Kinds of Leadership Competencies

Websters Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary.

Montgomery Van Wart, Dynamics of Public Leadership: Theory and Practice, “Skills that Contribute to Leader Effectiveness, Chapter 5, page 128 and “Task Oriented Behaviors”, Chapter 6, Exhibit 6.1.

Desmond D. Martin and Richard L. Shell Management of Professionals; : Insights for Maximizing Cooperation;  “Successfully Managing the Professional, The Professional as a Manager”, Chapter 1.

Emotional Intelligence

Peter Salovey,  Harvard Business Review, January 2004.

Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence; “What Makes a Leader?”, Harvard Business Review 1998 .  “Leadership that Gets Results” Harvard Business  Review, March-April 2000.

John D. Mayer, Harvard Business Review, January 2004.

Goleman, Harvard Business Review January 2004.

Why Develop Your Emotional Intelligence?

Goleman “What Makes a Leader?”, Harvard Business Review 1998 and Jan. 2004;  “Leadership that Gets Results” Harvard Business  Review, March-April 2000.

Joseph S. Nye, The Powers to Lead  Chapter 3 “Types and Skills” and Appendix “A Dozen Quick Take-Aways”.

Van Wart, “Preface”.

Van Wart, “Task Oriented Behaviors”, Chapter 6, see Exhibit 6.1 and Chapter 7, see Exhibit 7.1.

Marshall Goldsmith, Patricia Wheeler, “Transparent Leaders” in Leadership Excellence November 2007. Marshall Goldsmith, “People Skills” in Leadership Excellence June 2007.

Nick Tasler, Lac D. Su, Jean Greaves in “Refined Feedback” in Leadership Excellence July 2008.

Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis and Annie McKee in Primal Leadership: Realizing the Power of Emotional Intelligence.

Van Wart, in “Social Skills”, Chapter 5.

Lieutenant General Walter F. Ulmer, Jr.  USA (Ret) in “Leadership Lessons at Division Command Level -2004”.

Major David S. Abrahams, U.S. Army, “Emotional Intelligence and Army Leadership: Give it To Me Straight! In Military Review March-April 2007.

Van Wart, “People Behavior”, Chapter 7.

Dale Carnegie in How to Win Friends and Influence People.  

Social Awareness: Understanding People

Maslow,  in  Richard L. Hughes, Robert C. Ginnett, and Gordon J. Curphy, "Understanding and Influencing Follower Motivation" in The Leader’s Companion, Chapter 44.

Stephen Covey, DIA course.

Lee G. Bolman and Terrence E. Deal  in Leading with Soul.

Hughes, Ginnett and Curphy, “Understanding and  Influencing Follower Motivation” and 

Editor, Harvard Business Review introducing Frederick Herzberg “One More Time: How Do You Motivate Employees in the Harvard Business Review January 2003.

Generational Differences

Various commentators on CBS 60 Minutes, 11 November 2007.

Flyleaf on book Generations: The History of America’s Future, 1584 to 2069.

William Straus and Neil Howe, Generations: The History of America’s Future, 1584 to 2069.

Newsweek 11 May-18 May 2009.

Strauss and Howe, Generations.  Students who find those ‘peer personality”-based forecasts of Strauss and Howe prescient are urged to get the entire book and read it, or certainly Chapters 1-5.  Then, if you are interested in American history read Chapters 6-10.  You will never view American history in the same way again.  Or, if you are interested in generational relationships today, read Chapters 11-13.  You will better understand the trends and tensions in U.S. society today. 

Morley Winograd and Michael Hais in Millennial Makeover: My Space, You Tube & the Future of American Politics quoted by Andrea Stone in USAToday 14 April 2009.

“The Kids are Alright” in The Economist November 15, 2008 reviewing the book Grown Up Digital: How the Net Generation is Changing the World by Don Tapscott.

Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams, Wikinomics.

Ken Blanchard in Masters of Success.

Director of National Intelligence, J. M. McConnell in “Remarks to George Washington University: Columbian College of Arts and Sciences Graduation”, 17 May 2008.

William Nolte, speech to the AFCEA Intelligence Committee printed in the Defense Intelligence Journal Vol. 14/1 2005.

“Managing the Facebookers” in The Economist January 3, 2009.

Jennifer Deal, “Generational Differences” in Leadership Excellence June 2007.

“Generation Y goes to work” in the Economist of January 3, 2009 citing a survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers published in December 2008.

Survey by Harrison Interactive reported in the Randstad 2001 North American Employee Review.

Survey conducted by Robert Starch and Sally Ring Research reported in the Randstad 2001 North American Employee Review.

Gender Differences

Sharon Begley “The Geography of Personality” in “On Science” in Newsweek, September 1, 2008. (No original source provided.)

