Seven disciplines of a leader : how to help your people, team, and organization achieve maximum effectiveness / Jeff Wolf ; with Ken Shelton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wolf, Jeff (Economist), author.

Contributor:

Shelton, Ken, contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Leadership.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (307 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Hoboken : Wiley, [2015]

Summary:

"The Seven Disciplines of a Leader each has their own value, but together they represent a synergistic approach to heightening the effectiveness of leaders, and a great tool for training high profile employees who have leadership potential. The seven disciplines are: Initiative and influence Vision, strategy and alignment Priorities, planning, and execution Empathy and social/emotional/political intelligence Reciprocation, collaboration, and community service Love and leverage Renewal and sustainability "-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Seven Disciplines of A Leader: How to Help Your People, Team, and Organization Achieve Maximum Effectiveness; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: What Makes Certain Leaders Highly Effective?; Part I: The Nature of Highly Effective Leadership; 1. Welcome to Leadership: Nature of the Job; The Need for Leadership Is Greater Now Than Ever Before; Real Life, Real Lessons; Secret Ingredient: People; Jim Gets It Done the Right Way; The Inevitable Result of Failing to Take Responsibility; Finger-Pointing; Leading in Uncertain Times; Helen Gets It Right

2. Who Said It Would Be Easy?: Scope of the Leader's JobFive Fundamental Goals of Highly Effective Leaders; What's Wrong with Being Right?; Zoe Learns an Important Lesson from Her Boss, Stan; Fear of Failure Is Dangerous to Your Job Health; Bob's Short and Unhappy Career; 3 Principles of Effective Leadership: Essence of the Leader's Job; How to Make Things Happen; Grumbling George; Attitude Is Everything; Show Vulnerability; What I Learned from the Father of Professional Speaking; Highly Effective Leaders Build on a Foundation of Honesty and Integrity; Seven Deadly Leadership Sins

Pride and Envy Bring Millie Down4 Disciplines and Practices of Highly Effective Leaders; New Paradigm of Discipline: Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation; The Necessary Foundation of Discipline; Daily Discipline Activities; Why Be Disciplined?; Jimmy Corrects a Problem; Talent or Hard Work?; Deliberate Practice: 10,000 Hours or 10 Years; Three Disciplines of Highly Effective Leaders; Deliberate Practice; Tom Receives Feedback; Part II: Seven Disciplines; 5 Discipline 1: Initiative and Influence: Seize the Reins and Set an Example for Others; Simply No Substitute for Honesty

Mary Ellen and Jane Part CompanyInnovation; Meet Clarice Turner, Innovator; More Lessons from the Restaurant Industry; Make an Emotional Connection; Borrow from Your Competitors; Involve Staff and Customers; 6 Discipline 2: Vision, Strategy, and Alignment: The Progression from Plans to Accomplishments Marks a True Leader; Melvin Takes Over as Hospital Purchasing Manager; How to Share Vision; Five Useful Skills; Align People and Systems behind Your Vision; Vision/Strategy and Alignment; Meet Mollie Katzen, Cookbook Maven; Searching Your Leadership Soul; Sharing Your Vision

Candid CommunicationPositively Negative; Make the Mentoring Commitment; Starting Off on the Right Foot; 7 Discipline 3: Priorities, Planning, and Execution: Execution Cannot Succeed without the Team's Acceptance and Endorsement; Judy Sees the Light; Priorities, Planning, and Execution; Nancy Can't Find Her Way; Identifying Priorities; Productive Planning Meets Effective Execution; The Prophet versus Leader Paradigm; Top 10 Ways to Sabotage Yourself and Your Company; 8 Discipline 4: Social/Emotional/Political Intelligence: The Tribulations of Leadership and Their Remedies; Always Seek Feedback

John Discovers that It's Never Too Late to Learn

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-119-00396-2

OCLC:

894628847