Ideas for Leaders

This page highlights some of our favorites, and you can explore further on the books and newsletters pages. Our links page lists organizations with additional resources.

Planning Guide for Leaders

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Articles

All of our newsletters, written to provide frameworks, tools, and resources for leaders, are available at our site. This page offers selected articles listed by category. For a complete archive or to subscribe, please visit the newsletters page.

Coaching and developing leaders

"Providing Feedback is a Leadership Key" (Volume 5, Number 2)
Give feedback in ways that motivate people to improve
"Remembering to Do What Matters" (Volume 4, Number 2)
Taking time for reflection, guided by a coach

Continuous improvement

"Finding Points of Leverage" (Volume 7, Number 3)
How do you find the critical few places to focus on?
"Making Improvement Continuous" (Volume 7, Number 1)
Improving has to be second nature throughout the organization

Leading change

"Begin with the End in Mind" (Volume 7, Number 2)
How do you find the right solution to what you think is going wrong in your organization?
"Laying Groundwork for Change" (Volume 1, Number 4)
Reckoning with loss as part of change initiatives

Managing conflict

"Stuck in an Ice Floe" (Volume 3, Number 1)
Talk across difference and imagine beyond barriers to think creatively
"How's Your Conflict Management System?" (Volume 2, Number 3)
Understand and reform your organization's ways of dealing with conflict

Putting diversity to work

"Leaving People Out" (Volume 2, Number 1)
Locking people out at four gateways to organizations

Strategic thinking and planning

"Creating Strategic Know-How" (Vol 8, Number 3)
How both ongoing strategic thinking and a concrete, formal plan help your organization
"Strategic Planning as a Cycle of Learning" (Volume 3, Number 2)
Make strategic thinking second nature in your organization

Tools for teams

"Resource for a Learning Organization" (Volume 2, Number 2)
Improve dialogue skills, decisions, and your organization's agility
"Consensus Decision-making" (Volume 6, Number 2)
Decisions stick when you develop true consensus