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Key Theories
This animated video provides an overview of several leadership theories.

The Dark Side of Leadership 
In this video, Dr. Dawn Eubanks discusses factors that enable destructive leadership.

Universal Leadership Attributes

In this video, historian Nancy Koehn explains the ingredients of great leadership. 

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Leadership Behaviors
This article from the Harvard Business Review describes how much employees value civility in their leaders.

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Confidence
In this TED talk, Dr. Ivan Joseph shares how he helps develop the skill of self-confidence.

Determination
In this video, Malala Yousafzai describes how her determination to advocate for girls' education persisted through the harships she faced.

Traits of Great Leaders
This video describes traits of great leaders.

Intelligence in Leadership
This video tells the story of how Bill Gates and Paul Allen co-founded Microsoft.
 

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Effective Traits
This article from the Harvard Business Review discusses key traits that all leaders can strive toward.

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The StrengthsFinder 
This video from the Gallup Strengths Center describes the StrengthsFinder tool.

Becoming Influential 
This video discusses how leaders who have great resolve and deep humility can be most effective in inspiring followers.

Discovering Strengths
In this TED talk, Martin Seligman shares the importance of understanding strengths in a medical setting.

Developing Strengths
In this TEDx talk, Chris Wejr discusses how an environment that fosters strengths can help students grow.

A Positive Climate
This video features Salim Shekh and Sikha Patra, children who are "revolutionary optimists," working to improve public health in their community.

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Positive Psychology 
This article describes how positive feedback can help followers with change and lead them toward success.

Values in Action
The free Values in Action survey helps individuals identify their character strengths.

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Styles of Leaders and Managers     
In this video, Simon Sinek discusses management tactics that helped him learn what type of leader he could be.

The Authoritarian Leadership Style   
In this TEDx talk, Natasha Ezrow discusses how dictators use an authoritarian style and how dictators fall.

The Democratic Leadership Style     
In this video, General Golin Powell describes how his effectiveness as a leader stems from prioritizing trust and creating a supportive structure for followers, using a democratic leadership style.

The Laissez-Faire Leadership Style 
This video compares laissez-faire leadership with other leadership styles, defining and describing how laissez-faire leaders typically behave.

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Theory X       
This page gives a quick overview of Theory X and Theory Y.

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Focusing on Tasks and People         
This video from Susanne Madsen, a project manager, discusses the importance of managing both tasks and people.

Task Leadership
This video provides shows how thinking through processes in advance can help employees stay productive.

Relationship Leadership       
Sue Desmond-Hellmann, head of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, describes how vulnerability allows leaders and followers to take the opportunity for reflection.

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Task and Relationship Theories       
This page provides a quick overview of task-oriented and relationship-oriented leadership.

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Administrative Skills   
In this TEDx talk, David Allen discusses the way the brain works when it comes to planning, and how to get things done.

Developing Skills       
Michael Useem from the Wharton Center for Leadership and Change Management discusses how a leader can develop skills to increase effectiveness.

Decision Making       
In this TED talk, Ruth Chang suggests approaches to making hard choices.

Strategic Planning     
In this video, Simon Sinek discusses how using clear language helps in strategic planning.

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Interpersonal Skills   
This article on customer-centric leadership describes how focusing on others helps mobilize employees and keep them engaged.

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Visionary Leadership 
This video features leadership experts discussing how Steve Jobs' visionary leadership led to Apple's phenomenal success.

Inspiring Action Through Values
In this TED talk, Simon Sinek discusses how leaders use vision to inspire followers.

Explaining a Vision to Followers       
In this video, Steve Jobs explains his vision to an individual who disagrees with some business decisions.

Maintaining High Standards 
Dick Grote discusses how maintaining high standards can help leaders hold employees accountable.

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Vision as a Map
This article from Forbes provides practical suggestions for designing a company culture.

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Structure
Jessica Valoris is a mentor who creates a space to help students identify their unique contributions.

Understanding Norms
This video on social influence shows how norms can arise from situations and in response to the need to belong.

