The leadership crash course : how to create personal leadership value

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Title:

Author:

Taffinder, Paul.

ISBN:

9780749446383

Personal Author:

Taffinder, Paul.

Edition:

2nd ed.

Publication Information:

London ; Philadelphia, PA : Kogan Page, 2006.

Physical Description:

xiv, 176 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

General Note:

Includes index.

Contents:

Course 1. Be a manager or a leader -- Course 2. Impose context -- Course 3. Make risks and take risks -- Course 4. Challenge and change -- Course 5. Have conviction -- Course 6. Generate critical mass -- Course 7. The dominant leadership sub-domains.

Abstract:

"The Leadership Crash Course is a hard-hitting day-to-day guide to help executives and managers gain insight into their own leadership, then develop and hone the right skills to become powerful leaders. Genuine leadership makes a huge, often crucial, difference to the value that strategy, structure and organization offer. It moves things forward, it inspires action, it changes the world, it maximizes the likelihood of growth, attainment and success." "Psychologist and award-winning author Dr Paul Taffinder pushes you to analyse your own strengths and weaknesses and then systematically build your personal capability to create leadership value. This book offers unprecedented access to insightful personal cases and real examples of both success and failure."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject Term:

Leadership.

Management.

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Summary

Good leaders are in demand. The world is full of managers and desperately short of leaders - real leaders. The Leadership Crash Course is designed to help anyone develop and hone the necessary skills to be a truly effective leader. Structured in seven parts, this fully revised new edition is a self-improvement course like no other. Readers can analyse their strengths and weaknesses by working through a range of activities and exercises. It's also full of practical hints and tips that will help readers make quick decisions when needed. There is guidance on how to take on a new leadership role with rapid impact, set up and lead a change initiative, communicate change to employees, disturb the organizational culture in order to make things happen, turn your mistakes into successes and mobilize staff so they are all pulling in the same direction. The Leadership Crash Course is really about creating value, because good leadership moves things forward, creates action and increases the likelihood of growth, attainment and success. .