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organizational leadership

What is Organizational Leadership?

Organizational leadership can help renew hope for agreement—and illustrate why negotiation is important in leadership.

Wise leaders negotiate not only with outside customers, suppliers, and creditors, but inside their organization as well, with their peers and subordinates.

Too often, leaders focus on determining what they can bring to an organization rather than on what the organization needs from them. Daily tasks that real organizational leaders need to engage in to meet their organization’s needs include direction, integration, conflict management, education, motivation, representation, and trust creation, which you can learn more about here.

Rather than delivering orders, the most effective leaders educate, coach, guide, and advise those they lead, writes Salacuse in Real Leaders Negotiate!  Organizational members turn to their leaders for motivation and encouragement. To determine which incentives will be most motivating to employees, leaders may need to engage in a negotiation process with them.

Without the trust of organizational members, a leader will be unable to lead effectively. Leaders can build trust through negotiation, specifically by finding ways to meet other parties’ interests and demonstrating their ability to follow through on their promises.

The following items are tagged organizational leadership:

Charismatic Leadership: Weighing the Pros and Cons

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Jack Welch. Lee Iacocca. Ronald Reagan. Steve Jobs. Sam Walton. These prominent leaders from the 1980s embodied a leadership style held up at the time as highly desirable and effective: charismatic leadership. Leadership trends wax and wane, and charismatic leadership has taken a back seat to less hierarchical and paternalistic leadership styles, such as participative … Read More

Teaching Critical Leadership Skills

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Running a multinational corporation, starting a small business, or leading a diplomatic mission all require critical leadership skills. Being an effective leader necessitates negotiating both within your organization and with external partners. In Real Leaders Negotiate, author Jeswald Salacuse explains that leaders can increase their effectiveness by using negotiation in each of the three phases … Read Teaching Critical Leadership Skills

Negotiating Organizational Development

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Teach Your Students to Promote Organizational Development and Build Leadership Skills Efforts to impact change in any kind of organization usually involve multiple kinds of negotiations or consensus-building efforts. Organizational development is most effective when the participants in the organization, whether public, private or civil society, are directly engaged in deciding what might need to change, … Read Negotiating Organizational Development

Women in Leadership: Toward More Equitable Negotiations

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Women remain vastly underrepresented in organizational leadership positions in the United States and beyond. Leadership homogeneity can lead to gender-biased decisions that harm not only women employees but also organizations as a whole—including in the context of employment negotiations. In 2018, top track and field athletes revealed how their corporate sponsors penalized them for becoming … Read More

Organizational Leadership: Negotiating Buy-In to Your Cause

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During the Covid-19 pandemic, organizations and their leaders have faced unprecedented challenges that often cannot be fully met by going it alone. The story of how the Biden administration pushed pharmaceutical companies Johnson & Johnson (J&J) and Merck to work together to ramp up vaccine production illustrates how organizational leadership can inspire new forms of … Read More

Ethical Leadership: Create More Value in Negotiation

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In our negotiations and beyond, all of us engage in behaviors that create value—as well as actions that destroy it. Ethical leadership requires us to become more aware of the harm we cause in the world, work to reduce it, and to encourage those we lead to do the same.  Consider the Sackler family, which owns … Read More

Strategic Leadership: Move Beyond the Status Quo

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When old business models no longer serve us well, strategic leadership is needed to adapt to new times and conditions. This was true when entertainment-industry disrupter Netflix and two major U.S. theater chains tried to negotiate a wide theatrical release for The Irishman, the Netflix-financed Martin Scorsese film. Their impasse highlights the important role of … Read Strategic Leadership: Move Beyond the Status Quo

Organizational Leadership and Troubled Deals

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When a negotiation isn’t going well, strong leadership skills are often needed to get it back on track. Two recent news stories demonstrate that tenacious and inventive organizational leadership can help renew hope for agreement—and illustrate why negotiation is important in leadership. Trying to bring Barneys back from the brink For decades, luxury department store Barneys New … Read Organizational Leadership and Troubled Deals

The Value of Collaborative Leadership During Crises

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The United States and South Korea were both hit hard by the coronavirus. Yet while South Korea swiftly limited the virus’s impact, infection and death rates have soared in the United States. What can the United States and other countries learn from South Korea’s coronavirus response and how can they better prepare for future pandemics? … Read More

Organizational Leadership in High-Stakes Business Negotiations

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Amid tightening global competition and demand for new technologies, automakers are feeling the urge to merge. In late 2018, Fiat Chrysler chairman John Elkann, an American-Italian running his family’s business, stepped up the search for a merger partner and reached out to Renault, among other companies. For organizational leadership at Renault and Fiat Chrysler, the benefits … Read More