When leaders develop leadership character alongside developing leadership competence, it enhances their overall leadership capacity.
...Character reflects the consistency of who you are when everyone is looking and when no one is looking.
...Competence addresses the effectiveness and efficiency in using the skills required for your job.
...Capacity speaks to your ability and readiness to lead at higher levels of organizational complexity.
Leadership Core is written for the leader who is committed to enhance, increase, and expand their capacity as a leader. The scope and purpose of this book is to provide a framework of understanding that demystifies the ways in which organizations deepen their leadership resources going forward.
Leadership development is contextual, and organizational culture is the context in which leaders develop. The healthier the organization, the more effective the leader. The healthier the leader, the more effective the organization. Dr. Dick Daniels
Dick Daniels is a leadership strategist with a passion to help unravel the complexities of developing engaged leaders at every level in any organization. He hosts The Leadership Development Group on Linkedin Groups with nearly 30,000 global leadership practitioners sharing best practice insights on leadership development. Daniels' first book, Leadership Briefs: Shaping Organizational Culture to Stretch Leadership Capacity, won both national and regional book awards in 2016 and 2020. He also contributed a chapter on Leadership Musings in the annual Building Bridges series from the International Leadership Association, Leadership and Power in International Development: Navigating the Intersections of Gender, Culture, Context, and Sustainability. This volume was awarded the 2019 R. Wayne Pace Human Resource Development Book of the Year Award by the Academy for Human Resource Development. In addition, Daniels published a children's picture book in 2019 titled Oak Street Tree House: The Day They Messaged God, featuring his treasured grandchildren as the neighborhood characters. It also won 2019-2020 national and regional awards for the Early Reader category (6-8 years). Dr. Daniels is the Vice President of Consulting Services for Right Management Florida & Caribbean. He is an Adjunct Professor at Stockton University in New Jersey teaching an annual course on Leadership Ethics in the EdD program in Organizational Leadership. He serves as a Facilitator with the Chief Executive Network and is founder and President of The Leadership Development Group. Daniels joined the board of Hodos Institute providing leadership development initiatives throughout Eurasia. Hodos translated Leadership Briefs into Russian as a resouce for their work in the Ukraine and Russia. Dick is currently VP of Client Services for Right Management Florida Caribbean.
