Effective Leadership - Softcover

Adair, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0330281003 ISBN 13: 9780330281003

Publisher: Macmillan, 1983

Synopsis

The art of good leadership is highly prized and demands a keen ability to appraise, understand and inspire both colleagues and subordinates. Effective Leadership is carefully structures to ensure a steady, easily acquired insight into leadership skills, helping you to:* understand leadership - what you have to be, know and do* develop leadership abilities - defining the task, planning, briefing, controlling and setting an example* grow as a leader - making certain your organisation encourages leaders to emergeJohn Adair, Britain's foremost expert of leadership training, shows how every manager can learn to lead.

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About the Author

John Adair is an international leadership consultant to a wide variety of organizations in business, government, the voluntary sector, education and health, and has been named as one of the forty people worldwide who have contributed most to the development of management thought and practice.

Educated at St Paul’s School, John Adair has enjoyed a varied and colourful career. He served in the Arab Legion, worked as a deckhand on an Artic trawler and had a spell as an orderly in a hospital operating theatre. After Cambridge he became Senior Lecturer in Military History and Leadership Training Adviser at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, before becoming Director of Studies at St George’s House in Windsor Castle and then Assistant Director of the Industrial Society. Later he became the world’s first professor in Leadership Studies at the University of Surrey. He has written over forty books on leadership, management and history, which have been translated into many languages.

John Adair is married with three children. He lives near Guildford in Surrey.

Edition details

• Publisher: Macmillan
• Publication date: 1983
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0330281003
• ISBN 13: 9780330281003
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240