Dean’s Executive Leadership Series
DELS hosts a variety of leading executives from a broad range of organizations.
Leadership
Leveraging Action Learning as a Talent Management Strategy during Economic Uncertainty
The current economic landscape affords the opportunity to develop leadership talent against a backdrop of genuine challenge and tangible uncertainty.
The Book Corner
The Book Corner offers reviews by Graziadio School faculty on a variety of books on business topics.
Great Leaders are Great Decision-Makers
Great leaders understand how to balance emotion with reason and make decisions that positively impact themselves, their employees, their customers and stakeholders, and their organizations.
Servanthood Leadership
Corporate Development Executive David M. Bowman draws on his more than 30 years in the aerospace and defense industry to discuss his definition of leadership, “connecting people to their future.”
Six Steps for Confronting the Emerging Leadership Succession Crisis
Battle a leadership-succession crisis with comprehensive talent-management systems to identify and develop high-potential leaders early in their careers.
Political Connections: The Missing Dimension in Leadership
This research focuses on three key dimensions of leadership: charismatic leadership, instrumental leadership, and political connections.
Discovering Leadership Potential
Firms need to develop “Authentic Visionary Leaders” by using the Leadership Style Inventory (LSI) and matching the results with specific job requirements.
Discovering Leadership Potential – Survey
An instrument to gauge your Leadership Style Inventory.
Discovering Leadership Potential – Evaluation Guidelines
Guidelines for evaluating whether you are a “commander,” “logical,” “imaginative,” or a “supportive” leader.
Strategic Leadership – Part Two
An overview of lessons in strategic leadership from a recent study of five benchmark organizations:Caterpillar, Cisco Systems, PepsiCo, PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) and Washington Group International.
Strategic Leadership
Today, business and governmental organizations face something of a “perfect storm” of problems that have profound implications for current and future leaders.
Emotional Dynamism: Playing the Music of Leadership
This article introduces the idea of Emotional Dynamism-a new framework for understanding how a leader can leverage the power of emotions.
The Leader’s Role in Strategy
This article specifically examines what the business leader does in the five major phases of the strategy-making/strategy-executing process.
From Michelangelo to the Modern Boardroom
All great and influential artists. exhibit vision, courage, and creativity—this article analyzes their applicability to the subject of leadership in general.