Engineering and Leadership Podcast
by Pat Sweet, P.Eng, MBA, CSEP, PMP · Engineering and Leadership
A podcast by engineer Pat Sweet on the non-technical side of engineering careers: leadership, management, business acumen, productivity and professional development. Episodes help practising engineers prepare for supervisory roles and apply management practices in technical organisations.
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hbr.org
Harvard Business Review (hbr.org) offers research-based articles, case studies, and practical guidance on leadership, strategy, and organizational performance for managers and executives.
Center for Creative Leadership
Nonprofit leadership development institute that publishes research-based articles, guides and webinars on feedback, resilience, leading change and leadership at different organizational levels. Readers gain evidence-backed frameworks, such as the Situation-Behavior-Impact feedback model, for developing themselves and others.
Harvard Business Review - Leadership
Harvard Business Review's leadership topic page, collecting articles, essays and podcasts by researchers and executives on managing teams, influence, decision-making and organizational change. Readers can follow current management research and apply it to their own practice; many articles sit behind a metered paywall.
The Puzzle of Motivation - Dan Pink
TED talk in which Dan Pink contrasts behavioral science research on incentives with common business practice, arguing that contingent rewards can impair performance on creative tasks. Viewers understand why autonomy, mastery and purpose often motivate knowledge workers better than bonuses.
How Great Leaders Inspire Action
Simon Sinek's TEDx Puget Sound talk introducing the Golden Circle: why, how, what. Uses examples such as Apple and Martin Luther King Jr. to explain why communicating purpose first inspires people to follow, buy or commit more than listing features.
How great leaders inspire action
Simon Sinek's 2009 TEDx talk introducing the golden circle: why purpose precedes method and product in persuasion. As a model of presentation craft, it shows a single idea carried by repetition, drawing, and restraint.