Adaptive Leadership - Ronald Heifetz and Martin Linsky

Surviving Leadership - An Interview with Ronald Heifetz and Marty Linsky
This interview includes a summary of the key concepts in their book, Leadership on the Line. 
(Source: March 2020 Harvard Management Update)

The Adaptive Leader - Risky Business? - Susan DeGenring (Interaction Associates) 
This paper helps leaders understand several leadership paradoxes, and by applying the principles of Adaptive Leadership, leaders can minimize risk and heighten results in achieving positive, sustainable change.
(Source: The Adaptive Leader, June 2005, www.interactionassociates.com)

When Leadership Spells Danger - Ronald Heifetz and Marty Linsky
Focusing on education, the authors describe how leading meaningful change in education takes courage,
commitment, and political savvy; and how to apply adaptive leadership to educational settings. 
(Source: Educational Leadership, April 2004, Volume 61, Number 7; www.ascd.org/authors/ed_lead/el200404_heifetz.html)

The Leadership Challenge - James Kouzes and Barry Posner

Leadership Challenge Overview - from The Leadership Challenge Book by James Kouzes and Barry Posner
In this excerpt from The Leadership Challenge Kouzes and Posner describe the five practices of exemplary leadership: Model the Way, Inspire a Shared Vision, Challenge the Process, Enable Others to Act, and Encourage the Heart.
(Source: www.wiley.com)

The Leadership Challenge Approach - Summary
The Leadership Challenge - FAQs

Leading at a Higher Level - Ken Blanchard & Associates

The following resources present the key leadership concepts develop over 30 years of research and practice by Ken Blanchard and his associates and presented in the book, Leading at a High Level.

Leading at a Higher Level - Article
(Source: Success from Home, Volume 3, Issue 7)

Leading at a Higher Level - Book Summary
(Source: Soundview Executive Book Summaries)

Leading at a Higher Level - Introduction & Chapter 1
(Source: www.kenblanchard.com)

Servant Leadership

The Understanding and Practice of Servant Leadership - Larry Spears
(Source: www.regent.edu/acad/sls/publications/conference_proceedings/servant_leadership_roundtable/2005/pdf/ spears_practice.pdf)

Practicing Servant Leadership - Larry Spears
(Source: Leader to Leader, Fall 2004)

The Key Practices of Servant-Leaders - Kent M. Keith 
(Source: Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership, www.www.greenleaf.org)

Strategic Servant Leadership: 5 Critical Elements in Effectively Modeling a Serving Attitude - Ronald F. Smedley
(Source: Christian Management Report, April 2005)

Strengths-Based Leadership - Tom Rath and Barry Conchie (Gallup)

Strengths-Based Leadership Website
Nearly a decade ago, Gallup unveiled the results of a landmark 30-year research project that ignited a global conversation on the topic of strengths. More than 3 million people have since taken Gallup's StrengthsFinder Assessment. In recent years, while continuing to learn more about strengths, Gallup scientists examined decades of data on the topic of leadership. They studied more than one million work teams, conducted more than 20,000 in-depth interviews with leaders, and even interviewed more than 10,000 folloers around the world to ask exactly why they followed the most important leader in their life. The results were reported in the book, Strengths-Based Leadership by Tom Rath and Barry Conchie. Based on their discoveries, the book identifies three keys to being a more effective leader: knowing your strengths and investing in others' strengths, getting people with the right strengths on your team, and understanding and meeting the four basic needs of those who look to you for leadership. 

Strengths-Based Leadership Synopsis