As some of you may have noticed, posts at CLD have decreased in frequency but I am excited to report that I will be blogging at Weekly Leader which is a wonderful opportunity to work with some really cool people. So hop over to WeeklyLeader and checkout the blogs, podcasts and articles on the topic of leadership.

Check back once in a while and see what’s happening or feel free to peruse the more than 300 posts on the topic of leadership development. CLD has been a fun project! – Scott J. Allen

Of course this is not leadership, but some of the concepts (self-steem, teamwork, ethics, and so forth) stradle the two worlds. Check out cinematherapy.com. Regardless, it is a great website and a glimpse of what someone (with a lot of energy) could create for leadership. A small version of this exists here but is in desperate need of updating. What films come to mind for you?

Ira Chaleff wrote a book about followers, The Courageous Follower, and I love the following quote:

• All important social accomplishments require complex group effort, and therefore, leadership and followership. Both are necessary in the pursuit of a common purpose. Some believe that influence in the leader-follower relationship is largely one way. This is far from true. Followers have great capacity to influence the relationship. (p. 14)

Just look around you at work today and watch this play out.  Their inspired committment or lackluster compliance can mean the difference between success and failure.

Fascinating…

A reader passed along this video from YouTube which I think is a nice motivational piece for a workshop, retreat and so forth. See what you think…

I came across this quote by Joanne Ciulla in her book Ethics: The Heart of Leadership and I just love it. It nicely captures a challenging distinction as we judge leaders. We can all think of individuals who were one or the other – what may be less common is people who embody both – can you think of any?

• In order for the statement ‘she is a good leader’ to be true, it must be true that she is effective and that she is ethical. The question of what constitutes a good leader lies at the heart of the public debate on leadership. We want our leaders to be good in both ways. It’s easy to judge if they are effective, but more difficult to judge if they are ethical, because there is some confusion over what factors are relevant to making this kind of assessment.