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Leadership skills - These skills offer the ability to understand and communicate the company’s needs and inspire others to work diligently toward goals Behavioral acknowledgements - Recognizing the behavior and perceptions of others enables managers to resolve conflicts, manage stress, improve themselves as well as others, and increase ...
Cost leadership is often driven by company efficiency, size, scale, scope and cumulative experience (learning curve). A cost leadership strategy aims to exploit scale of production, well-defined scope and other economies (e.g., a good purchasing approach), producing highly standardized products, using advanced technology. [2]
The Washington Post describes The Leadership Challenge as a "business-meets-self help canon." [1] Carmine Gallo and Tom Gerace have cited The Leadership Challenge as an important book in developing their leadership skills. [5] [16] Verne Harnish described the book as "one of the five most important leadership books ever written." [17]
Effective Motivation. Pan. 1996. ISBN 0-330-34476-5. How to Grow Leaders: The Seven Key Principles of Effective Leadership Development. Kogan Page Ltd. 2006 [1996]. ISBN 0-7494-4839-3. Effective Communication. Pan. 1997. ISBN 0-330-34786-1. John Adair's 100 Greatest Ideas for Effective Leadership and Management (100 Greatest Ideas). Capstone ...
Subsequently, leadership was no longer characterized as an enduring individual trait—situational approaches (see alternative leadership theories below) posited that individuals can be effective in certain situations, but not others. The focus then shifted away from traits of leaders to an investigation of the leader behaviors that were effective.
Substitutes for leadership theory is a leadership theory first developed by Steven Kerr and John M. Jermier and published in Organizational Behavior and Human Performance in December 1978. [ 1 ] The theory states that different situational factors can enhance, neutralize, or substitute for leader behaviors [ 2 ] (Den Hartog & Koopman, 2001).
In his 2012 book Seeing the Big Picture, Business Acumen to Build Your Credibility, Career, and Company, Kevin R. Cope states an individual who possesses business acumen views the business with an "executive mentality", with the ability to comprehend how the moving parts of a company work together to make to ensure success, and how financial metrics like profit margin, cash flow, and stock ...
"At its heart is the leader's self-awareness, his progress toward self-mastery and technical competence, and his sense of connection with those around him. It's the inner core, the source, of a leader's outer leadership effectiveness." (Scouller, 2011). The idea is that if leaders want to be effective they must work on all three levels in parallel.