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James Mattis: My Favorite Books

Leading Blog

The Rules of the Game: Jutland and British Naval Command by Andrew Gordon. Strategy, Ethics and the War on Terrorism by Albert Pierce. Other Men's Flowers: An Anthology of Poetry by Lord Wavell. * * * This list is available as a PDF. * * * Like us on Instagram and Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas.

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Hamilton Recognized His Challenges

Coaching Tip

Source: Gordon Leidner: The Leadership Secrets of Hamilton: 7 Steps to Revolutionary Leadership from Alexander Hamilton and the Founding Fathers. Elizabeth Cobbs: The Hamilton Affair: A Novel. Cyrus Durey: Frontiersmen of the Adirondacks: Economic Development in Early North America. George Washington.

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Strategic Planning Alternatives: Mission Discernment

LDRLB

My colleague Dr. Gordon Self has developed a Mission Discernment Tool for use within Covenant Health (Disclaimer: I also work for Covenant Health). Mission Discernment: A preventative ethics strategy for leaders in Catholic health care organizations. But how exactly does one ‘discern’ the mission? 2010, Nov-Dec).

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Strategic Planning Alternatives: Mission Discernment

LDRLB

My colleague Dr. Gordon Self has developed a Mission Discernment Tool for use within Covenant Health (Disclaimer: I also work for Covenant Health). Mission Discernment: A preventative ethics strategy for leaders in Catholic health care organizations. But how exactly does one ‘discern’ the mission? 2010, Nov-Dec).

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April 2017 Leadership Development Carnival

Lead Change Blog

Welcome to the April 2017 edition of the Leadership Development Carnival! As I read through this month’s Leadership Development Carnival entries, I felt a bit of the same. Gordon Leidner answers these questions in his guest post on Great Leadership!” If so, What can we learn from them?”

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7 Steps To Foster Emotional Intelligence In Your Team

Tanveer Naseer

While creating successful teams isn’t as simple as mimicking the processes of emotionally intelligent groups of people, what you can do is create the necessary conditions in which team members can develop their emotional intelligence. Those three conditions are: trust among members, a sense of group identity and a sense of group efficacy.

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Self-Assessment

Marshall Goldsmith

In the movie Wall Street, Michael Douglas won an Oscar for his portrayal of the rude, larcenous wheeler-dealer Gordon Gekko. While listening to Steve speak openly to coworkers about his efforts to develop himself, I realized how much the world has changed. I don't need to work on developing myself.'