Leveraging the Spotlight of Leadership: What Every Leader Should Know
- Use evocative story telling to emphasize your focus and leave a lasting impression.
- Model the behavior that gives your organization its unique advantage.
- Signal and guide priorities with simple must do rules and memorable moments.
Managers and executives sit in a natural spotlight because of their leadership role. The best leaders harness the spotlight as a powerful tool to get things done influencing the behavior and decision-making of their staff even when they are not present.
Professor Conger explains that leadership is gauged more in the small actions of the day than in the big decisions. He illustrates how successful leaders employ specific techniques to lead members of their organizations and guide their decisions. According to Conger, the spotlight also magnifies careless comments or actions and the best leaders are always conscious of the image they project.
Dr. Conger serves as Senior Research Scientist at the Center for Effective Organizations Marshall School of Business University of Southern California. He has written for numerous publications including Harvard Business Review, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal and authored twelve books most recently The Practice of Leadership. Professor Conger received his BA from Dartmouth College his MBA from the University of Virginia and his DBA from the Harvard Business School.
Jay Conger Ph.D. - Professor of Leadership Claremont McKenna College and Senior Research Scientist Center for Effective Organizations Marshall School of Business University of Southern California
Jay Conger is one of the world's experts on leadership. He's quoted in the Wall Street Journal analyzing people and trends in the executive suite and in the boardroom. In recognition of his extensive work with companies Business Week named him number five on its list of the world's top ten management educators. The Financial Times described him as one of the World's Top Educators and Business Week called him the best business school professor to teach leadership to executives.
Professor Conger has authored over ninety articles and book chapters and twelve books he researches leadership organizational change boards of directors and the training and development of leaders and managers. His articles have appeared in the Harvard Business Review Organizational Dynamics Business & Strategy the Leadership Quarterly the Academy of Management Review and the Journal of Organizational Behavior.
His newest book co-authored with Ronald Riggio is entitled The Practice of Leadership (2006). His most recent books include; Growing Your Company's Leaders (2003) Shared Leadership (2002) Corporate Boards: New Strategies for Adding Value at the Top (2001) The Leader's Change Handbook (1999) Building Leaders (1999) Winning Em Over: A New Model for Management in the Age of Persuasion (1998). His book Charismatic Leadership in Organizations (1998) received the Choice book award. One of his earlier books Learning to Lead has been described by Fortune magazine as the source for understanding leadership development.
He has taught at the Harvard Business School INSEAD (France) the London Business School McGill University and the University of Southern California. He received the highest teacher ratings in USC's first year MBA program. While at the Harvard Business School he was ranked by first year MBA students in the top ten percent of the school's faculty. He is also the recipient of teaching awards from the London Business School and McGill University. He has been awarded by the Center for Creative Leadership their prestigious H. Smith Richardson Fellowship for his research on leadership.
Outside of his work with universities he consults with a worldwide list of private corporations and non-profit organizations. His insights have been featured in Business Week The Economist The Financial Times Forbes Fortune The LA Times The New York Times San Francisco Chronicle Training The Wall Street Journal and Working Woman.
He received his B.A. from Dartmouth College his M.B.A. from the University of Virginia and his D.B.A. from the Harvard Business School. Prior to his academic career he worked in government and as an international marketing manager for a high technology company.
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