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Leadership Code: Five Rules to Lead By Hardcover – January 8, 2009
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It's a question that has been tackled by thousands. In fact, there are literally tens of thousands of leadership studies, theories, frameworks, models, and recommended best practices. But where are the clear, simple answers we need for our daily work lives? Are there any?
Dave Ulrich, Norm Smallwood, and Kate Sweetman set out to answer these questionsto crack the code of leadership. Drawing on decades of research experience, the authors conducted extensive interviews with a variety of respected CEOs, academics, experienced executives, and seasoned consultantsand heard the same five essentials repeated again and again. These five rules became The Leadership Code.
In The Leadership Code, the authors break down great leadership into day-to-day actions, so that you know what to do Monday morning. Crack the leadership codeand take your leadership to the next level.
- Print length208 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherHarvard Business Review Press
- Publication dateJanuary 8, 2009
- Dimensions5.6 x 1 x 8.2 inches
- ISBN-109781422119013
- ISBN-13978-1422119013
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- ASIN : 1422119017
- Publisher : Harvard Business Review Press (January 8, 2009)
- Language : English
- Hardcover : 208 pages
- ISBN-10 : 9781422119013
- ISBN-13 : 978-1422119013
- Item Weight : 12.8 ounces
- Dimensions : 5.6 x 1 x 8.2 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #397,550 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #4,917 in Leadership & Motivation
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Kate is a founding partner at SweetmanCragun, a global management consulting and training firm. She is a “lifer” in the field of leadership development and its application to organizations and society. She has spent most of her time working internationally with clients. Kate is an entrepreneur, editor, researcher, writer, consultant, and coach. She recently returned from a three-year stint in Asia looking at leadership effectiveness in the 18 core Asian countries. Kate has done considerable work in the Middle East. She is a co-author of the fast-selling book The Leadership Code, published by Harvard Business Press. Kate is an expert chef, and invites all readers over to dinner when in Boston. She speaks rusty French.
David O. Ulrich is a noted expert on Human Resource Management. He is Professor of Business Administration and Director of the Human Resource Executive Program in the Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is also a co-founder and partner of The RBL Group, a human resources and leadership consultancy, and has carried out consultancy work with many Fortune 200 companies. He was the editor of Human Resource Management Journal for nearly a decade between 1990 and 1999. From 2003 to 2006 Dave Ulrich took a three-year sabbatical from teaching to act as President of the Canada Montreal Mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Ulrich consistently argues for a re-assessment of Human Resources. He is very clear about the huge value strategic HR can and should bring to an organization, and challenges practitioners to "either give value or give notice." A lot of the mundane "back office" aspects of HR, such as payroll and benefits administration have now been outsourced. This means that HR departments and their leaders are compelled to validate themselves and their existence. Individually HR managers must concentrate less on what they do and more on what they deliver. Their goal must be the development of value-added HR practices. His new book 'The Why of Work' (July 2010) addresses the much broader issue of motivation. Ulrich's previous titles include 'The HR Value Proposition' and 'Leadership Code'.
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From their literature review and body of interviews conducted, they con¬cluded that 60 to 70 percent of leadership effectiveness would be contained in the leadership code. Their analysis and synthesis result in a framework that they believe is accurate, logical, and useful. While many academics will turn up their noses at the lack of elegance in their research design, the book is likely to pass a more important test: perceived value and relevance to leaders on the firing line!
The Leadership Code essentially breaks down into five deceptively simple rules:
Rule 1: Shape the Future. This rule is embodied in the strategist dimension of the leader. Strategists not only envision a future, they help create it . As practical futurists, they figure out where the organization needs to go to succeed, they test these ideas pragmati¬cally against current resources (money, people, organiza¬tional capabilities), and they work with others to figure out how to get from the present to the desired future.
Rule 2: Make Things Happen. The execution dimen¬sion of leadership focuses on the question, "How can we ensure that we get to where we want to go?" Executors translate strategy into action. Executors understand how to make change happen, to assign accountability, to know which key decisions to take and which to delegate, and to make sure that teams work well together.
Rule 3: Engage Today's Talent. Leaders who optimize talent today answer the question, "Who goes with us on our business journey?" After getting "the right people on the bus, talent managers generate intense personal, professional, and organizational loyalty.
Rule 4: Build the Next Generation. Leaders who are human capital developers answer the question, "Who stays and sustains the organization for the next generation?" Just as good parents invest in helping their children succeed, human capital developers help future leaders to be successful.
Rule 5: Invest in Yourself. At the heart of the lead¬ership code--literally and figuratively--is personal proficiency. Effective leaders cannot be reduced to what they know and do. Who they are as human beings has everything to do with how much they can accomplish with and through other people. Leaders are learners: from success, failure, assignments, books, classes, people, and life itself.
The RBL Group has developed both self assessment and 360 degree feedback exercises to help readers know how well they exemplify The Leadership Code. The book is well-written, engaging and pragmatic. Cracking the leadership code might help you take your leadership to a higher level--and you don't have to worry about crazed monks trying to stop you from sharing your insights.
Robert M. Fulmer, Co-Author, The Leadership Advantage, Growing Your Company's Leaders