Leading Effectively e-Newsletter - February 2004 Issue
Reality LD: How Leaders Develop in the Context of Difference
Leader development is not a "one size fits all proposition." Yet, much of what is believed about leaders and their development ignores the reality of difference. Over the years, CCL has come to understand how difference — whether gender, race, culture or other defining characteristic — contributes to the experience of leading and learning.
This issue of the CCL e-newsletter is the second in a series based on the Center for Creative Leadership Handbook of Leadership Development. The newly released second edition addresses individual leader development, leader development in the context of difference, as well as developing leadership capacity in organizations. For more information, visit the CCL Publications section.
What's Different About Different?
Understanding leadership and leader development is often a process of finding commonality. But while CCL and others have identified many shared elements of the leadership development process, we've often asked the question, "But what is different?" ... (more...)
Beyond the Glass Ceiling: Understanding the Choices & Tradeoffs of High-Achieving Women
Women leaders are in the news again. More precisely, the relative lack of women leaders at the top of U.S. businesses and professions has generated publicity and heated debate about the roles of women in the workforce, in families and in society. Here, CCL illuminates the discussion based on extensive study of the choices and tradeoffs of high-achieving women. ... (more...)
Race & Leader Development: Assumption of Similarity, Reality of Difference
What role does race play in the leadership development? While many view leadership as color-blind, the reality is quite different according to CCL's Ancella Livers. ... (more...)
Crossing Cultures: Developing Leaders In a Global Context
Yet the need for leaders and their development is universal. But what leadership means; how it is practiced; and how it is developed may differ significantly across cultures. Here's how to start thinking about culture, difference and leadership development. ... (more...)
Global Managers: Leading Across Difference is the Norm
Working and leading amidst difference is the norm for global managers. They work simultaneously across borders of physical distance, country infrastructures and cultural expectations, in an ever-more-complex environment. So, what does it take to be a global manager? ... (more...)
Leadership Poll Results
 Kim Kanaga |
The focus of our January 2004 e-Newsletter was the development of teams, inquiring our reader's experience with team development. Over 300 readers responded. Kim Kanaga, director of CCL's Greensboro, North Carolina campus and expert on team-building, comments on the findings. (more...)
