Leadership for Intelligence Professionals   

Leadership in Management

(January 2010)

Textbook Readings

In Dynamics of Leadership in Public Service, read:

            -Chapter 1, “What Should a Leader Focus On”, pages 14-17.

          -Chapter 1, “Leadership versus Management”, page 21.

          -Chapter 2, “Leader Assessments”, pages 33-54.

          -Chapter 6, “Monitoring and Assessing Work”, pages 160-163.

-Chapter 8, “Performing General Management Functions”, “Decision Making”, Managing Organizational Change”, “Conclusion”, pages 254-272.

Study: Management of Professionals: Insights for Maximizing Cooperation.  This one book that gives a balanced treatment to “Leadership in Management”.

There are  three chapters specifically on management competencies:

-Chapter 2, “Planning and Forecasting”

-Chapter 3, “Organizing and Staffing”

-Chapter 4. “Directing and Controlling

There is one chapter on a competency needed by both Leaders and managers:

          -Chapter 5: “Decisionmaking and Time Management”

There are 5 chapters on competencies  considered to be leadership competencies in this course:

          -Chapter 6: “Individuals and Groups: Their Needs and Behavior….”

          -Chapter 7: “Building Effective Communications”

          -Chapter 8: “Motivating Today’s Professional”

          -Chapter 9: “Leading Professionals”

          -Chapter 10: “Change Processes in the Professional Environment”

In The Powers to Lead read:

-Chapter Chapter 3, “Types and Skills” sections on “Organizational Capacity” and “Machiavellian Skills”.

–Chapter 4, “Contextual Intelligence” “Understanding Cultural Context”, “Distribution of Power Resources”, Information Flows”.

Supplemental Readings:  (These articles are all easily accessible via the Proquest, Ebsco or Infotrac services usually available in your organizational or public library.)

Articles from 2009 

-“Lead and Manage: Using the Balanced Scorecard” by Robert S. Kaplan in Leadership Excellence, Oct. 2009.

Leading and Managing

-“Leaders and Managers: Are They Different?" (1977) by Abraham Zaleznick, reprinted in Harvard Business Review,  January 2004.
-"What Leaders Really Do", by John P. Kotter (1990) in Harvard Business Review, December 2001.

-“Reflections on Effective Public Management” by Doc Cooke (a retired naval officer and the long-time Administrator of the Headquarters of the Department of Defense and Manager of the in Pentagon building.) in Public Manager, Summer 2000.

-“Enough Leadership” by Henry Mintzberg in Harvard Business Review, November 2004.

Identifying the Cause of Failure or Need for Improvement

-“The Work of Leadership” by Ronald A. Heifetz and Donald L. Laurie in Harvard Business Review, September 2001.

Management Concepts

-For a history of management concepts, go here____  (http://ollie.dcccd.edu/mgmt1374/book_contents/loverview/management_history/mgmt_history.htm

-“Reinventing Management” by Gary Hamel and Lowell Bryan in Leadership Excellence of December 2007.

Organizational Culture

-“The Power of Culture”, by O. Mark Marcussen, from Executive Excellence, Oct. 2003.

-“Cultural Intelligence” by P. Christopher Earley and Elaine Mosakowski in Harvard Business Review, October 2004.

For Military

-“Management is a Vital Part of Leadership” by Captain Kirk L. Freund, USMC in the U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, November 1994.

-"Leadership and Management" by LT Jason Hudson, USNR, Proceedings of the U.S. Naval Institute, October 2001.

-“Occupations, Cultures and Leadership in the Army and Air Force” by George R. Mastroianni in Parameters, Winter 2005/2006.