This article by Morgan W. McCall, Jr.(USC) begins with seven reasonably sure bets about the role of experience in leadership development, ponders the reasons that what is known is so rarely applied, suggests some things that can be done to put experience at the center of development, and concludes with recommendations for practice and for research.
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Boardroom Realities: Building Leaders Across Your Board
The aim of the book Boardroom Realities by Jay Conger (Jossey-Bass, 2009) is to help you address the governance realities facing boardrooms today and to demonstrate that boardroom leadership and character make the primary difference in the performance of the board.
Resource Movement: Can We Predict Growth and Decline?
Leadership Pulse by Theresa M. Welbourne (CEO) is an on-going learning opportunity for leaders from around the world to share their ideas and thoughts on issues relevant to leaders in today’s ever changing business environment.
Make Human Capital a Source of Competitive Advantage
This article by Edward E. Lawler III (CEO) looks at four areas where human capital should have a major impact on design: corporate boards, leadership, the human resource department, and information practices.
Leadership Confidence: What Goes Down…Keeps Going Down
Theresa M. Welbourne (CEO) states that the problem we find is that when leader confidence erodes, then employee confidence declines.
Sharing Leadership on Corporate Boards: A Critical Requirement for Teamwork at the Top
Jay A. Conger (CEO) and Edward E. Lawler III (CEO) argue that critical to the success of a high performance board is the ability of its directors to share leadership and to work as a dynamic team.
Make Human Capital a Source of Competitive Advantage
This article by Edward E. Lawler III (CEO) looks at four areas where human capital should have a major impact on design: corporate boards, leadership, the human resource department, and information practices.
Crafting a Path Toward Mastery: Turning a Personal Leadership Development Plan into Something
Morgan W. McCall, Jr. (USC) attempts to describe an alternative approach to creating a personal plan for developing leadership ability.
Developing the Expert Leader
In this article, Morgan W. McCall, Jr. (USC) and George P. Hollenbeck (Hollenbeck and Associates) look at leadership through the lens of expertise and relate the findings of a wide range of research on experts, expertise, and expert performance to how we think about leaders and leadership development.
The Practice of Leadership: Developing the Next Generation of Leaders
This book (Edited by Jay A. Conger and Ronald E. Riggio, (Jossey-Bass, 2006)) includes contributions from top scholars who outline the best leadership practices for the benefit of the practicing leader.
What’s a Leadership Book, Anyway?
Nearly every author alive who has written a significant book on leadership gathered recently at Harvard’s Kennedy School to celebrate the career of the patriarch of their field, the redoubtable eighty-one year-old Warren Bennis.
Grooming for the Top Post and Ending the CEO Succession Crisis
Yan Zhang (Rice University) and Nandini Rajagopalan (USC) compare three different types of options and related processes of CEO succession: relay succession, non-relay inside succession, and outside succession.