On April 9, Amanda Madorno and I are leading a session at the Nonprofit Conference on 21st Century Leadership. The workshop highlights the ways in which the demands on leadership are changing in our times, and identifies strategies for leaders to build the skills they need to maintain effectiveness. I’ll be writing more about this in a future post, but I wanted to go ahead and post the bibliography for the session–as this conference is “going green” there is an emphasis on providing resources electronically, and this will allow me to point participants in the right direction.
Below is a bibliography of resources related to our themes of generational change, adaptive leadership, creativity and resilience. They range from books (how old school!) to humorous takes on the generation gap. Please consider adding your favorite resources by adding a comment on the bottom of this post for others to see.
Bibliography
Ready to Lead? Next Generation Leaders Speak Out, A National Study Produced in Partnership by CompassPoint Nonprofit Services, The Annie E. Casey Foundation, the Meyer Foundation and Idealist.org
Stepping Up or Stepping Out: A Report on the Readiness of Next Generation Nonprofit Leaders, by Young Nonprofit Professionals Network
Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ
Ron Heifetz and Donald Laurie, “The Work of Leadership,” Harvard Business Review, December, 2001.
Building a resilient collaboration: How to “nimble-ize” your collaboration from Fieldstone Alliance
Ross, Bernard and Clare Segal, Breakthrough Thinking for Nonprofit Organizations, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2002.
Brinckerhoff, Peter, Generations: The Challenge of a Lifetime for Your Nonprofit, Fieldstone Alliance, 2007.
“Shift Happens” on You Tube
Barack Obama is Your New Bicycle and companion site, John McCain is Your Jalopy
Digital Natives, Digital Immigrants” and “Do They Really Think Differently?” at MarkPrensky.com
Digital Natives Project, a wiki on digital natives started by academics
Digital Natives: How is the Younger Generation Reshaping the Telecom and Media Landscape, by Capgemini Consulting
hi, i just wanted to let you know about a really interesting daniel goleman audio dialogue series called ‘Wired to Connect’ in which he discusses the applications of social intelligence in a variety of fields with leading thinkers. you can listen to free samples of the conversations at http://www.morethansound.net , thanks, hope you have a good day.
This was super helpful Laura – I went right to the seattle public library site and put the titles I haven’t read on hold.
Good luck with your workshop at the conference – wish I could be there!
Here are comments generated by participants in our 21st Century Leadership workshop. The discussion question was: What did your small groups talk about with regard to strategies to build the skills necessary to become an effective 21st century leader?
-Strengthfinders 2.0 is a great tool for helping build teams around complementary strengths
-Seek agreement and a middle way (when generations conflict)
-Observe that the right side of our chart is more associated with femininity, and therefore women may more naturally gravitate toward these leadership practices
-Shared ownership promotes 21st century leadership
-Recognize that organizations tend to shift to the left (old ways of leading) in a crisis. Establishing trust helps.
-The younger generation only knows and recognizes the new type of leadership
-The trends we discussed are encouraging in terms of leadership succession
-Take to extreme, the new approach may cause paralysis—some blend with old approach still needed
-Important to pass experience, history on
-Both sides (generations/types of leaders) must adjust
-People may hold differing perspectives regarding how far your organization has shifted
-Use mistakes to learn and try again
-Transparency and visibility is a nonprofit challenge