General Leadership

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

When Jorge Mario Bergoglio was selected as the 266th pope of the Catholic Church in early 2013 he immediately showed the world his leadership style would be different than those before him. Some reading this may be familiar with the Jesuit order, many may not. Admittedly, I wasn’t for a very long time.

Commitment 419

Commitment Mentor Examples Compliance 419

Great Leadership By Dan

JUNE 27, 2013

They make up what I like to call the Rodney Dangerfield ("I get no respect") subcategories of the leadership topic. Below are four of these Dangerfield topics that are important for leaders to understand and incorporate into their leadership styles. Leadership always comes before management.

Covey 238

Covey Leadership Sports Learning-by-Doing 238

Chartered Management Institute

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Big Data, and its close cousin the Internet of Things, are among the trendier terms of 2013. It often helps if the executive in charge is not from IT, but from operations or marketing, and that there are close links with customer-facing and other operational roles. They are transforming each and every business model.

Leadership Styles 83

Leadership Styles Human Capital Ethics McKinsey 83

Skip Prichard

JUNE 3, 2020

When it finally came to my attention, I realized right away that large-scale, controlled experimentation would revolutionize the way all companies operate their businesses and how managers make decisions. Consider Kohl’s, the large retailer, which in 2013 was looking for ways to decrease its operating costs.

Power 94

Power Kahneman Open-book Learning-by-Doing 94

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 25, 2016

Superbosses : How Exceptional Leaders Master the Flow of Talent by Sydney Finkelstein Although Superbosses may differ in leadership styles, they share a playbook that leads to extraordinary success founded on making other people successful. Related Interest: Best Leadership Books of 2015. Best Leadership Books of 2014.

Books 150

Books Leadership Cialdini Govindarajan 150

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, who is known to expect unwavering discipline from his workers, personifies this leadership style. Employees operate within a hierarchy and are well aware of the guidelines that dictate their behavior. Managers could operate their stores with autonomy and tailor products to customer preferences.

Price 13

Price Decentralization Long-term Self-aware 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 15, 2015

Getting the company back on its feet required a major boost in operating efficiency. We succeeded, but by 2013 we worried that we had taken our focus on results too far. The leadership model can’t become an excuse for slacking off. We still need strong operational results if we are going to stay competitive.

Resistance 8

Resistance Long-term Short-term Self-aware 8