LeadingChangeWithoutAuthority

There seems to be a flurry of interest in change management by our readers - at least those words. In fact, over the years, a majority of our work with clients has been related to managing change initiatives - which is a major responsibility of leadership.

Think about it. Many change initiatives are across organizational boundaries, thus authority is limited for any manager or individual responsible for the initiative. At most, there might be some “dotted line” responsibility to the change agent. Therefore, leadership is required. The change agent must be able to (more…)

I enjoyed a 60 minute interview on February 15th by Wayne Hurlbert, host of Blog Business Success. There you can find a pretty thorough audio introduction of the book Leadership Made Simple: Practical Solutions to Your Greatest Management Challenges, including how the book came to be, some of the companies involved in the case studies and examples, description of the Framework for Leadership(TM) and example stories for each of the five steps of the Framework.

You’ll find it listed as Ed Oakley: Leadership Made Simple.

I think you might find it valuable and entertaining. Go listen to it!

Best regards,

Ed Oakley  http://www.enleadership.com/lmd/lmd_dmil.html