LeadershipNow 140: July 2009 Compilation

This is a share from LeadershipNow blog.  What a cool compilation of tweets they compiled over the course of July!  There a ton of links to some amazing articles or research.  All this talk about journalism being dead seems bunk to me.  These links shared in some of the tweets take you to some great journalistic articles and other leadership thoughts. Enjoy!

• Releasing control and sharing influence with others may be the one most difficult changes to make in your leadership style. ~JR Kerr
• RT @UtneReader: Creativity it’s surprisingly orderly, it can be learned http://bit.ly/l581L Think about problems as abstract
• Is your reluctance to follow undermining your leadership?
• Ultimately, leadership is about life.
• Grow yourself. You can’t separate yourself as a person from yourself as a leader.
• RT @davidzinger: Employee Engagement Zingers. A tad of Monday morning twitter humor to start your work. http://bit.ly/1xNbm4
• RT @SirHendrix: you are acting opportunistic because you don’t know your purpose, you don’t focus, and you have no strategy.
• Live through the unfair things, develop the hide to not let it bother you & keep your eyes focused on what you have to do. Hank Greenberg
• Identify the influencers. Work through them, not around them. Invite them, don’t inform them.
• We build who we are by building up others.
• Excellent Piece WSJ: Celebrity Culture vs. The Right Stuff
• Time to get your strategy right: It’s not just that markets have changed. Your organisation has changed. FT http://bit.ly/1YLaIt
• Time Magazine: No Charisma? Don’t Worry, You Can Still Be a Leader http://ow.ly/hJKz
• Turnaround Question: What do I want this situation to become?
• Cronkite: “A career can be called a success if one can look back and say: ‘I made a difference.'” He made a difference.
• RT @donhornsby: They Never Said That! | U.S. Presidents | Reader’s Digest http://ff.im/5kHFS
• A Farewell to Harms WSJ http://bit.ly/15UkE4
• Everyone is normal until you get to know them better. ~Manfred Kets de Vries
• Every despot must have one disloyal subject to keep him sane. ~GB Shaw
• As a leader, if you are not encouraging candid feedback, you are just asking for trouble. Do you have a court jester?
• RT @perrynoble NEVER allow the voice of those who know you the least to shape you the most!
• Ideas from under your nose: While networks of outsiders are a fashionable concept, those looking for innovation… FT: http://tinyurl.com/nwd4qf
• RT @pamslim: The big 5 mid-year game-changing questions http://bit.ly/CWcV3 Good questions to ask yourself
• Interviews with top business authors during FT Press & Wharton School Publishing Author Week http://ow.ly/haRj
• Otto Scharmer- Leader: All people who engage in creating change or shaping their future, regardless of their formal positions
• If you can’t live through adversity, you’ll never be good at what you do. ~Hank Greenberg
• Managers who act like owners: Extravagant restaurant bills and huge taxi fares might not endear you to the peopl.. http://tinyurl.com/lesxgz
• RT @Ventureneer: Leadership can be learned :: says http://bit.ly/XNQJq
• Making History > David McCullough WSJ http://tinyurl.com/kumpdg
• The Fall of the Workplace Jerk ?? WSJ http://ow.ly/gn6j