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The three things that people commonly do that are always destructive to friendship are:
- Criticizing the friend’s behavior.
- Asking too much of the friend.
- Attempting to coerce the friend to do what friend does not want to do.
(pp. 35-36)
Glasser, W. (1994). The control theory manager. New York: HarperBusiness.
It is hard to disregard the importance of effective leadership as a key predictor of organizational success. People may not care too much about leadership failures in private sectors, but the same reaction is not expected by people when the failure is in public sectors. Leadership failures in private companies affect limited numbers of people. When it comes to any public organization such as a public school, a public library or a police department, leadership failures affect many people. That situation clearly puts public sector leaders under huge pressure. Leadership in public sectors is a risky task, because unsuccessful leadership may sometimes cause failures of communities or even failure of societies. Therefore, ISREF aimed to analyze the leadership issue from a general perspective. As a reader, you will have a chance to read different perspectives on leadership throughout the month of May.
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It is estimated that 42% of leaders spend up to 5 days at leadership development programs each year, with a further 28% attending more than 5 days. Yet only 10-15% of management training leads to sustained changes in pratice. There has been a great deal of research into effective leadership, yet the study of leadership development is a relatively young field. The research that does exist tells us a lot about what works and what doesn’t, and we are learning more every day. You can learn to be a better leader than you are now, yet such learning is not as simple as reading a book or attending a course. You can also design evidence-based leadership development interventions that will build leadership capacity throughout your organisation.
However, too many organisations spend tens of millions of dollars on poorly designed interventions that do no deliver the desired results. Whilst indivduals find themselves leaving workshop workshops with good intentions that do get translated into sustained changes in behaviour within the workplace.Not only does this waste money and time, it fails to reap in the rewards that more effective leadership would have brought the organization. When you consider that research shows that the effectiveness of leadership consistently accounts for between 20-45% of difference in organisational performance levels, this is a significant lost opportunity.
Effective leadership development is about developing a person – not just increasing a person’s knowledge about how to lead. Such personal development focuses on helping leaders identify and leverage their strengths whilst minimising the impact of their weaknesses. There is Buddhist saying that holds true for leadership,
“to know and not to do is not to know at all”. Aristotle went further when he asserted that “we are the sum of our behaviours – excellence therefore is not a single act but a habit.” Developing leadership involves enhancing the habitual behaviours of leaders. These habitual behaviours are deeply entrenched and are influenced by a leader’s personality, along with learnt their attitudes, values and beliefs read more…
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Leadership is not just for leaders anymore. Top companies are beginning to understand that sustaining peak performance requires a firm-wide commitment to developing leaders that is tightly aligned to organizational objectives — a commitment much easier to understand than to achieve. Organizations must find ways to cascade leadership from senior management to men and women at all levels. As retired Harvard Business School professor John P. Kotter eloquently noted in the previous issue of strategy+business, this ultimately means we must “create 100 million new leaders” throughout our society. (See “Leading Witnesses,” s+b, Summer 2004.) read more
Good leaders are made not born. If you have the desire and willpower, you can become an effective leader. Good leaders develop through a never ending process of self-study, education, training, and experience. This guide will help you through that process. read more
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