MGMT 400 Leadership and Management Skills

Describes the six management styles according to Hay McBer: directive, authoritative, affiliative, participative, pacesetting, and coaching.

From the Center for Creative Leadership, tips for leaders to lead themselves, lead others, and lead their organization.

From the Innovation Management website, this article describes the two major objectives of innovative management and the 13 practices needed to achieve them.

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Provides a broad range of information including coverage on leadership and supervision topics.

Detailed discussion of KPIs, internal and external.

Discusses the three main things that a manager does and the three main things a leader does, and how these roles differ.

From the Educational Business Articles (eba) website provides a discussion of the different roles of managers and leaders, summarized in a comparison table.

Online monthly publication is devoted to changing the way people think about leadership. It contains blogs articles, quotations on leadership, and more.

Defines management style and lists the characteristics associated with 5 styles.

Discusses there main categories of leadership styles: autocratic, paternalistic, and democrati, and the advantages and disadvantages of each.

Podcast transcript from Kinsey & Company discusses the impact of desigin thinking.

Lists the traits and key characteristics of both managers and leaders.

Design thinking offers innovation the upgrade it needs to inspire meaningful and impactful solutions.

Adapted from The Wall Street Journal Guide to Management by Alan Murray, which points out that while not the same thing, management and leadership are complimentary and must go hand in hand

Article on Forbes magazine website that discusses why innovation is needed for companies to survive and succeed.

Article from Fortune magazine site details why design thinking is important and how it can be used.

This Forbes online article says , "Design thinking should be at the core of strategy development and organizational change in order to create a culture that’s focused on this way of solving problems. Design thinking can and does work for all types of organizations, big and small."..

Article from Forbes magazine website that defines and differentiates between innovation and creation, then discusses how creativity leads to innovation.