Leadership for Intelligence Professionals   

References in Order of Citation

But, First: Are Traits Important?

Ralph M. Stogdill, “Personal Factors Associated with Leadership” in  The Leader’s Companion,  Chapter 23.

Thomas E. Cronin, “Thinking and Learning About Leadership” in The Leader’s Companion, Chapter 5

Shelly A. Kirkpatrick  and Edwin A. Locke, in “Leadership: Do Traits Matter?” (Chapter 24)  in The Leader’s Companion.

Bill George, Peter Sims, Andrew N. McLean and Diana Mayer “Discovering Your Authentic Leadership” in the Harvard Business Review, February 2007.

Robert Lear  “Speaking Out”, in Chief Executive, June 1996.

John Keegan The Mask of Command.

Sal Marino, Industry Week June 7, 1999.

Frederick W. Smith “What the Marine Corps Taught Me Can Be Seen Every Day in FedEx”, in U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, September 2008.

Barbara Kellerman, Bad Leadership: What It Is, How It Happens, Why It Matters.

Joseph S. Nye, The Powers to Lead and citing research by Stephen J. Zaccaro in 2007..

Van Wart,  Dynamics of Leadership in Public Service: Theory and Practice, “Traits That Contribute to Leader Effectiveness, Chapter 4.

Identifying the Core Traits

Pew Research Center survey of 1060 men and 1190 women, 16 June-16 July 2008 cited in USAToday February 3, 2009.

James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner “Credibility” in Leadership Excellence Nov. 2007.

James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner, The Leadership Challenge: How to Get Extraordinary Things Done in Organizations (3^rd Edition, 2002).

The Core Traits

Verifying the Core Traits

Ambassador John D. Negroponte, Director of National Intelligence to the Annenberg Institute for Public Policy, University of Pennsylvania, 26 October 2006.

Warren Bennis “Leaders in Transition” in Executive Excellence.  

Lee G. Bolman, Terrence E. Deal,  in Reframing Organizations: Artistry, Choice and Leadership.

Tracy E. Benson "The New Leadership" in Management magazine.

Warren Bennis in  Leading Change, and in numerous articles including “Leading Change” in Executive Excellence 5 Feb. 1995.

Pastor Rick Warren, “Invocation” at the Inauguration of President Barak Obama, January 4, 2009.

LtCol W. J. Harkin USMC “The Stuff of Leadership in Marine Corps Gazette, September 2002. 

Trust Requires Integrity

For example, see Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary.

Pearl Buck as quoted by Mark Bryan in The Artist's Way at Work.

Webster’s

Kouzes and Posner in The Leadership Challenge.

VADM James Sagerholm, graduation address to the U.S. Naval Academy class of 2002 from Shipmate.

Perry E. Smith in Taking Charge: A Practical Guide to Leadership.

Quoted by Bradley Olson in the Baltimore Sun 8 October 2007.  Reprinted in the U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, November 2007.

Kouzes and Posner in “The Seven Lessons of Leadership” in The Leader of the Future, Frances Hesselbein, Marshal Goldsmith, Richard Beckgart, eds.

Van Wart. 

Trust Requires Competence

Kouzes and Posner in The Leadership Challenge.

Tom Clancy in the “Introduction” to Into the Storm: A Study in Command by General Fred Franks.

Kouzes and Posner in The Leadership Challenge.

Trust Requires Courage

See Caroline Alexander, Endurance.  Quotes are also in John McCain, in Why Courage Matters: The Way to a Braver Life.

Oren Harari in The Leadership Lessons of Colin Powell.

Del Web in USAToday

Lead in to an article in the Science and Technology section of The Economist, February 28, 2009.  the article reported on a study by Elaine Fox and colleagues at the University of Essex and published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B concerning “whether genes play a part in the selective attention to positive or negative material, with consequent effects on outlook.”

Trust Requires All Three

Michael Beschloss in Presidential Courage.

Nye in The Powers to Lead, Chapter 5 “Good and Bad Leaders”.

Change Requires Vision

John Negroponte speaking at the Joint Military Intelligence College-Office of the DNI Conference, “Managing the Future During a Time of Change: A Conference on Intelligence Reform” held in September 2005.

James C. Collins and Jerry I. Porras “Building Your Company’s Vision” in the Harvard Business Review of September-October 1996.

The Leader’s Vision

Quoted in Bennis and Nanus in Leaders: Strategies for Taking Charge.

