Learn from the acknowledged leaders and great minds in the fields of management, business and psychology. Biographical information indexed by name, along with key guru written articles.
Warren Bennis is another of the venerable senior management experts who has had a huge impact on management practice and theory, particularly performance management. Warren Bennis is also known for his insight on leadership.
One of the new generation of management researchers and experts. Jim Collins jettisoned a traditional academic career at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business - where he received the Distinguished Teaching Award - to pursue his research interests, founding his own management research laboratory in his hometown of Boulder, Colorado.
Jim has devoted more than a decade of research to studying enduring great companies - how they grow, how they attain superior performance, and how good companies can become great companies - during which time he has authored or co-authored four books including Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies, co-authored with Jerry I. Porras.
Peter Drucker is one of the world's most respected thinkers on management and society. He has a brimming lifetime of wisdom to share and expertise that reaches well beyond the confines of the world´s largest companies. He is the ultimate guru to generations of executives and students of management theory, of how organizations succeed, and why they fail.
Irish born Charles Handy is a prolific and recognized writer on commentator on management, organizations, and education. Learn more about him and his work here.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter is probably the most prominent woman in the field of management and organizational thought. Author of a number of books including The Change Masters, and When Giants Learn To Dance, she is best known for her work on change management.
While Maslow's work initially had little to do with the workplace or management, and was part of the humanistic psychology movement, it's probably one of the most well known bits of psychology applied to the workplace. Overly simplistic, and even inaccurate, his "theory" of self-actualization and hierarchy is still prominent.
Douglas McGregor is best known for his ideas on Theory X and Theory Y approaches to management, which he outlined in 1960 in The Human Side of Enterprise. One of the most enduring and well known management concepts.
One of the new breed of organizational and personal development experts, Peter Senge is best known for his books on "The Fifth Discipline", and "The Dance of Change". Learn more about Senge's work here.
Many management gurus come from a theoretical or academic background. Jack Welch made his mark through his work, particularly heading up General Electric. Certainly controversial, but very successful, learn more about Jack Welch, his methods, and influence.
By Bruce Tuckman
- This paper presents a model of motivation for achievement that includes three generic motivational factors that influence outcome attainment : (1) attitude or belief about one%u2019s capability to attain the outcome; (2) drive or desire to attain the outcome; (3) strategy or techniques employed to attain the outcome.
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By John Schermerhorn Jr.
- "It is not enough to describe your leadership style or indicate your intentions. A Situational Leader assesses the performance of others and takes the responsibility for making things happen." - Hersey Paul Hersey is known internationally as an educator, trainer, lecturer, and conference leader
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By Daniel Goleman
- s an investigator, writer, and teacher, Daniel Goleman has been at the forefront of original thinking on individual and organizational performance for well over a decade. His best-selling books, Emotional Intelligence and Working with Emotional Intelligence, sparked an explosion of interest and research on how emotions affect performance. His latest book, Primal Leadership: Realizing the Power of Emotional Intelligence, with coauthors Richard Boyatzis and Annie McKee, brings together recent work in psychology, neuroanatomy, group behavior, and organizational performance to present powerful new insights on leadership.
Leader to Leader was able to sit down with Dan recently to discuss how leaders can improve team performance. Along the way, Dan introduced us to a term we had never encountered before, the "resonant team."
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By Jon Katzenbach
- ost top executives pay lip service to their "team at the top" but achieve only a small portion of the actual team performance potential of the senior leadership group. Others, who champion a team approach at all levels, become frustrated that they cannot run the company more as a team. Both extremes are missing the point: real team efforts at the top of large organizations have performance value only when applied to legitimate team opportunities. Katzenbach talks about the importance of teamwork at the TOP of organizations, where executives work together in coordinated teams.
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