Leading a High-Performance Team 
In this video, Evan Carmichael describes how important high standards have been for him personally, and how powerful standards are in improving performance.

Giving Feedback
This video suggests two acronyms leaders can use when giving feedback to help ensure the message will be effective.

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Team Cohesiveness
Cohesiveness, this article argues, is the key to building a high-performance team.

Requiring Results
This resource from the Office of Personnel Management relays the positive benefits to individuals and organizations when leaders hold employees accountable to high standards.

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Moving Beyond an Exclusionary Culture
This video from CBS features Carey Lohrenz discussing how she became the first woman to pilot an F-14 Tomcat aircraft.

Assimilation
Jacob Vigdor of Duke University describes how assimilation can be measured.

Benefits of Diverse Leadership
Adam Grant and Sallie Krawcheck discuss how diverse leadership helps a company succeed.

Challenges for Women in Leadership
In this TED talk, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg discusses challenges that women in leadership face, and provides suggestions for overcoming them.

Feeling Safe
Simon Sinek discusses how leaders who instill trust and a climate of safety helps followers achieve goals.

Privilege
This video from HBR shows how white male candidates tend to be privileged in the hiring process.

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The Importance of Inclusion 
This article examines Brown University's efforts to develop an environment of inclusivity on campus.

Understanding Diversity
This article from the Yale School of Management examines what leaders should know and understand about diversity in order to be successful.

Prejudice
This article describes a US government study into racism in the education system.

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Group Identity
This video from the Center for Creative Leadership discusses social identity theory, showing how self-awareness can help in building bridges with others.

Understanding Out-Group Members
In this TED talk on tribal leadership, David Logan discusses how to get followers into cohesive groups, even when they start at different levels of engagement.

Empathy
In this TEDx talk, Carol Beyanga discusses the power of empathy in leadership.

Recognizing Contributions
This video shows an example of recognizing employees' contributions: President Barack Obama thanks federal employees.

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Respecting Out-Group Members
This article describes strategies for building cohesiveness with out-group members

Building a Collaborative Team
This article from Harvard Business Review suggests eight ways a leader can help teams become more collaborative.

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The Need for Esteem
In this TED talk, Brene Brown shares her experience working through insecurities and how our need for esteem can affect our behaviors and our lives.

Conflict Over Control 
This video discusses what a leader can do when controlling a situation than causes an employee to become upset.

A Win-Win Situation
This TED talk from William Ury describes how to negotiate effectively to create win-win situations.

The Importance of Listening
In another talk from William Ury, he discusses how essential listening is when working with others.

Compromise
Liz Weber discusses how when leaders manage conflict, the choice to compromise can cause disappointment.

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Using Conversation
This article from the Harvard Business Review discusses how conversation can help leaders resolve conflicts.

Face Saving
This article provides strategies for saving face when unprepared.

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Values and Leadership
This video from the Harvard Business Review features management thought leaders discussing leadership values.

Culture and Ethics
This video explores the cultural and ethical considerations of decision making within groups.

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Ethical Principles
NPR's ethics code explains the principles guiding the organization.

Goals and Unethical Leadership
This article examines how Wells Fargo's company goals created a climate where employees felt pressured to make unethical decisions.

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The Need for Clear Directions
Former Secretary of State, General Colin Powell, discusses how clear directions create structure, and how structure can help children toward success.

Overcoming Low Motivation
This video from RSA animate describes what motivates others and what does not.

Being Directive
This video shows how the conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic in the mid-Twentieth Century, Maestro Karajan, used directive leadership to lead musicians toward his vision.

Being Supportive
This video features a discussion about being a more supportive leader.

Low Involvement
In this TED talk, Yves Morieux discusses how a climate open to diverse opinions, rather than led by strict rules, helps followers become more productive.

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Clarifying Goals
This article describes how different situations may call for different types of goals.

The Need for a Challenge
This article describes techniques to challenge employees and strengthen them through bringing them toward fulfilling their potential.