Taking advice : how leaders get good council and use it wisely

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Title:

Taking advice : how leaders get good council and use it wisely

Author:

Ciampa, Dan.

ISBN:

9781591396680

Personal Author:

Ciampa, Dan.

Publication Information:

Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business School Press, c2006.

Physical Description:

xviii, 199 p. ; 25 cm.

Contents:

The help paradox -- How good leaders fail as advice takers -- A new framework for advice taking -- Types of advice : strategic, operational, political, and personal -- Kinds of advisers : expert, experienced, sounding-board, and partner -- The art of balance -- Attitudes and behavior of great advice takers -- Listening--the master skill--and other key success factors.

Subject Term:

Leadership.

Management.

Organizational change.

Executive ability.

Electronic Access:

Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip067/2006002372.html

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Summary

Looking at the argument that nearly all the thought and commentary regarding advice has been from the 'supply side', the author argues that we need a better way of thinking about the 'demand side', that is, a theory of advice-taking, as well as principles on how to take advice in practice.