Great leadership can lead to great creativity results.
This episode discusses:
- Selection, hiring, and interviewing
- Organization culture, values, morale, and motivation
- Developing trust
- Advocacy vs. Inquiry
- Belbin Team Roles: Coordinator, Shaper, Plant, Team Worker, Implementer, Completer-Finisher, Monitor-Evaluator, Resource Investigator, Specialist
- Situational leadership
- Leadership styles: Visionary, Coaching, Affiliative, Democratic, Pacesetting, Commanding
References used in this episode:
- Management: Skills and Application, by Leslie W. Rue and Lloyd L. Byars, for a history of management and a good “Management 101″ book.
- Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t, by Jim Collins, and First, Break All the Rules: What the World’s Greatest Managers Do Differently, by Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman, for a discussion on the importance of selection and how to select people.
- Talent Is Overrated: What Really Separates World-Class Performers from Everybody Else, by Geoff Colvin for a discussion on talent and how to improve it. There is a good book excerpt in Fortune Magazine.
- Leadershiptraq podcast on leadership.
- Management Powertools by Harry Onsman for good descriptions of Vision, Mission, and Values statements for an organization and many other topics.
- The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable, by Patrick Lencioni, for a discussion of what great teamwork is comprised of.
- Manager Tools podcasts on Communication for discussions on the importance of communication with personal relationships andmotivation, plus much other good stuff. Specifically, check out the episode on Virtual Teams.
- What You Don’t Know About Making Decisions, by David A. Garvin and Michael A. Roberto, a Harvard Business Review article on Advocacy vs. Inquiry for decision making.
- Belbin Team Roles.
- Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules, by Steve McConnell, and Death March (2nd Edition) (Yourdon Press Series), by Edward Yourdon, for a discussion on team roles.
- Primal Leadership - Realizing The Power Of Emotional Intelligence, by Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, and Annie McKee, for their descriptions of the various leadership styles.
- The Discipline of Market Leaders: Choose Your Customers, Narrow Your Focus, Dominate Your Market, by Michael Treacy and Fred Wiersema, for a discussion on how to focus company resources to be either a leader in operational excellence, product innovation, OR customer intimacy.
- U.S. Global Investors Funds Annual Report, June 30, 2008.
11:08 pm on November 3rd, 2008 1
In the podcast episode I mentioned a saying, something like, “management is about doing the right things, and leadership is about doing things right.”
This is attributable to Warren G. Bennis, (who, BTW, is interviewed on the LeadershipTraq podcast in episode 3), with the actual quote being: “Managers have as their goal to do things right. Leaders have as their goal to do the right thing.”
I found this in Richard Nixon’s 1982 book, “Leaders,” in the first chapter. I’ve had this book for a number of years now and have read bits and pieces of it previously, and while prepping for this episode on leadership, I was inspired to read it from the beginning. Tonight I finished up to the second chapter on Winston Churchill - quite a fascinating read!
12:10 am on November 6th, 2008 2
[...] One of the topics I have in my podcast episodes list is on “Creativity Enhancers and Killers.” I thought of this earlier this week when I read a Wall Street Journal article titled Micromanagers Miss Bull’s-Eye, which is also related to my previous episode, Leadership and Creativity. [...]
11:22 am on November 8th, 2008 3
For a good example of the Affiliative Leadership Style, check out Manager Tools’ podcast “One Kind Thing”, http://www.manager-tools.com/2008/05/one-kind-thing/.
9:56 am on March 19th, 2009 4
[...] Encourage and enable employees to pursue outside interests. This was touched on in the episode on leadership. [...]
3:59 pm on May 12th, 2009 5
Here’s an interesting article in the May 2009 issue of Inc Magazine, “Why Gray Matter Matters: Inside the entrepreneur’s brain”, http://www.inc.com/magazine/20090501/charles-jacobs-goes-inside-the-entrepreneurs-brain.html.
Discusses brain mirror neurons and leadership.