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Do great leaders need experience? | Barking Up The Wrong Tree

Harvard Business School professor Gautam Mukunda’s new book Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter shows that the very best leaders (and the very worst) don’t take the traditional career path. Steve Jobs and Abraham Lincoln are two examples. http://www.bakadesuyo.com/2012/10/great-leaders-experience/
Forget vision, passion, and other B-school platitudes. Here are the nitty-gritty details on what makes leaders great. http://www.inc.com/jeff-haden/5-leadership-lessons-you-wont-learn-in-b-school.html

5 Leadership Lessons You Won't Learn in B-School

Leadership: 4 Traits of Incredibly Effective Delegators

You know you don't want to choke your staff with micromanagement minutiae. http://www.inc.com/vanessa-merit-nornberg/leadership-delegate-traits-incredibly-effective-delegators.html
Much of the content of this post comes from my girlfriend’s masters thesis on the subject though it is quite relevant to our industry as we seem to use many words wrong and have some misguided ideas.

Situational Leadership and Coaching | Greg Young

http://codebetter.com/gregyoung/2012/05/31/situational-leadership-and-coaching-2/
http://hbr.org/2012/06/leadership-is-a-conversation/ar/1 Artwork: Adam Ekberg, Arrangement #1, 2009, ink-jet print Listen to an interview with the authors of this article.

Leadership Is a Conversation

http://www.trainingmag.com/content/how-leadership-cross-training-works

How Leadership Cross-Training Works

Excerpt from “How to Be Exceptional” (McGraw-Hill) by the Zenger Folkman team.
This article was taken from the November 2011 issue of Wired magazine.

Lab notes #12: Leadership

http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2011/11/start/lab-notes-leadership
http://bhorowitz.com/2010/08/29/the-right-kind-of-ambition-2/ Some say that I’m they favorite But I aint hearing none of that I’m about my team ho Young money running back —Drake, 4 My Town Artist: Birdman Feat.

The Right Kind of Ambition

http://www.startwithmoxie.com/2010/07/five-words-that-define-leadership.html Volumes have been written on the topic of leadership, mostly by people with far more impressive credentials than mine.

Five words that define leadership - So you want to launch a business... (Build 20100722155716)

http://blogs.hbr.org/schwartz/2010/10/the-four-capacities-every-grea.html

The Four Capacities Every Great Leader Needs

by Tony Schwartz | 10:30 AM October 13, 2010
I’m surprised that some people have low or no desire for high influence, high impact leadership. It seems unnatural to me. However, I meet people that seem not to care.

From Low impact to High impact leadership

7 Tips for Developing Your Leadership Skills

Leadership is not something you are born with, it is something you learn.
October 5, 2010 by Marty Zwilling Creating and building a business is not a one-man show.

Nine Principles of Leadership for Entrepreneurs

Good Leaders: Tough and Tender

Everyone agreed George was a tough boss.

Responsibility and authority

Achievers in traditional organizations often say, "I want more authority."