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The best leaders are also technical experts
Anne Saini, Ian Fox, and Hannah Bates, Harvard Business Review, 19 July 2023Being a great manager isn’t enough to lead others to success. You also need to deeply understand your organisation’s core business.
Amanda Goodall studies the relationship between leaders and organisational performance. She argues that the best leaders are technical experts — for example, doctors who head...
adaptive leadership
leadership communications
Six ways to become a more collaborative leader
Luis Velasquez and Kristin Gleitsman, Harvard Business ReviewIn today’s fast-paced corporate landscape, most highly experienced leaders entering an organisation are driven by a desire to make a significant impact and drive meaningful change. However, the approach they adopt in championing new ideas becomes the differentiating factor between success and failure....
adaptive leadership
leadership communications
How to manage your team’s workload after layoffs
Dina Denham Smith and Frans van Loef, Harvard Business ReviewAll too often in the case of layoffs, the people who survive it are expected to pick up the work that their terminated colleagues left behind. Meanwhile, these layoff survivors are often struggling with survivor guilt, anxiety, and low morale. In short, after a layoff, more is being asked of people who have less to...
adaptive leadership
workplace
Seven ways to make employees feel respected, according to research
Jack Zenger and Joseph Folkman, Harvard Business ReviewTreating everyone with respect is the foundation of good leadership. Employees who feel disrespected are more likely to also feel excluded or even inferior. The authors offer seven behaviours, based on their analysis of data collected from more than 4,500 employees, that lead to a demonstration and feeling of...
workplace
adaptive leadership
CEOs, step into the front lines or risk losing touch
Leading change is both a top-down process and a bottom-up process. The goal is to educate and energise colleagues at every level, especially those on the front lines, about the power of your plans, and to be educated and energised by the pragmatic wisdom of their experiences. Change programs work when they shape...
adaptive leadership
When great minds don’t think alike
Temple Grandin, Harvard Business ReviewAs organisations strive to make their workforces more diverse with respect to race, gender equity, and people with disabilities, leaders need to apply these same strategies to employees with different kinds of minds. The author, who has more than 50 years of experience in industry and academia, explains how she...
adaptive leadership
How great leaders communicate
Carmine Gallo, Harvard Business ReviewTransformational leaders are exceptional communicators. In this piece, the author outlines four communication strategies to help motivate and inspire your team: 1) Use short words to talk about hard things. 2) Choose sticky metaphors to reinforce key concepts. 3) Humanize data to create value. 4). Make mission your...
leadership communications
adaptive leadership
Building stakeholder trust in measures of sustainable performance
Matthew Falconer and Cécile Saint-Martin, Strategy+BusinessInvestors say they value a company’s data on sustainability almost as much as they value its financial data. They need to be able to trust it as much, too.
adaptive leadership
socio political environment
stakeholder
Spinning uncertainty into success
Tom Ehrenfeld, Strategy+BusinessA new self-help book gleans lessons from entrepreneurs who saw potential where others saw
executive education
adaptive leadership
Can Design Thinking Succeed in Your Organization?
David Dunne, Theresa Eriksson, and Jan Kietzmann, MIT SloanMany leaders become discouraged when design thinking doesn’t get the results they expect. They can improve the odds of success by assessing the readiness of their organizations and preparing their teams for a different problem-solving process.
executive education
adaptive leadership