John Kotter, “What Leaders Really  Do” in The Leader’s Companion, Chapter 22 or Harvard Business Review of May-June 1990 or December 2001.

Jack Welch, "How Leaders Develop Leaders" in Training and Development,  May 1999.

Peter Senge in The Fifth Discipline.

Senge in The Fifth Discipline.

Vice Admiral James Stavridis  in the December 2005 issue of the  U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings.

A Vision for an Organization

Desmond D. Martin and Richard L. Shell in Management of Professionals: Insights for Maximizing Cooperation, “Change Processes in the Professional Environment” Chapter 10; “Building Effective Communication” Chapter 7; “Individuals and Groups: Their Needs and Behavior in Professional Work Organizations” Chapter 6; respectively. 

General Gordon R. Sullivan in the keynote address to the Global Panel, Maastricht, 17 Nov. 1994.  Printed as “Changing for the 21st Century” in Defense Issues Vol.9, No.91 (1994).

General Gordon R. Sullivan, USA (Ret.) with  Colonel. Michael V. Harper USA (Ret.) in Hope is not a Method.

Nye in the Powers to Lead Chapter 3 “Types and Skills”

Economist/Korn-Ferry International study of   Developing Leadership for the 21st Century.

Warren Bennis in Leaders.

Warren Bennis and Burt Nanus in Leaders: Strategies for  Taking Charge.

Jim Collins in Leader to Leader and in Leadership Excellence of April 2006.

Quoted by Amanda Riply in “Save Yourself” in The Atlantic of September 2009.

Economist/Korn-Ferry International study.

Developing a Vision for an Organization

Dr. Steven W. Edwards in Masters of Success.

Kouzes and Posner in “The Seven Lessons of Leadership”

President Reagan referring to his tax reform, quoted in the Economist, August 4, 2007.

Martin and Shell in “Change Processes in the Professional Environment” Chapter 10.

Jeffrey D. Ford and Laurie W. Ford “Decoding Resistance to Change in Harvard Business Review, April 2009.

Robert Gates interviewed in the New York Times Magazine, February 2007.

Sullivan in Defense Issues.

SpecerStuart.com.

Edgar Bronfman, “Turn Gripe Sessions into Brainstorms” Harvard Business Review.

Nye in the Powers to Lead Chapter 3 “Types and Skills”.

Ibid.

Sustaining A Vision in an Organization

Quoted in USAToday

Ken Blanchard in Masters of Success.

John Kotter, “Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail”, Harvard Business Review, January 2007 and also in Leading Change.

Jack Welch in Jack Welch and the Four Essentials of Leadership..

Jim Collins with Jerry Porras in Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies.

Paul Bracken “Corporate Disasters, Some Lessons for Transformation”, in Joint Forces Quarterly, August 2002.

Martin and Shell, “Change Processes in the Professional Environment” Chapter 10.

Kotter, “Leading Change”.

Leading Change Requires Inspiring People

Jack Welch, quoted by Robert Slater in  Jack Welch and the GE Way.

Van Wart, “Articulating the Mission and Vision”, Chapter 8.

Terry Pearce in Leading Out Loud.

Richard M. Nixon in his book, Leaders.

Sharon Begley “The Evolution of an Eco Prophet” in Newsweek, November 9, 2009.

Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis and Annie McKee, “Primal Leadership: The Hidden Driver of Great Performance” in the Harvard Business Review December 2001.

Daniel Goleman and Richard Boyatis, “Social Intelligence and the Biology of Leadership” in the Harvard Business Review, September 2008.

Tom Peters and Nancy Austin in In Pursuit of Excellence.

Michael Z. Hackman and Craig E. Johnson  “Leadership Communication Skills” (Chapter 55) in The Leader’s Companion.

Nye in Powers to Lead Chapter 3 Types and Skills.

George Tenet, At the Center of the Storm.

Summary and Conclusions

Persoanal Letter of retired President Thomas Jefferson to a friend, quoted by Stephen Ambrose in Undaunted Courage.

Kouzes and Posner in “Credibility”.

James MacGregor Burns in Running Alone: Presidential Leadership from JFK to Burns II: Why it has failed and how we can fix it.

Ballard Morton, Gladly Learn: Leadership: Learning, Teaching and Practicing.

Beyond the Core Traits

Montgomery Van Wart, in Dynamics of Leadership in Public Service, Chapter 4.