Articles
Two excellent articles about leaders who really mean it are:
Tipping Point Leadership by Kim and Mauborgne, Harvard Business Review, April 2003 and
'Level 5 Leaders', The Triumph of Humility and Fierce Resolve by Jim Collins, Harvard Business Review, Jan 2001.
Others to consider are:
Management by Whose Objectives by Robert E Kelley, Harvard Business ReviewN/D 1988
Demand Better Results – and Get Them by R Schaffer, Harvard Business Review 1997.
All available from www.hbr.org.
Books
The one to read is definitely Execution by Larry Bossidy, Charan and Burke.
Others on the importance of Developing Others as Leaders are:
The Leadership Engine Noel Tichy and
The Leadership Pipeline by Charan, Drotter and Noel.