Articles
Aspiring to Lead: Hard-wired to Manage
Lester Levy and Brigid Carroll. University of Auckland Business Review, Volume 10, No. 2 (2008).
Management and leadership are shaped by each other in subtle and overt ways. Recent
New Zealand based research reveals new dynamics between management and leadership
and offers promise for new thinking and innovation in terms of leadership development
and organisational performance.
More Right than Real - the Shape of Authentic Leadership in New Zealand
According to research on the authenticity of New Zealand leaders undertaken by Excelerator, only 37.4 percent of New Zealand workers regard their bosses as "authentic". In other words, six out of ten employees think their bosses have low self awareness, little capacity to create transparent, meaningful relationships, and let outside pressures guide their behaviour instead of personal morals and beliefs.
This research was funded by BDO Spicers who also collected and analysed the data from almost 1000 employees of primarily medium sized businesses across New Zealand.
A pilot study into the perceptions of leadership by Generation X and Y
This whitepaper delivers the findings of ground breaking primary research by Excelerator: New Zealand Leadership Institute commissioned by Hudson which challenges the stereotypes that have sprung up in popular literature around generational attitudes making the case for leadership that treats people as individuals, not as generations. (pdf)
The Call for Leadership Lester Levy, University of Auckland Business Review, Vol 6, No 1 (2004)
