Leadership articles cover the practice of leading people, teams and organisations, from self-leadership and leading teams to leading change and complexity. They draw on research and practical frameworks to help leaders make better decisions and build trust. Browse this category to find leadership ideas you can apply this week.
Book summary of Stewardship
Maturity Mapping overview and its connection to cynefin and Wardley mapping
Link to a stakeholder mapping process
A series of blogs developed as tools for leaders from the Wharton Business School: https://whartonleadership.wordpress.com/2010/08/26/nano-tools-for-leaders/#more-64 Visual by Mara C one of the Drawify Team.
Link to an interesting article on productivity.
Link to some nice visual templates on storytelling
Link to the issue on Sustainable Leadership from Developing Leaders Quarterly
Link to a MITSloan article on collaboration failure
Link to the free self assessment to support reflection on career
Article link that explores "Connection before content"
Saving for later...... On Monday, I had the honour to talk to Sue Borchardt. Do not let her twitter bio "mereologist in training" fool you, Sue is a true polymath despite the fact she did not permit herself to use that name. In the video, Sue covers lots of important aspects of using Wardley Mapping for personal development, such as searchin [...]
Read once and saving for a deeper read ' reflection: Flexuosity untangled – Cognitive Edge — Read on www.cognitive-edge.com/flexuosity-untangled/
How to deal with Polarizing Topics in difficult conversations
Saving article for future reading https://engineering.atspotify.com/2014/09/16/squad-health-check-model/
Saving for reading https://www.epicpeople.org/sensemaking-in-organizations/ Follow on article: https://www.epicpeople.org/sensemaking-methodology/
Held to read the complete series later,,, This is the fourth in my series of Playing to Win Practitioner Insights (PTW/PI). The first was The Role of Management Systems in Strategy, the second was Is the Opposite of Your Choice Stupid on its… — Read on roger-78069.medium.com/strategy-is-what-you-do-not-what-you-say-a6e483840557
Saving for later. The ideas don't seem radical, but certainly not common practice https://medium.com/@drsaraschung/radical-listening-to-improve-understanding-of-system-dynamics-f1bacee8c875
Saving this for future reading.. https://www.ccl.org/articles/leading-effectively-articles/what-is-psychological-safety-at-work/?utm_campaign=1-LeadersAtAllLevels%2C2-LE_Article%2C3-Custom&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&s=09
Article on Adaptive Leadership from HBR
Slide deck showing what is covered each week in B329
Plotting Strategy in a Dynamic World — Read on sloanreview.mit.edu/article/plotting-strategy-in-a-dynamic-world/
Interesting research on change design, support and evaluation
A pretty long read, so Savin for later..The pandemic is an unprecedented opportunity – seeing human society as a complex system opens a better future for us all — Read on aeon.co/essays/complex-systems-science-allows-us-to-see-new-paths-forward
Interesting tips on virtual facilitation
Link to Julian's new 100 days process on curiosity
A good article that outlines the Treacy value disciplines strategy model
Article on engagement in Covid-19 times
Article on future planning - futurist come model
Link to article: Leadership and the small group
Link to a feedback process from Dr Gervase Bushe
Link to PDF: designwithdialogue.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/peterblock.pdf The following also supports the ideas here: http://www.chaosmanagement.com/images/stories/pdfs/Notes%20on%20Peter%20Block%27s%20book%20on%20Community.pdf As does http://kr.mnsu.edu/~jp5985fj/courses/230/Block.doc
Lost this and found again, so saving... https://tasshin.com/blog/towards-burja-mapping/
Link to ebook on senior female leadership pipelines
An interesting article and supporting resources (documents & PDFs) on distributed decision making
Link to article with four models that look at facets of devolved decision making / sense making.
GUIDE TO ALLYSHIP An open source starter guide to help you become a more thoughtful and effective ally. — Read on guidetoallyship.com/
Some interesting points in this, so holding here for later reading...Read to know why we need a more thoughtful way of making sense of our emerging chaos and uncertainty — Read on www.peoplematters.in/article/life-at-work/finding-simplicity-in-chaos-beyond-vuca-25159
My work at The National Lottery Community Fund and beyond involves hosting people in sensemaking processes. Good sensemaking is important for any group or team who are trying to make sense of the… — Read on medium.com/@phoebetickell/sensemaking-101-tips-for-improving-your-sensemaking-in-a-time-of-confusion-c2399a5f9981
A link to the work done by Michelle Buchholz on Visual Policy Analysis
Article link: How to foster ‘shoshin’
Link to article: The Futures Cone, use and history
Link to the book leading and managing people in the dynamic organisation
Article to read later: Chaos Theory says that organizations are "complex adaptive systems" and that through this lens, we can build emergent, adaptive and resilient organizations. Read on here think-boundless.com/chaos-theory/
Saving for later: how trust in groups works, and why it matters — Read on www.shanesnow.com/teamwork/psychological-safety
A sketchnote from a session by Pierluigi Pugliese
A paper by Steve Munby on the future of leadership development in the education sector.
Link to Big 5 test by Jordan B Peterson and supporting resources
A paper from MDV on VUCA
A link to a page with a number of articles on VUCA.
The Recovery Star developed by the Association of Mental Health Providers (formely the Mental Health Providers Forum), is an outcomes measure which enables people using services to measure their own recovery progress, with the help of mental health workers or others. Recovery Star | Mental Health Partnerships:
