Value Creators
Episode #24. Amanda Goodall on The Power Of Expert Leaders
In our ongoing series investigating leadership in business - coming from the skeptical perspective of “Is there such a thing?” - we meet Amanda Goodall, a professor of leadership at Bayes Business School, City University of London, specializing in the influence of leaders and managers on performance, shares insights from her book "Credible: The Power of Expert Leaders."
She has a new perspective on business leadership. It’s not a general management function that can be taught in an MBA course. It can’t be learned from leadership courses. It can’t be implemented by management consulting firms. Leaders must first be experts in their field and the core business of the firm.
Amanda shares the importance of experts in providing a clearer sense of purpose and fostering a longer-term organizational perspective. The dialogue concludes with a call to establish expert-friendly environments, and emphasizes the removal of impediments to harness expertise for organizational success.
Resources:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63251919-credible
https://www.amazon.com.au/Credible-Expert-Leaders-Amanda-Goodall-ebook/dp/B0BS3FS9XH
Shownotes:
0:00 | Intro
02:41 | Leadership Studies: Academic Overview
06:26 | Defining Leadership's Impact on History
09:07 | Patterns of Expert Leadership
13:35 | Success of Expert Leaders: Key Principles
17:25 | Expert Leadership at All Levels
18:05 | Reed Hastings' Leadership Style and Bureaucracy in Organizations
21:32 | Openness and Autonomy: Keys in Tech Companies
22:38 | Challenges in Defining Core Functions
25:15 | Rethinking Leadership: Business School Approach to Leadership
30:48 | Metrics Obsessed Defined
33:28 | Expert Leadership: How They Craft a Clear Essence of Purpose
35:22 | How Expert Leaders Create More Productive Workplaces?
38:43 | Expert Leaders Exhibit Greater Emotional Intelligence
41:34 | What is an Expert-Friendly Company?
45:40 | Removing Barriers to Get an Expert-Friendly Organization
47:27 | Wrap Up: Revolutionary Approach of Amanda Goodall
In our ongoing series investigating leadership in business - coming from the skeptical perspective of “Is there such a thing?” - we meet Amanda Goodall, a professor of leadership at Bayes Business School, City University of London, specializing in the influence of leaders and managers on performance, shares insights from her book "Credible: The Power of Expert Leaders."
She has a new perspective on business leadership. It’s not a general management function that can be taught in an MBA course. It can’t be learned from leadership courses. It can’t be implemented by management consulting firms. Leaders must first be experts in their field and the core business of the firm.
Amanda shares the importance of experts in providing a clearer sense of purpose and fostering a longer-term organizational perspective. The dialogue concludes with a call to establish expert-friendly environments, and emphasizes the removal of impediments to harness expertise for organizational success.
Resources:
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/63251919-credible
https://www.amazon.com.au/Credible-Expert-Leaders-Amanda-Goodall-ebook/dp/B0BS3FS9XH
Shownotes:
0:00 | Intro
02:41 | Leadership Studies: Academic Overview
06:26 | Defining Leadership's Impact on History
09:07 | Patterns of Expert Leadership
13:35 | Success of Expert Leaders: Key Principles
17:25 | Expert Leadership at All Levels
18:05 | Reed Hastings' Leadership Style and Bureaucracy in Organizations
21:32 | Openness and Autonomy: Keys in Tech Companies
22:38 | Challenges in Defining Core Functions
25:15 | Rethinking Leadership: Business School Approach to Leadership
30:48 | Metrics Obsessed Defined
33:28 | Expert Leadership: How They Craft a Clear Essence of Purpose
35:22 | How Expert Leaders Create More Productive Workplaces?
38:43 | Expert Leaders Exhibit Greater Emotional Intelligence
41:34 | What is an Expert-Friendly Company?
45:40 | Removing Barriers to Get an Expert-Friendly Organization
47:27 | Wrap Up: Revolutionary Approach of Amanda Goodall