Leadership for Intelligence Professionals   

Leadership in Management

(March 2009)

Textbook Readings

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 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.

In The Powers to Lead read:

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

            -Chapter 4, "Contextual Intelligence" sections on "Understanding Cultural Context", "Distribution of Power Resources" and "Information Flows". 

 

Supplemental Readings:  

 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.

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

-“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.

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

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

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

-“Great Minds Think Alike” by Carol Kennedy from Director of May 1998.
           -“Ideas that changed the century” by Carol Kennedy from Director of December 1998.            
          -“Memorable Gurus and Cutting-Edge Theories” from Association Management October 1999.
       

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.