Comments on: Harvard Business Review on Leadership http://www.mlview.org/harvard-business-review-on-leadership Sat, 03 Apr 2010 19:27:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Nataly Kelly http://www.mlview.org/harvard-business-review-on-leadership/comment-page-1#comment-114 Nataly Kelly Sat, 03 Apr 2010 19:27:20 +0000 http://mlview.org/harvard-business-review-on-leadership#comment-114 Another fantastic resource from HBR. <br /> <br />The article titled, "The Manager's Job: Folklore and Fact", by Henry Mintzberg, has been requested for reprint more than 22,000 times in the past two years. Mintzberg did a fascinating study of how managers worked to analyze behavior. <br /> <br />"What Leaders Really Do", by John Kotter, provides a wealth of helpful information. Among the passages I've underlined: <br /> <br />"Leadership complements management; it doesn't replace it..." <br /> <br />"Planning is a management process, deductive in nature... Setting a direction is more inductive..." <br /> <br />"One of the most frequent mistakes that overmanaged and underled corporations make is to embrace 'long-term planning' as a panacea for their lack of direction and inability to adapt to an increasingly competitive and dynamic business environment..." <br /> <br />"In a company without direction, even short-term planning can become a black hole capable of an infinite amount of time and energy." <br /> <br />"Leaders also regularly involve people in deciding how to achieve the organization's vision... This gives people a sense of control..." <br /> <br />All of the articles in this volume are helpful, but these two are the ones I found most interesting. Rating: 5 / 5 Another fantastic resource from HBR.

The article titled, “The Manager’s Job: Folklore and Fact”, by Henry Mintzberg, has been requested for reprint more than 22,000 times in the past two years. Mintzberg did a fascinating study of how managers worked to analyze behavior.

“What Leaders Really Do”, by John Kotter, provides a wealth of helpful information. Among the passages I’ve underlined:

“Leadership complements management; it doesn’t replace it…”

“Planning is a management process, deductive in nature… Setting a direction is more inductive…”

“One of the most frequent mistakes that overmanaged and underled corporations make is to embrace ‘long-term planning’ as a panacea for their lack of direction and inability to adapt to an increasingly competitive and dynamic business environment…”

“In a company without direction, even short-term planning can become a black hole capable of an infinite amount of time and energy.”

“Leaders also regularly involve people in deciding how to achieve the organization’s vision… This gives people a sense of control…”

All of the articles in this volume are helpful, but these two are the ones I found most interesting.
Rating: 5 / 5

]]> By: Murad Omar http://www.mlview.org/harvard-business-review-on-leadership/comment-page-1#comment-113 Murad Omar Sat, 03 Apr 2010 17:20:14 +0000 http://mlview.org/harvard-business-review-on-leadership#comment-113 This is a very nice book that collaborate on the difference between the managers role and the leaders role, it talks also about the today's organizations and how they are full of managers but with a few leaders. <br />Managers are necessary to handle day to day tasks, to plan in a certain direction but it needs a leader to set this direction! Rating: 5 / 5 This is a very nice book that collaborate on the difference between the managers role and the leaders role, it talks also about the today’s organizations and how they are full of managers but with a few leaders.

Managers are necessary to handle day to day tasks, to plan in a certain direction but it needs a leader to set this direction!
Rating: 5 / 5

]]> By: Lars Bergstrom http://www.mlview.org/harvard-business-review-on-leadership/comment-page-1#comment-112 Lars Bergstrom Sat, 03 Apr 2010 15:57:28 +0000 http://mlview.org/harvard-business-review-on-leadership#comment-112 The wide variety of articles on leadership covers well items from the basic topics such as the difference between managers and leaders to how someone can be both (and the tensions that can cause!). Two of the best articles were on how leaders really spend their time during the day and how leaders foster an environment in which other people can also be identified and brought forward as leaders. <br /> <br />I would've rated this five stars, but there are a couple of articles (on 'defining moments' and CEOs) that weren't a complete waste of time but seemed too far divorced from the typical leader within a company that I was surprised the HBR didn't find something more likely to be widely applicable to fill the space. Rating: 4 / 5 The wide variety of articles on leadership covers well items from the basic topics such as the difference between managers and leaders to how someone can be both (and the tensions that can cause!). Two of the best articles were on how leaders really spend their time during the day and how leaders foster an environment in which other people can also be identified and brought forward as leaders.

I would’ve rated this five stars, but there are a couple of articles (on ‘defining moments’ and CEOs) that weren’t a complete waste of time but seemed too far divorced from the typical leader within a company that I was surprised the HBR didn’t find something more likely to be widely applicable to fill the space.
Rating: 4 / 5

]]> By: Jack Reader http://www.mlview.org/harvard-business-review-on-leadership/comment-page-1#comment-111 Jack Reader Sat, 03 Apr 2010 13:56:48 +0000 http://mlview.org/harvard-business-review-on-leadership#comment-111 This book encapsulates the responsibilites of a leader and the diffirenciation between a leader and a manager. A leader is always in front... never in second place. Thats where managers are... because they are not as good, as the book states. Every manager should strive to be a leader. Rating: 5 / 5 This book encapsulates the responsibilites of a leader and the diffirenciation between a leader and a manager. A leader is always in front… never in second place. Thats where managers are… because they are not as good, as the book states. Every manager should strive to be a leader.
Rating: 5 / 5

]]> By: Pentti Lahti http://www.mlview.org/harvard-business-review-on-leadership/comment-page-1#comment-110 Pentti Lahti Sat, 03 Apr 2010 11:13:15 +0000 http://mlview.org/harvard-business-review-on-leadership#comment-110 I felt that the first three writers were the strongest. Mintzberg promotes an idea that leader is just a role in his advocated all mighty manager. Zaleznik brings this down with his idea that managers and leaders are different kind of people and talk about managerial mystique. But maybe best advice how to solve present leadership dilemma comes from Kotter, who says that companies should pick up talented individuals and then put them to grow into leaders through tough challenges. Rating: 3 / 5 I felt that the first three writers were the strongest. Mintzberg promotes an idea that leader is just a role in his advocated all mighty manager. Zaleznik brings this down with his idea that managers and leaders are different kind of people and talk about managerial mystique. But maybe best advice how to solve present leadership dilemma comes from Kotter, who says that companies should pick up talented individuals and then put them to grow into leaders through tough challenges.
Rating: 3 / 5

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