Managers are people who do things right, while leaders are people who do the right thing.
Warren Bennis, Ph.D. "On Becoming a Leader"
- Leadership and Coaching
- Strategos
- Leadership Levels Charismatic - Transformational - Relational - Transactional
- "Twelve O'Clock High" A classic film on leadership, used in business managment training courses. It illustrates all four levels.
- "Sands of Iwo Jima" John Waynes famous movie speach. A transactional level example.
- Jim Collins
- Idea Laboratory Level 5 Leadership - First Who, Then What - Confront the Brutal Facts - Hedgehog Concept - Building your Company's Vision
- "Good to Great" This book explains how some businesses use the Idea Laboratory and keep pushing the flywheel to become great and avoid a Death Sprial.
- Coach John Wooden
- Pyramid of Success The core is: Mental-Physical-Moral Training, Skills Developement, and Team Spirit. The foundation is Industriousness and Enthusiasm.
- "Wooden" by John Wooden. A lifetime of reflections on how you can be a winner by always making an effort to do your very best.
- Collin Powell on Leadership “Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible.”
- The Leadership Paradox “No one has yet figured out how to manage people effectively into battle; they must be led,”
- The Art and Science of Leadership A Leadership Guide
- After Action Reviews "The Army's After Action Review (AAR) is arguably one of the most successful organizational learning methods yet devised." - Peter Senge
- SONSHI - Sun Tzu and the Art of War Strategy Site What it Takes to be a Leader
- The Magic of Self-Directed Work Teams: A Case Study in Courage and Culture Change
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