Leadership: All You Need to Know

When times are hard, leadership makes the greatest difference. So says the evidence. This book shows how to make the kind of difference that all organizations, both public and private sector, want and need. Early chapters show the powerful effect leadership can have on organizations; subsequent chapters present new ideas that are elegantly simple, conceptually coherent and radically different, based on the best research in the field. The ideas in this book have also been tested in major multinational organizations over recent years. The aim is to provide leaders and those who work with them with a practical guide to how to increase the effectiveness of leadership in any organization.

ISBN 0230319459   Pages 200 ISBN13 9780230319455 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 462 Publisher Palgrave Macmillan   Published in Basingstoke Imprint Palgrave Macmillan   Height (mm) 241 Format Hardback   Width (mm) 162 Publication date 19 Sep 2011   Spine width (mm) 16 DEWEY 658.4092   Academic level Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC23

Acknowledgement Foreword by Sir Rod Eddington Introduction The History of Thinking about Leadership Leadership's Impact on the Performance of Organisations The Primary Colours of Leadership The Improbability of Being a Complete Leader Building a Leadership Team Do You Have to be Smart to be a Leader? The Impact of Personality on Leadership A Programme of Action Summary and Conclusion: Complete Leadership Bibliography

'This leadership model is practical, simple, understandable and, most importantly, it works at all levels.' -- John Rishton, CEO, Rolls Royce 'Amidst the clutter of books on leadership, this book stands out. It helps make sense of a whole range of leadership theories and integrates it all into the authors' own compelling view of what makes leaders effective. I've found their framework very helpful in my own work.' -- Larry Benjamin, Capwell Partners, Chicago, IL 'Wonderful stuff! . A really important and worthwhile book.' -- David Haslam,President, British Medical Association 'I would recommend it particularly to people who are contemplating a leadership role and are not quite sure they have the attributes to tackle it ! an inspirational read.' -- Dr Elisabeth Taylor, Divisional Director, University of Bristol Hospitals NHS Trust, UK 'An important step for a company to secure future success is to have effective leader teams. Working with the ideas in this book has been very useful to us and very inspiring.' -- Asa Gabriel, SVP HR, ICA Group, Sweden 'This book introduces a model to apply the concept of incomplete leadership. What we have seen in our company is that managers take an immediate liking to its simplicity and clarity. In our journey to build a single leadership team for a multinational company it helped them to play to their strengths and trust others to complete the team.' -- Klaas Miedema, SVP Management Development & HR, Royal Ahold, Amsterdam 'Clear analysis of effective leadership and how leadership teams need to work together to be complete. The authors take us beyond 'heroic leadership' -- the concepts are new, powerful and provocative.' -- Richard Olivier, Leadership Development Consultant and Artistic Director of Olivier Mythodrama 'I have seen the application of these ideas enable individuals and teams from around the world understand what they need to do, and why, and align their personal and collective efforts to work together effectively and deliver results in a way they found astonishing.' -- Dr Paul Chapman, Fellow in Operations Management, Said Business School, University of Oxford 'Keep this book at your elbow. The ideas it brings to life are profoundly useful. And it's an enjoyable read along the way.' -- Sir Rod Eddington, Chairman, JP Morgan Australia and New Zealand

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