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Essential Resources on IT Leadership – Page 9

How to Lead from the Rear

Leaders are expected to take charge – lead from the front. So, can a leader be effective leading from the rear? The author makes a case for just that and this article provides tips on being effective leading from the rear.

Creating a Teflon Leader

This article presents a framework to assess your resilience – how do you respond to life's obstacles? – and create a resilient personality that calmly navigates the choppy seas of trouble that are inevitable in anyone's career or life.

The Evolving Role of the Global Leader

This analysis provides a detailed exploration of how global leadership roles are changing, offering insights into the competencies needed to lead effectively in the future.. Excellent Read!

Understanding IT Leadership: An Analysis of CIO Priorities

This analysis investigates how CIOs prioritize leadership attributes using Q-methodology. It reveals four distinct leadership styles, providing valuable insights for IT leaders aiming to enhance their leadership strategies and drive organizational success.

Emotionally Intelligent Leadership

The author defines emotional intelligence, its critical role in leadership and how to use an emotional intelligence inventory to identify and fix issues with leadership performance.

Aligning Employees with Organization’s Core Values

Developing a high-performing organization starts with defining its core values &ndash; the <span style="line-height: 1.6em;">actions and behaviors essential to the organization&rsquo;s success. To do this successfully,&nbsp;</span><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">you must engage your employees in a series of conversations about what it means to be&nbsp;</span><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">a values-driven organization, what behaviors support the core values, and how important&nbsp;</span><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">employees are in the daily realization of the core values.&nbsp;This tool highlights some of the techniques used to accomplish that.</span>

Identifying Troubled Organizations

What are the signs that an organization is in trouble? What are the symptoms of a&nbsp;<span style="line-height: 1.6em;">company that has lost its way? Based on the ideas of W. Edwards Deming, "The Seven&nbsp;</span><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">Deadly Diseases" are the things you need to look for &ndash; whether you&rsquo;re managing a&nbsp;</span><span style="line-height: 1.6em;">company &ndash; or simply investing in it.</span>

Empowering Employees to Innovate

This tool provides a way for employees to suggest ideas for improvement (a new market to go into, a new product to sell, or a new way of doing business). Using a simple template, it asks for five pieces of information that are important in evaluating whether the idea has merit.

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