Psychologist Kurt Lewin identified three major leadership styles. Learn which best describes your leadership style in this 18 question quiz from about.com by clicking the link below:
While many different leadership theories exist today, most can be classified as one of eight major types:http://psychology.about.com/od/leadership/p/leadtheories.htm
New trends in Leadership:
Hot Ticket in B-School: Bringing Life Values to Corporate Ethics:
STUDENTS talk about Stewart D. Friedman, a management professor at the Wharton School, with a mixture of earnest admiration, gratitude and rock star adoration.
When they join his class, they commit to sharing intimate details with their classmates about their most important relationships, and many of them later credit Mr. Friedman with changing their lives. At least one alumnus has asked Mr. Friedman to train an entire company in his style of leadership and living.
It may not sound like the stuff of business school education. But Mr. Friedman and other like-minded leadership educators have tapped into a desire by both students and established entrepreneurs for more integration of their careers and personal lives.
Mr. Friedman’s philosophy is fairly straightforward. The fundamental premise is that leadership can exist in every person, whether at the top, middle or bottom of any group. Mr. Friedman also teaches that leadership should not be confined to work, but extended to one’s personal life, community involvement and family life.
In his class, Mr. Friedman guides students through exercises to identify their core values and to express ways that they are feeling out of sync with those values. Students then develop experiments intended to create what Mr. Friedman calls “four-way wins,” changes that will have positive effects in all aspects of their lives.
When they join his class, they commit to sharing intimate details with their classmates about their most important relationships, and many of them later credit Mr. Friedman with changing their lives. At least one alumnus has asked Mr. Friedman to train an entire company in his style of leadership and living.
It may not sound like the stuff of business school education. But Mr. Friedman and other like-minded leadership educators have tapped into a desire by both students and established entrepreneurs for more integration of their careers and personal lives.
Mr. Friedman’s philosophy is fairly straightforward. The fundamental premise is that leadership can exist in every person, whether at the top, middle or bottom of any group. Mr. Friedman also teaches that leadership should not be confined to work, but extended to one’s personal life, community involvement and family life.
In his class, Mr. Friedman guides students through exercises to identify their core values and to express ways that they are feeling out of sync with those values. Students then develop experiments intended to create what Mr. Friedman calls “four-way wins,” changes that will have positive effects in all aspects of their lives.
Click the link for the full article from the New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/29/business/smallbusiness/29shift.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/29/business/smallbusiness/29shift.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
