Week 4: Following a Blog

Would like to offer what I call a GO-TO SITE:
http://www.bestuniversities.com/blog/2009/top-100-leadership-blogs/
that has links to 100 leadership sites. I choose:
Leadership Styles Blog
to follow. It is “a forum on Empowerment, Engagement, Vision and Facilitation for Process Improvement & Change Leaders”

What I found interesting about this site it offers ideas on how to work with one’s leadership style. We learned about leadership styles. We will confront seniors and peers with different styles. How can we leverage what we learned from the Northouse readings?

The Leadership Styles Blog is an attempt to address this reality. The site offers comments mainly from Dr. Dike Drummond his wife Peg, and Shelley Roberts. The trio are in leadership consulting business and the site is for self–promotion but it is very rich in providing insight into what the business community celebrates as important leadership resources (leadership library, other blogs, LEAN, Six Sigma, etc.).

There are VERY few comments to the postings. The postings are very simple observations on such topics as Team Building, Managing Meetings, the Goldilocks Effect, 3-D Objectives. The 5S Game on Team Building (see top of the page of the blog for a linke to the game) is a neat item for you to work together on a project that promotes Quality Improvement.

Here are four postings and why they are relevant to our course:
Leadership Styles and The “Goldilocks Effect”
(Strengths/Weaknesses)
Leaders “Infect” People with their Mood - For Better or Worse
(Situational)
Do Leaders have to be Extroverts?
(Traits)
America’s Best Leaders - the Three Skills
(think you'll see a connection with Professor Raspiller's remarks)