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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Leadership (with featured article "What Makes an Effective Executive," by Peter F. Drucker) Paperback – January 3, 2011
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Go from being a good manager to an extraordinary leader.
If you read nothing else on leadership, read these 10 articles (featuring “What Makes an Effective Executive,” by Peter F. Drucker). We've combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles on leadership and selected the most important ones to help you maximize your own and your organization's performance.
HBR's 10 Must Reads On Leadership will inspire you to:
- Motivate others to excel
- Build your team's self-confidence in others
- Provoke positive change
- Set direction
- Encourage smart risk-taking
- Manage with tough empathy
- Credit others for your success
- Increase self-awareness
- Draw strength from adversity
This collection of best-selling articles includes: featured article "What Makes an Effective Executive" by Peter F. Drucker, "What Makes a Leader?" "What Leaders Really Do," "The Work of Leadership," "Why Should Anyone Be Led by You?" "Crucibles of Leadership," "Level 5 Leadership: The Triumph of Humility and Fierce Resolve," "Seven Transformations of Leadership," "Discovering Your Authentic Leadership," and "In Praise of the Incomplete Leader."
- Print length240 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherHarvard Business Review Press
- Publication dateJanuary 3, 2011
- Dimensions5.5 x 0.75 x 8.25 inches
- ISBN-101422157970
- ISBN-13978-1422157978
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More specifically, the essays cover the following questions:
* What does a leader need to do? ("What Makes an Effective Executive?", "What Leaders Really Do", "The Work of Leadership")
* What is the ideal personality of a leader? ("What Makes a Good Leader?", "Why Should Anyone Be Led By You?", "Level 5 Leadership")
* What are the various competencies of leadership and how can they be distributed across different people? ("In Praise of the Incomplete Leader", "Seven Transformations of Leadership")
While reading, it's impossible not to notice the fact that while many of the articles attempt to answer same questions, they arrive at a very different conclusions. Several of the articles openly admit that while thousands of scholars have attempted to produce a cookie-cutter leadership profile, none has emerged. Successful leadership is highly circumstantial, and its effectiveness in of itself is difficult to measure or compare.
Overall, I walked away with greatly improved perspective and understanding of what it takes to be an effective leader, as well as tools to help me grow and handle various situational challenges.
Below are reviews of each article:
"What Makes a Good Leader?"
Daniel Goleman's article describes emotional intelligence as one of the keys to being an effective leader. For someone already familiar with Goleman's work or emotional intelligence, the concepts in his article won't be new. Nonetheless it is helpful to see them described within the context of leadership.
"What Makes an Effective Executive?"
Peter Drucker's "What Makes an Effective Executive?" was one of my favorite. It lays out a simple set of actionable leadership tasks for people in both new and existing leadership roles. As someone who's recently taken on a new leadership role at my company, this article was immensely helpful to me in clarifying what I should be doing. I believe notes from this article should be reviewed regularly.
"What Leaders Really Do"
This article is a great complement to Drucker's "What Makes an Effective Executive?". Kotter describes how to set business "vision" and direction and what a leader must do to successfully move an organization toward achieving it. Kotter also breaks down differences between management and leadership to frame differences as well as the importance of both.
"The Work of Leadership"
This article centers around the concept of "adaptive challenges", which are described as "murky, systemic problems with no easy answers" such as increasing competition in an industry.
The authors argue that such challenges require an entire organization to adapt and change, and that the role of leadership is not to set the direction or develop solutions, but rather to frame questions and issues and create an environment for people across the organization to achieve solutions.
While I found the overall points helpful, I found the article verbose and confusing at times. Even the word "adaptive challenge" is abstract to the point where I constantly had to review what it was referring to.
"Why Should Anyone Be Led By You?"
This article suggests four personality traits needed to inspire others and retain committed followers. I found it to be a simple and actionable set of qualities that a leader should try to embody in their presentation and interactions with others.
"Crucibles of Leadership"
This article describes how many successful leaders have gone through "crucibles", or life experiences where they faced adversity and emerged transformed. The article identifies the specific skills and traits needed to overcome and emerge positively from these experiences, and argues that they are the same skills and trains needed for successful leadership.
"Level 5 Leadership"
Jim Collins describes "level 5 leaders" (the highest level of leadership) as embodying the dualistic personality traits of personal humility and fearless professional will. While emphasizing the critical importance of "level 5 leadership", the article also describes other leadership strategies that turn good companies into great ones.
"Seven Transformations of Leadership"
This article describes a hierarchy of leadership styles, ranging from ineffective to highly effective. The purpose of this hierarchy is to be able to identify someone's (or your own) leadership style, and figure out how to grow to the next level. While I was able to identify with some of the styles listed and found the breakdown helpful as a whole, I'm not sure if I walked away with much benefit from this article.
"Discovering Your Authentic Leadership"
This article argues that no cookie-cutter leadership formula exists, and that you cannot become a trusted leader by trying to imitate someone else. You can and should learn from others' experiences, but the only way to become an authentic leader is to be you and commit yourself to lifelong learning and self-development
"In Praise of the Incomplete Leader"
This article highlights the danger of assuming that leaders should do and be everything. The article breaks down leadership into four distinct competencies that can be developed or distributed, depending on the strengths and weaknesses of a leader and the needs of the organization.
The differences between business and political leadership are large, but many problems are similar. Shared studies and exchanges of views may help to advance the study and improvement of both business and political leadership, as needed - more urgently so in respect to political leadership given its rather unsatisfactory performance. This book provides starting points for doing so.
Professor Yehezkel Dror
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
This was one of the many works I relied upon in the writing of my book on leadership: "Profiles in Leadership from Caesar to Modern Times." It brings to life the leadership qualities, traits and words of wisdom of Julius Caesar, Augustus, Napoleon, Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Margaret Thatcher, Eleanor Roosevelt and Oprah Winfrey. Their leadership skills are as relevant today as they were when they applied them. Our leaders of today could benefit both from the HBR collection and "Profiles in Leadership from Caesar to Modern Times," to find solutions to our challenges which grow each year and each decade.
In particular, Daniel Goldman’s “ What Makes a Leader?” and Drucker’s “What Makes an Effective Executive” are key to personal success.
Being the boss is a tough job. This books’ articles, while not a roadmap, show leaders a path to success.
Worth the time to read.
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