by Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones (2006)
"In Why Should Anyone Be Led By You? Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones draw from more than twenty-five years of research, consulting work, and firsthand leadership experience to offer a convincing argument for the merits of authentic leadership, and practical advice for how leaders at all levels can achieve it." "The book shows how great leaders essentially act as "authentic chameleons": consistently displaying their true selves throughout the changes of contexts that require them to play a variety of roles. Authentic leaders also constantly nurture their relationship with followers by skillfully balancing the inherent tensions of the leadership role highlighting their strengths while revealing human weaknesses, maintaining their individuality while conforming enough to hold the organization together, and establishing intimacy with followers while keeping enough distance to command respect." "A counterpoint to the scores of leadership "recipe books," Why Should Anyone Be Led by You? will forever change how we view, develop, and practice the art of leadership wherever we live and work."--Jacket.
Dave Ulrich, Wendy Ulrich
A leadership guru and a clinical psychologist provide information about sustainability in the post-recession era and offer frameworks and tools for building a winning company culture and seizing the competitive advantage.
Emmanuel Gobillot
Traditional organizational boundaries limit our ability to deliver results. The Connected Leader argues that many of the old leadership recipes are outdated and don't take into account changes in the work environment and informal social networks within the organization. Taking a new approach to leadership theory, the author (a senior director at Hay Group) argues that modern leaders engage with employees and improve performance by building on trust, giving meaning to workplace relationships and by creating dialogue within the organization. The Connected Leader provides diagnostic tools for readers to evaluate their own skills and directly relate the insights from the book to their own situation.
David Cottrell
Prologue - drivers and passengers; keep the main thing the main thing; escape from management land; the "do right" rule; hire tough; do less or work faster; buckets and dippers; enter the learning zone - Epilogue.
John Zenger and Joseph Folkman
The highly anticipated follow-up to thepopular The Extraordinary LeaderIn their bestselling work The Extraordinary Leader, performancethought leaders John Zenger and JosephFolkman revealed the 16 key competencies that separatethe top 10% of leaders from the rest. Since that first book's publication, they have discovered, throughan extensive study with over 20,000 managers, thatleaders who possessed the ability to motivate outperformedall others. The Inspiring Leader reveals theauthors' newest proprietary research on how top leadersinspire teams to greatness, including the ninebehaviors exhibited by the most successful leaders andhow to implement them.