Contents

1. Smart LEADER

1.1.   Character and People Skills

Character and Personality of Highly Effective People

The Tao of Influencing People

Coaching Yourself

1.2.   Technology of Achievement

COCA Principle of Achievement

The Tao of Achievement

Failure as a Stepping Stone to Success

Creative Problem Solving (CPS): Reframing

1.3.   Leadership Skills

Differences Between What Managers and Leaders Do

12 Effective Leadership Roles

Best Practices: Welch’s 4Es of Leadership

Leadership Attributes: What Leaders Are, Know, and Do

Inspirational Leadership: 10 Roles

2. Smart COMPANY

2.1.   Balanced Business System

The Tree of Business

6Ws of Business Success

Corporate Vision

Balanced Business System

Innovation Strategies for Top-line and Bottom Line Growth

Balancing Dynamic Organizational Dichotomies

The Tao of Business Success

Business BLISS: Balance – Leadership – Innovation – Synergy – Speed

Business Model: 1+6 Components

Extended Enterprise

Business Architect

Cross-functional Excellence

2.2.  Winning Organization

Corporate Capabilities

Shared Values

Strategies for Building a Growth Culture

New Company-Employee Partnership

The Tao of Employee Empowerment

Employee Satisfaction

Employee Motivation

Team Building: a Dream Team

Creating Cross-functional Teams

Fast Company

The Wheel of Knowledge Management

Three Types of Knowledge Organizations: Learning, Teaching, Coaching

2.3.   Synergized Business Processes

Best Practices: Characteristics of the Most Successful Companies

Process Management: Shift from Functional to Cross-functional Model

Eight Essential Principles of EBPM

Service-Profit Chain

Lean Production: Removal of Waste Activities

Quality Management: 8 Rules

Aligning IT and Business

11 Traits of a True IT Leader

3. Smart STRATEGIES

3.1.   Enterprise Strategies

Three Hierarchical Levels of Strategy

Strategic Analysis: 5 Questions To Answer

Strategic Management: Resource-based View

Sustainable Growth Strategies

Two Corporate Strategy Logics: Strategy Pyramid vs. Strategy Stretch

Choosing Between Strategy and Opportunity Approach

Strategy Programming vs. Strategy Innovation

3.2.   Competitive Strategies

Competitive Strategies

Sustainable Competitive Advantage: Synergy of Capabilities

Four Categories of Business Tactics

Synergistic Marketing and Selling

3.3.   Strategic Achievement

Success Rates and Major Impeding Factors

Strategic Achievement: Thinking × Action × Learning

Strategic Intent

Dynamic Planning

Launching a Crusade

Leading Change: 8 Stages

4. Smart MANAGEMENT

4.1.   New Management Model

Shift from Management to Leadership

Three Common Traits of Great Corporate Leaders

The Tao of Managerial Leadership

Managing Knowledge Workers

Three Manager's Skill Sets: Manager – Leader – Coach

The Tao of Change Management

4.2.   Results-based Leadership

Results-based Leadership

Strategic Leadership

Business Synergies Approach to Project Management

80/20 Thinking

Employee Performance Management: Holistic Approach

Entrepreneurial Leaders: Specific Attributes

Inspiring People

Performance Management: Balanced Scorecard

4.3.   25 Lessons from Jack Welch

Success Story: Creating the World's Most Competitive Enterprise

Lessons from Jack Welch

Lead More, Manage Less  

Lead

See Change as an Opportunity

Build a Winning Organization  

Harness Your People for Competitive Advantage  

Build the Market-Leading Company  

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"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it." – Dwight D. Eisenhower

Leadership Defined

Leadership is the process of directing the behavior of others toward the accomplishment of some common objectives. It is influencing people to get things done – willingly! – to a standard and quality above their norm to achieve a shared stretch goal. As an element in social interaction, leadership is a complex activity involving a process of influence; actors who are both leaders and followers, and a range of possible outcomes – the achievement of goals, but also the commitment of individuals to such goals, the enhancement of group cohesion and the reinforcement of change of organizational culture.

What is Leadership? Three simple one-line answers by Paul Taffinder

1. The easy answer: leadership is getting people to do things they have never thought of doing, do not believe are possible or that they do not want to do.

2. The leadership in organizations answer: leadership is the action of committing employees to contribute their best to the purpose of the organization.

3. The complex (and more accurate) answer: you only know leadership by its consequences – from the fact that individuals or a group of people start to behave in a particular way as result of the actions of someone else.

Effective Leadership as a Source of Competitive Business Advantage

Leadership is imperative for molding a group of people into a team, shaping them into a force that serves as a competitive business advantage. Leaders know how to make people function in a collaborative fashion, and how to motivate them to excel their performance. Leaders also know how to balance the individual team member's quest with the goal of producing synergy – an outcome that exceeds the sum of individual inputs. Leaders require that their team members forego the quest for personal best in concert with the team effort.
Super-leaders help each of their follower to develop into an effective self-leader by providing them with the behavioral and cognitive skills necessary to exercise self-leadership. Super-leaders establish values, model, encourage, reward, and in many other ways foster self-leadership in individuals, teams, and wider organizational cultures.

Why Business Architect?

In today's knowledge- and innovation-driven complex economy, business architects are in growing demand. They are cross-functionally excellent people who can tie several silos of business development expertise together, create synergies, design winning business model and a balanced business system and then lead people who will put their plans into action.

Business Architect Defined

Business architect is a person that initiates new business ventures or leads business innovation, designs a winning business model, and builds a sustainable balanced business system for a lasting success.
Business architects can be found in a multitude of business settings: corporate change leaders, initiators of joint ventures, managers of radical innovation projects, in-company ventures, spin-outs, or new start-up ventures. Although the settings in which business architects act are different, they all design and run a new venture to achieve its sustainable growth.

Integrated Approach to the Management Process

The integrated business systems approach to business development and the management process is what distinguishes modern cross-functionally excellent business architects from functional managers. As a business architect and an extremely effective leader, you must have a broad view to be able to link together – synergistically! – the key components of corporate success – from functional planning to cross-functional cooperation, from supply chain management to customer value creation, from the art of continuous learning to the practice of effective communication and influencing people – and bundle them in an intellectual, innovative and pragmatic package that can be used to achieve sustainable competitive advantage and business growth, both top-line and bottom-line.

Inclusive Approach

At the heart of the inclusive approach is the belief that understanding stakeholder needs – the needs of customers, employees, suppliers, shareholders and society, and the environment – and incorporating them into enterprise strategy and sustainable value creation activities are central to the achievement of sustainable growth and competitiveness.
 

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