This insightful and accessible article by Harvard Business School management guru Chris Agyris considers barriers to executive learning in institutions and proposes a number of pragmatic solutions.

Two of the leading thinkers in the field explore why leadership is both dangerous and difficult, and offer some sharp advice on how to lead with success.

An interview with the renowned thinker and writer containing a succinct summary of his thinking on leadership development.

A good overview of the concept of “transformational leadership,” a theory generally associated with the leadership thinker James MacGregor Burns. In contrast to “big man” theory, transformational leadership focuses heavily on the leader-follower relationship, morality, and the leader’s capacity to influence, motivate, and intellectually inspire.

This short 2005 monograph by the Annie E. Casey Foundation considers the imminent prospect of executive transition in non-profits, the steps necessary to ensure successful change and how this new generation of leaders may differ from their Baby Boomer predecessors.

The renowned American organizational theorist and consultant uses the terms “transformational leadership” in a non-conventional way – to refer to the type of leadership required to transform organizations. Much of Ackoff’s thinking focuses on how existing structures need to adapt to contemporary realities.

A short interview with Ronald Heifetz of the Harvard Kennedy School, in which shares his thinking about the challenges of leadership in a rapidly-changing world, the importance of adaptability, the significance of grass roots leadership and the primacy of values.

A brief interview with the research director of the Center for Public Leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School, in which she discusses the notion of “bad leadership” and explores the relationship between a leader and his/her followers.

In the Autumn 2008 issue of Contact, the Foundation’s quarterly journal, contributors reflect on different facets and challenges—from moral dilemmas to the advancement of women—facing Jewish organizations and their leaders today. Authors include Rabbi Elliot Dorff and blogger Rebecca Honig Friedman.

Robert Sternberg of Yale University shares his WICS model of leadership (wisdom, intelligence and creativity, synthesized), and discusses the role of the “story” in leadership. In the process, he also outlines the key major theories of leadership approaches: trait-based, behavioural, situational, contingency and transformational.

Working with communities in Eastern and Southern Europe, Russia, India, Central Asia and beyond, the Buncher Community Leadership Program offers training seminars, workshops and mentoring for current and future lay and professional leaders.

Created in 2006 with the support of the Charles and Lynn Schusterman Foundation, CLI pursues its mission of strengthening the skills of current and emerging Jewish leaders worldwide through an intensive professional development programs, peer networks and gatherings designed to foster institutional dynamism and managerial capacity.

In operation since 1992, Leatid’s pan-European seminar program helps senior Jewish leaders—top professionals, executive board members and rabbis—to strengthen their management and community development skills.

Funded by Leslie Wexner, and founded by Rabbi Herbert Friedman z”l, the Wexner Foundation runs three major Jewish leadership training programmes for American Jewish graduate students, American Jewish voluntary leaders and Israeli public officials. Since its establishment in 1984, the Foundation has become renowned for its exceptionally high quality of training and the opportunities it provides for its fellows to learn from the leading experts in both the Jewish and wider worlds.