THOUGHT FOR THE DAY

Leadership

“Don't tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results. ” - George S. Patton

TOPIC OF THE DAY

True Leaders Are Also Managers

Tens of thousands of books have been written on leadership and there are several academic journals devoted entirely to the subject, including The Leadership Quarterly and The Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies. Perhaps the most definitive review and integration of the leadership literature was Bass and Stogdill's 1,200-page Handbook of Leadership, which was published in 1990 (and still does the best job of making sense of the literature, for my money). And if you really want a long book on leadership, you can get the four-volume Encyclopedia of Leadership, which at 2,120 pages weighs in at 15 pounds, and costs a whopping $800. Clearly, the task of reviewing the leadership literature — and acting on it as leader — isn't to understand it all (that is impossible), but to develop a point of view on the few themes that matter most.

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