John Charles Kunich, Richard I. Lester

Yes, You're a Leader! (eBook, ePUB)

A Practical Guide to Leadership for Real People

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Offering an array of fresh innovations to remedy the most daunting leadership challenges of today's complex and rapidly evolving world, this practical how-to guide is for anyone who has ever had qualms about his or her lack of leadership experience or imagined limitations. Everyone in a leadership or management role wants a quick and effective solution to the most severe problems. This book enables even a novice to proactively work through the largest challenges. Rather than providing clichés or superficial advice, the authors leverage the most impactful examples of key elements of leadership in a practical way that readers can translate to their own situations, no matter if they are in charge of a for-profit, not-for-profit, educational, religious, family, or social organization. The questions for analysis in each chapter specifically guide readers as they apply the material to their own experiences and challenges, making the insights pragmatic, relevant, and immediately useful. The book presents innovative tools and techniques, such as the use of Pascal's Wager to make momentous decisions despite gaps in relevant data and an uncertain future, as well as a way to reduce or eliminate the career-ending threat of any reader's most severe "Achilles' heel" vulnerabilities. The time management chapter supplies dozens of pragmatic ideas to do more in less time-and do it better; the chapter on "Quicksand Quadrants" enables any leader to quickly assess the optimal mix of approaches in any situation. It all adds up to an essential-and user-friendly-manual for every leader at every level.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216169314
• Artikelnr.: 68167807

Autorenporträt

John Charles Kunich is Associate Professor of Law, Appalachian School of Law, Virginia, and the author of several books.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Ken Blanchard One: Grow Up! Hard-hitting advice on how leaders
must speak, dress, and behave if they are to succeed. Addresses anger
management, sexual harassment, professionalism, profanity, and other
factors crucial to maturity and stability and to success as a leader. Two:
Blazing through the Fog How to use the core insights of Blaise Pascal's
"wager" to make optimal decisions in the pivotal situations where you must
choose despite gaps in vital information and key uncertainties as to what
the future holds. Explains a new, powerful tool for making the best
possible decisions under the most difficult circumstances. Three: Crisis
Leadership and Raoul Wallenberg The stunning and inspirational story of the
Righteous Gentile who personally saved over 100,000 Hungarian Jews from the
Holocaust. Analysis of how he did it, why he did it, and how any leader can
use these methods to overcome every crisis today. Four: Feedback: Feeding
the Hands That Back Us Breaks down communication barriers, even between
millennials and the rest of us. Explains how effective feedback can become
an indispensable part of every relationship and every organization. Five:
Mentoring: Passport to Tomorrow Uses a mnemonic approach to each element of
mentoring to explain how great leaders are able to transform the lives of
their protégés. Practical, step-by-step instruction, complete with ways to
avoid pitfalls and leverage small successes into major gains. Six: Time
after Time Management Time budgeting for today's multi-tasking, multimedia
world. Dozens of valuable insights into doing more with your all-too-finite
and limited time. Explains how to identify and avoid time thieves while
maintaining a healthy balance among all of life's facets. Seven: The
Quicksand Quadrants Unique analysis of the intersection of leadership and
management in every major permutation and combination. The dangers of
"doing wrong things right" and "doing right things wrong." How to improve
any organization's agility and efficacy. Eight: Healing Your Achilles' Heel
Practical insights into identifying and then gaining control over your
biggest vulnerabilities. Presents the "Heel Hall of Fame and Infamy." You
can neutralize your most devastating life- and career-destroying weaknesses
by using this approach. Bibliography Index About the Authors