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Excerpt from Leading for a Change: How to Master the Five Challenges Faced by Every Leader, by Ralph Jacobson
This excerpt describes the universal challenges faced by every leader and presents the concept of The Leader's Map.

Common Tools and Language for Positive Change
From The Change Champion's Field Guide: Strategies and Tools for Leading Change in Your Organization, edited by Dave Ulrich, Marshall Goldsmith, Louis Carter, Jim Bolt, and Norm Smallwood. This chapter compares the Leader's Toolbox^® methodology with the competency approach and describes its implementation at a Fortune 100 international financial organization and a mid-sized construction company.

Article: “Leader’s Toolbox: Become a leader by doing,” by Ralph Jacobson
Published in Executive Excellence, prescribes several counter-intuitive, yet powerful principles for building organization-wide leadership.

Article: "New Paradigm of Leadership," by Ralph Jacobson>
Published in Executive Excellence, this article describes the critical ingredients to create effective leadership teams.

Article: "The Real Work of Teams," by Ralph Jacobson
Published in Human Systems Management, this article describes how to build effective teams quickly without falling into the traps of many ineffective team building approaches.

Tool: The Chair Person's Speech
A Fortune 50 organization found that meeting times were reduced by 30 percent when this tool was applied. The chairperson's speech was originated by Roger Mosvik.

Tool: The Leader's Map by Ralph Jacobson
The map lays out the five challenges leaders face and the typical order in which many leadership issues must be addressed. It provides an overview of the leadership process and provides a common language to facilitate cross-functional leadership.