be effective. According to these authors, the process of developing adaptability begins with learning and practicing three types of flexibility—cognitive, emotional, and dispositional...
Awakened Leadership in Today's Organizations (Marques)
Awakened leadership - the ability to be “situational-plus” - has yet to be widely established as a leadership style. But, once fully understood and evaluated on its many advantages for leaders, their followers, and the organizations, it will get there...
BOOK REVIEW
Character is Destiny Book Review (McCain and Salter) Character is Destiny presents a unified vision of character and its many attributes. Drawing on the lives and challenges of well known - and some not-so-well known - historical figures, McCain and Salter show how virtue of character shapes one’s destiny in the face of adversity...
STREAMING VIDEO
Leadership Forum Video
Harvey Nagler, Vice President CBS News, Radio – “Change Has No Constituency”