Leadership for Intelligence Professionals   

Introduction

Bernard Bass “Historical Views of Leadership” in The Leader’s Companion Chapter 9.

What is a Good Follower?

Robert E. Kelly, “In Praise of Followers” in The Leader’s Companion, Chapter 31.

Joseph C. Rost,  “Leaders and Followers are the People in this Relationship” in  The Leader’s Companion, Chapter 30.

Joseph S. Nye in the Powers to Lead, Chapter 1 “Leadership”

Nye, Appendix “A Dozen Quick Take-Aways”.

Max DePree in Leadership is an Art.

Gary Wills, Certain Trumpets.

Kelly, “In Praise of Followers”.

Rost, “Leaders and Followers….”

Patrick L. Townsend and Joan E. Gephardt in Five Star Leadership.

See “Every Act Stengthens” posted 8 December 2008 on Robin Sharma’s blog Leadership Without a Title.   www.robin.sharma.com.  

Rost, “Leaders and Followers…”

Michael Useem, “ Leading Up” in Executive Excellence.

Sal Marino, “Followers Create the Best Leaders” in Industry Week (IW), 2 Nov. 1998.

The Core Traits and Other Qualities of Good Followers

Kelly, “In Praise of Followers”.

Ira Chaliff in  The Courageous Follower: Standing Up to and for Our Leaders. 

Stephen Lundin and Lynne Lancaster  in Government Executive,  January 1991.

Paul E. Teague in design news, March of 2002.

Staff Officers as Partners in the Leadership Process

General Perry Smith in Assignment Pentagon.

First, Emphasize the Development of Your Core Leadership Traits

Captain Ronald E. Ratcliff USN (Ret), “Becoming an Officer of Consequence” in the Joint Forces Quarterly, issue 44, 1st quarter 2007.

Observe Leaders Both Good and Bad

Acquire a Mentor

Ratliff, “Becoming an Officer of Consequence”.

Robert Gates, “Reflections on Leadership” in Parameters Summer 2008.  See also Mark Perry, Partners in Command.

Dwight D. Eisenhower in At Ease: Stories I Tell to Friends.

Carlo D'Este , Eisenhower: A Soldier's Life .

Beverly Kaye, “Fast Track Mentoring” in Executive Excellence, May 2003.

Stephen L. Cohen, “New Leaders: Coach Them for Success in Leadership Excellence, 10 October 2008.

Ratliff, “Becoming an Officer of Consequence”.

Begin to Develop Your Long-Term Professional  Network

Hermina Ibarra and Mark Hunter, “How leaders Create and Use Networks”  in the Harvard Business Review, Jan. 2007.

Bill George in True North

Tim Weiner, Legacy of Ashes

John Hattendorf in The Evolution of the U.S. Navy's Maritime Strategy, 1977-1986 , Naval War College Newport Papers #19.

Seek Opportunities to Lead

Colonel Phillip S. Melinger, USAF, “The Ten Rules of Good Followership” in Military Review, August 1994.

Nye in The Powers to Lead citing Richard Hauss (another experienced national security professional) in the Bureaucratic Entrepreneur: How to Be Effective in an Unruly Organization for quote by Richard Armitage.

Speak Up

James Clapper, LTG USAF (Ret.) speaking to students of the Joint Military Intelligence College, Spring 2000.

Kelly, “In Praise of Followers”.

Warren Bennis, various.

Lynn R. Offerman in “When Followers Become Toxic” in Harvard Business Review 2004.

Robert Gates “Reflections on Leadership”.

William J. Holland, Jr., RADM USN (Ret.) “Dissent is Not Disloyalty”  Proceedings of the U.S. Naval Institute, July 2003.

General P. X. Kelly, USMC in Commencement Address to the graduating class of Norwich University, 1984.

Geoffrey M. Bellman  in Getting Things Done When You are Not in Charge.

Adapted from “Courage as a Skill”, Harvard Business Review, Jan. 2007.

Adapted from Rushworth Kidder.

Editor “The Tests of a Leader: Courage as a Skill” in Harvard Business Review January 2007.

Quoted by Catherine Rampell, “Whistle-blowers tell of cost of conscience” in USAToday November 24, 2006.

 The Bad Boss

Col. George E. Reed, USA, “Toxic Leadership” in Military Review, July-August 2004.

Adapted from Stanley Bing, Crazy Bosses: Revised and Updated.

John J. Gabarro and John P. Kotter, “Managing Your Boss” in  Harvard Business Review  Jan. 2005.

John Hoover in How to Work for an Idiot: Survive and Thrive Without Killing Your Boss.

Ron Suskind,  hThe One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America’s Pursuit of its Enemies Since 9/11.