In a 2001 report quoted by William Booth in an article “ Gender? It’s a Gray Area” in the Washington Post on 24 September 2006.

Elizabeth Weise, “Men, Women: Maybe we are different” in USAToday August 22, 2006.  Discussing the book The Female Brain by Louann Brizendine.  And “Science and Technology” in the Economist, August 5, 2006.

“Women slowly gain on Corporate America” by Del Jones in USAToday January 2, 2009.

Sharon Begley “Science” in Newsweek April 20, 2009.

Sandra Tsing Loh, “Should Women Rule?”  citing Susan Pinker in reviewing her book The Sexual Paradox: Men, Women and the Real Gender Gap: (among others) in The Atlantic November 2008.

Deborah Tannen in Talking from 9 to 5: How Women's and Men's Conversational Styles Affect Who Gets Heard, Who Gets Credit and What Work Gets Done.

 John Gray in Mars and Venus at Work.

Studies by Laura Cousino Klein of Pennsylvania State University reported by Karen S. Peterson in “To fight stress, women talk, men walk” in USAToday , August 7, 2000.

Weise,  in USAToday.

Survey by Pew Research Center of 1090 men and 1190 women between 16 June-16 July 2008 published in USAToday February 13, 2009.

Joseph Nye in the Powers to Lead.

Professional and Individual Differences

Martin and Shell, Management of Professionals, “Individuals and Groups: Their Needs and Behavior in Professional Work Organizations” Chapter 6.

Martin and Shell, Management of Professionals, “Motivating Today’s Professional” Chapter 8.

Motivating the Organization

Marcus Buckingham  “What Great Managers Do” in the Harvard Business Review March 2005.

Gary Neilsen and Bruce Pasternak in Results as quoted in “ A Survey of the Company”, “The X and Y Factors” in the Economist  of January 21st, 2006. 

Nigel Nicholson, “How to Motivate Your Problem People” in Harvard Business Review, February 2003.

Gallup Poll in USAToday,  10 May 2001.

Office of the Intelligence Community Chief Human Capital Officer (CHCO), Human Capital Survey, 2006, March 2007. 

Susan Annunzio, in e-Leadership.

John Maxwell in The Leader Within You.

Motivating the Individual

Marcus Buckingham  “What Great Managers Do” in the Harvard Business Review March 2005

Les Wallace and Jim Trinka “Performance Enhancement” in Leadership Excellence August 2008.  Also see Marcus Buckingham and Curt Coffman  in First Break All the Rules.

Martin and Shell, “Motivating Today’s Professional, I-Overview and Trends”, Chapter 8.

Czikszentmihalyi  research reported in the The Economist, 23 Dec. 2006.

James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner,  The Leadership Challenge: How to Get Extraordinary Things Done in Organizations.

General Perry Smith Leading….

Tom Peters and Nancy Austin in Leadership Excellence.

Based on H. Levinson, The Great Jackass Fallacy Harvard University Press: 1973.

Nigel Nicholson, “How to Motivate….”

Nido Qubein, "Ten Principles of Motivation" in Executive Excellence, October 2003.

Marshall Goldsmith and Mark Reiter What Got You Here Won’t Get You There.

Social Skills for Motivation

Ken Blanchard in The One Minute Manager.

Delegating

Lieutenant General Gus Pagonis USA (Ret) in Moving Mountains: Lessons in Leadership and Logistics from the Gulf War and in “Leadership in a Combat Zone” in Harvard Business Review, December 2001.

Martin and Shell in “Motivating Today’s Professional” Chapter 8.

“From He that Hath Not” in The Economist May 24, 2008.  Reporting on the work of Pamela Smith and colleagues at Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands published in Psychological Science.

Praise and Feedback

Tom Rath and Donald D. Clifton in How Full is Your Bucket.

James Kouzes and Barry Posner in Executive Excellence, November 2003.

Ken Blanchard in Gung Ho.

Amy Joyce in the “Business Section”,  Washington Post, 24 March 2002.

Coaching and Counseling

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

Communication

Martin and Shell in  “Building Effective Communications,  I- What’s Needed for Professionals” Chapter 7.

Van Wart in “Skills that Contribute to Leader Effectiveness”, Chapter 5.  Van Wart credits the quote as coming from T. L. Cooper and D. N. Wright eds., Exemplary Public Administrators: Character and Leadership in Government.

Terry Pearce in Listening Out Loud.

Martin and Shell in “Communication With a Professional”, Chapter 7.

Marshall Goldsmith, "Leadership Effectiveness: Provide feedback and follow up" in Executive Excellence, September 2003.

Martin and Shell in “Building Effective Communications, IV-Non-Verbal Communication” Chapter 7.

Time Management

Martin and Shell in “Decision Making and Time Management, VI-The Pro-Active Manager and Time Management” Chapter 5.

Peter Ducker.