Mastering Self-Leadership: Empowering Yourself for Personal Excellence - Softcover

Manz, Charles P.; Neck, Christopher C.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0136066453 ISBN 13: 9780136066453

Publisher: Pearson, 2009

Synopsis

For courses in leadership or anyone interested in honing their leadership skills.

The unique approach of this book teaches students to lead others by first learning to lead themselves!

Mastering Self-Leadership is a comprehensive self-help guide that is thoroughly grounded in sound principles and research.  Powerful advice and tools emphasize that proper self-leadership is a precursor for the effective leadership others. Mastering Self-Leadership explores methods for achieving personal goals using self-assessment, self-reward, self-talk, mental imagery, team-think, and other cutting-edge concepts.

The fifth edition has been updated to reflect the latest research. It retains the previous, unique focus and adds new information on emotions.

About this title

About the Author:

Charles C. Manz is a speaker, consultant, and best-selling business author who has written more than 100 articles and 14 books. He won the Stybel-Peabody National Book Award, and his work has been featured in many national business publications, including the Wall Street Journal, Fortune, and Success. He received the prestigious Marvin Bower Fellowship at the Harvard Business School and is currently the Nirenberg Professor of Business Leadership in the School of Management at the University of Massachusetts. His clients have included 3M, Ford, Xerox, General Motors, American Express, and many others.

Christopher P. Neck is a nationally known motivational speaker, consultant, and author. He has been quoted extensively in numerous international outlets, including the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times. His books include Medicine for the Mind: Healing Words to Help You Soar (1997), For Team Members Only: Making Your Workplace Team Productive and Hassle-Free (1997), and The Wisdom of Solomon at Work (2001). He is currently an associate professor of management at Virginia Tech.

From the Back Cover:

Mastering Self-Leadership is a comprehensive self-help guide that is thoroughly grounded in sound principles and research. It effectively addresses the most interesting subject you will ever encounter—yourself. If you want to be more effective in your work and life, this book is for you. Mastering Self Leadership provides powerful advice and the tools for leading yourself to personal excellence. Informative sidebars written by experts in the field are included in this updated third edition, as well as a new chapter focused on the crucial self-leadership challenge of creating good health and fitness. This landmark book offers a practical perspective that should serve as the foundation for the study of management and is grounded in a simple yet revolutionary principle: First learn to lead yourself, and then you will be in a solid position to effectively lead others.

About this edition

• Publisher: Pearson
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0136066453
• ISBN 13: 9780136066453
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 5
• Number of pages: 176