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The New Manager
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Books Columns - Manage Mentor Leadership an improvisational art 
Leadership on the Line: Staying alive through the dangers of leading by Ronald A. Heifetz and Marty Linsky Tata McGraw-Hill As a leader, you may find your day’s activities as excitingly busy as on a dance floor, but it may help if you occasionally go up to ‘the balcony,’ advises a recent book from Harvard Business School Press. Achieving a ‘balcony perspective’ means taking yourself out of the dance, in your mind, even if only for a moment, explain Ronald A. Heifetz and Marty Linsky in Leadership on the Line: Staying alive through the dangers of leading ( www.tatamcgrawhill.com). “The only way you can gain both a clearer view of reality and some perspective on the bigger picture is by distancing yourself from the fray. Otherwise, you are likely to misperceive the situation and make the wrong diagnosis, leading you to misguided decisions about whether and how to intervene.” Listen to out-group members
Introduction to Leadership: Concepts and practice by Peter G. Northouse Sage One of the most difficult challenges facing a leader is to listen and respond to ‘out-group members,’ says Peter G. Northouse in Introduction to Leadership: Concepts and practice ( www.sagepublications.com). Out-group members are those individuals in a group or organisation who do not identify with the larger group, the author explains. “They may be in opposition to the will of a larger group or simply disinterested in the group’s goals. They may feel unaccepted, alienated, and even discriminated against. In addition, they may think they are powerless because their potential resources have not been fully accepted by the larger group.” Northouse instructs leaders to listen to out-group members because the fact that some people sense that they are not being heard is at the very centre of why out-groups exist. D. Murali More Stories on : Books | Management | Manage Mentor
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