Month: April 2021

Clipped from: https://www.forbes.com/sites/rodgerdeanduncan/2021/04/06/so-you-want-to-lead-lift-where-you-stand/?sh=7d97018736e3  So you want to make a leadership difference? Lift where you stand.  Pexels   As you’ve no doubt heard countless times, effective leadership is not about title or the location of your box on the organization chart. It’s not about the authority you wield. Or your family pedigree. Or the school you attended. Or any other demographic data point.  Effective leadership—especially extraordinary leadership—is all about strategic influence. Strategic influence on self-development and strategic influence with the people around you.  Nobody understands this better than James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner, probably best-known as the authors of The Leadership Challenge and other classics in the leadership genre.  In addition to their sterling academic credentials (Jim is a Fellow of the Doerr Institute for New Leaders at Rice University, Barry is an Endowed Professor of Leadership and department chair at Santa Clara University), both are seasoned (and much in demand) facilitators of leadership workshops around the world.  Jim and Barry offer a succinct movie trailer for their new book: Leadership is learnable. “It’s about transforming values into actions, visions into realities, obstacles into innovations, division into unity, and risks into rewards. It’s about creating an environment in which people can work together to turn perplexing problems and challenging opportunities into remarkable success.”  This content-rich book shares insights based on original research and case studies. For example, in explaining the role of relationships in...