by Jamie Notter | Mar 30, 2007 | Leadership
In an earlier post I referenced Peter Senge’s definition of leadership (in short, a capacity to shape the future). The capacity is fundamentally a group one, although obviously individuals would need to develop capacities as well. And in addition to individual and...
by Jamie Notter | Mar 15, 2007 | Change, Leadership
Guy Kawasaki points to an article by Stanford psychology professor, Carol Dweck about the role of “mindset” in success (in both business and family). Dweck seems to have a lot about raising children, but Kawasaki applied it to organizations:Here’s some food for...
by Jamie Notter | Mar 13, 2007 | Leadership
Newton Holt writes a great article about Howard Gardner’s “Five Minds” research (Five Minds for the Future) in Associations Now. It reminded me a bit of the Ancona et al. article in Harvard Business Review that talked about the four basic leadership abilities in that...
by Jamie Notter | Feb 26, 2007 | Individual Development, Leadership
I can’t stress enough how GREAT the February issue of Harvard Business Review is. I’ve already got the March issue, plus several other magazines I want to read, but I have been putting them off as I continue to read super articles in this issue. As I said in the last...
by Jamie Notter | Feb 22, 2007 | Leadership
The next good article in Harvard Business Review is called “In Praise of the Incomplete Leader,” by Deborah Ancona, Tomas Malone, Wanda Orlikowski, and Peter Senge. They point to a myth of leadership in this country: that leaders are the flawless people at the top who...
by Jamie Notter | Feb 16, 2007 | Leadership
I went to the Web 2.0 “mega” session at the Technology conference this week (Jeff was a panelist). It was very interesting to see how many of the association executives in the audience reacted to what the panelists were saying about blogs, wikis, and social...
