Leadership Resources

An outsider in an organization can take many forms. From outside the organization, from the industry, from the culture. Understanding how to identify who can represent the outsider in your organization can be very beneficial. Many organizations look at bringing…

As a new leader, get your bearings with these critical questions to ask when taking over a new team. https://knowyourteam.com/blog/2022/06/12/21-questions-to-ask-when-taking-over-a-new-team/

– Chris O’Riordan, Felicity Kelliher, Patrick C. Flood, Malcolm Higgs This book has several chapters of useful information and experiences from many different backgrounds. Taking on outsider leadership in male dominated industries, entrepreneurial outsider leadership, and serial outside leadership. The…

Nick Greenhalgh This article from Daniels College of Business serves as a great read of the true life lessons in leadership from the hit TV show Ted Lasso. The show features an American Football coach taking over an English Premier…

This article from the Harvard Business review outlines that the best leaders can come from the outside with no experience. The article brings some presidential examples like Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln as great leaders who have come from outside…

Rookie CEO’s display some best practices and some worst practices in stories put together but Bill Miller. This book helps to highlight some of the same points that transcend the “outside leader” role as many rookie CEOs are often asked…

Article from Instead Knowledge that references how elected leaders can take some pages from businesses’ use of outsider leadership. The positives and negatives and things to look out for within the context of political leadership. https://knowledge.insead.edu/leadership-organisations/what-leaders-can-learn-rise-outsider