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Does the Servant Leadership Style Work?
While conventional forms of leadership are all about control, servant leadership places the needs of other people first and looks to transfer some of the power to them. A term coined by Robert K. Greenleaf in an essay published in 1970, ‘servant leadership’ is a...
Is the Participative Leadership Style a Good Way to Lead People?
In recent times, within business circles, the "participative leadership" concept has become a catch-phrase. If you follow company blogs about leadership, then you have most likely come across several posts and articles that discuss this specific style of leadership....
What is Executive Presence and How Do You Show It?
Have you ever known a person who exudes leadership qualities the moment they walk into a room? You instinctively know that this individual is in control when they begin talking, but why do you feel this way? You feel this way because of their executive presence. Here,...
Understanding the Laissez-Faire Leadership Style and What Makes It So Effective
Laissez-faire is a French word that translates into English as "leave alone". This implies letting things thing happen without any interference. Therefore, a laissez-faire leader would be someone with a “hands-off” approach to managing and leading followers or...
How Impactful Is The Charismatic Leadership Style?
Each style of leadership has a specific focus area. For example, some forms of leadership, such as democratic leadership, emphasize people's growth while others, like bureaucratic leadership, are focused on existing structures and hierarchies. However, a charismatic...
5 Ways to Stop a Blame Culture
A blame culture manifests when employees pass responsibility to others for mistakes or lack of accountability. Blame cultures reinforce themselves when managers blame direct reports or lower level employees rather than taking responsibility themselves. Taking...
Is an Autocratic Leadership Style Effective?
The autocratic leadership style, usually seen in big bureaucratic institutions, is also found in some small and medium sized companies with other organizational structures. This leadership style's main advantage is that managers and direct reports seldom disagree...
4 Leadership Styles that Unite Rather than Incite – Bobby Kennedy, We Need You Here Today
In this article, I describe the leadership styles of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. that helped calm rather than incite riots after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. that we can learn and apply to our current day conflicts.
What We Got Wrong About Culture Mapping
There is a lot we can get wrong about culture mapping. We define culture mapping for organizational change as the process that establishes the specific steps needed to change the culture of an organization to bring about improvements in employee behavior and productivity in a positive way. Here is what we got wrong about Culture Mapping and what we can do about it.
Best Practice Institute and Wiley’s Leader to Leader to Publish New World’s Most Loved Workplaces List
The Top Most Loved Workplaces will be recognized in a special December 2021 edition of the Hesselbein Forum’s Leader to Leader published by John Wiley and Sons NEW YORK—JAN 5, 2020—Louis Carter, CEO of Best Practice Institute (BPI) and Frances Hesselbein of the...
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