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Leadership A to Z : a guide for the appropriately ambitious / James O'Toole. [electronic resource]
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- O'Toole, James.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Leadership.
- Decision making.
- Executive ability.
- Management.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 336 p. )
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco, Calif. : Jossey-Bass Publishers, c1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "Author James O'Toole invests each topic with humor and insight. His approach is light-hearted, his style wonderfully readable. But the lessons he delivers cut to the quick of effective leadership. A master of leadership education and coaching for nearly thirty years, O'Toole's advice stems from his own professional experiences, the experiences of the many outstanding leaders he has known, and research conducted by the world's top business scholars." "Primer, reference, and handbook all in one, Leadership A to Z is the ideal guide for individuals looking to quickly build or improve their leadership skills and for organizations looking to increase leadership capacity throughout their ranks. Think of it as a leadership coach in book form whose only learning prerequisite, as author O'Toole points out, is a disposition toward "appropriate" ambition. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.
- Contents:
- ABB's benchstrength
- ABCs of business success
- Apologia
- Behavior (the meaure of leadership)
- Brownian motivation (Challenging, stretching, and other nonviolent ways to overcome resistance to change)
- Cascading leadership
- Change: no task of leadership (or is it?)
- Changing oneself
- Coherence
- Commitment
- Communication
- Comparative advantage (Why leadership is needed now in Silicon Valley)
- Contradictions, anyone?
- Controlling
- Controls
- Conviction
- Coolidge syndrome
- Definition of leadership
- Delegation
- Denial ("What hump")
- Details
- Differences
- Dunlap, "Chainsaw" Al (the real lesson)
- Early wins
- Effectiveness
- Ego
- Energy
- Engaging the middle
- Expectations, Management of
- Fear and failure
- Focus
- Followership
- Generosity
- Getting started
- Globalism
- Grandstanding
- Guvmint work
- Hangings, Public
- Hierarchy
- Hope
- How not to create followers
- How to create followers
- Inequality
- Intelligence
- Iteration and institutionalization
- Joint leadership
- KISS
- Knowing when to leave
- Leaders (Who's who in the Twentieth Century)
- Lenin, Hitler, et alia
- Listening
- Management of change (vs. Strategic leadership)
- Metrics I (Evaluating individual leadership)
- Metrics II (Assessing an organization's strategic leadership quotient)
- Muddled teams (the Hewlett-Packard way)
- Needs of followers
- Obsession
- Paradoxes
- PeopleSoft?
- Perfection
- Performance (Hard-Edged)
- Perks
- Perspectives
- Power!
- Purpose
- Questions (Asking of)
- R & R
- Reframing
- Repetition, repetition, repetition ...
- Resilience
- Resources
- Second acts
- SHITMs
- Sound bites
- Symbolism
- Teaching
- Team (Selection of the)
- Theories of leadership (Top ten list)
- Tomorrow's leaders?
- Tough guys
- Townsend, Robert
- Training (Why it isn't a useful part of leadership development)
- Transforming leadership
- Transformations, Continued (and continual)
- Up and out (and sideways)
- Vision
- What leaders do, a checklist (and an index)
- Why leaders won't lead
- X-factor
- You, the leader
- Zenith
- Memorandum from Warren Bennis.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- ISBN:
- 0-585-34638-0
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