February 2001
Table of Contents
Leading Comments
Leading Comments
Russ Volckmann
Introduction Welcome to Leadership Opportunity, a monthly e-journal about leadership in business and life. This e-journal is about leadership. It is about leadership in business and life. In both cases, leadership is both an individual and collective act. It is written for those who want to strengthen the quality of leadership for their businesses, organizations, clients […]
Leadership Quote
Leadership Quote
Editor
“I often say that leadership is deeply personal and inherently collective. That’s a paradox that effective leaders have to embrace.” ~Peter Senge, Shambhala Sun, January 2001
Leadership Coaching Tips
Leadership Coaching Tip
Russ Volckmann
A good place to begin when looking at leadership issues in a business organization is the context. Begin that by identifying the forces of change. Is there growing complexity? What kind – technological, market, workforce, competition, other? Is the pace of change shifting: slowing down, speeding up? How is the leader seeing and experiencing change […]
Feature Articles
Feature Article: Leadership Resources
Russ Volckmann
As an individual act, leadership is most often seen as heroic in some sense. I describe the models of leadership that prevail in business as heroic, because they treat the leader as the center of their way of thinking with the expectation that the leaders behavior determines the success of any enterprise. And leadership is […]