The Leadership Crash Course: How to Create Personal Leadership Value - Softcover

TAFFINDER, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0749446382 ISBN 13: 9780749446383

Publisher: Kogan Page, 2006

Synopsis

Good leaders are in demand. The world is full of managers and desperately short of leaders - real leaders. The Leadership Crash Course is designed to help anyone develop and hone the necessary skills to be a truly effective leader.

Structured in seven parts, this fully revised new edition is a self-improvement course like no other. Readers can analyse their strengths and weaknesses by working through a range of activities and exercises. It's also full of practical hints and tips that will help readers make quick decisions when needed. There is guidance on how to take on a new leadership role with rapid impact, set up and lead a change initiative, communicate change to employees, disturb the organizational culture in order to make things happen, turn your mistakes into successes and mobilize staff so they are all pulling in the same direction.

The Leadership Crash Course is really about creating value, because good leadership moves things forward, creates action and increases the likelihood of growth, attainment and success.

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About this title

About the Author

Paul is the Founder and Managing Partner of Taffinder Consulting, specializing in CEO advice on leadership and organizational performance. Previously, he has been a partner at strategy firm Marakon Associates, a partner on the UK Management Board of Mercer Delta and, prior to that, was a global partner at Accenture, the $22 billion consulting firm, where he was head of Organization and Change Strategy in the UK and had a global role in the firm's work on leadership, culture change and top team effectiveness.

Following a Masters degree and PhD in organizational psychology - and what he describes as a 'mercifully brief career in the mining industry' - Paul turned his attention to the psychological driving forces that underlie the world of business.

He has also written four books, most notably Big Change (Wiley) which was the winner of the prestigious Business Management book of the Year award in 1999 for what the judges called his "inspirational" approach to corporate transformation. His other books (published by Kogan Page) are The New Leaders (1994) and The Leadership Crash Course (2000) and the recently updated, revised edition of The Leadership Crash Course: How to Create Personal Leadership Value (2006), released in 11 different languages worldwide.

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Course 1 Be a manager or a leader 1

1.1 The big difference 1

1.2 Can I learn to be a leader? 3

1.3 Do you prefer to be a leader or a manager? 4

1.4 So what is leadership? 6

1.5 Leadership value 7

1.6 The leadership domain... or how to be a leader 10

1.7 Leadership by e-mail 16

1.8 How to get the best out of the Leadership Crash Course 21

Course 2 Impose context 25

2.1 Cutting through the noise 26

2.2 Know your enterprise! 28

2.3 Provide purpose 32

2.4 Convey proportion 37

2.5 Make rapid impact 42

Course 3 Make risks and take risks 49

3.1 Risk making, risk taking 50

3.2 Focus on opportunity 57

3.3 Try things! 59

3.4 Pull the plug 61

3.5 Do constructive damage to the status quo 64

3.6 Escalate conflict 66

Course 4 Challenge and change 77

4.1 Unpredictability 78

4.2 Create adventure 80

4.3 Take the organization by surprise 84

4.4 Promote the heretics 89

4.5 Make leaps - give up the past to operate in the future 92

Course 5 Have conviction 100

5.1 Conviction 101

5.2 Stand on your own 106

5.3 Display your conviction 109

5.4 Build relationships and trust 112

5.5 Tell it like it is 120

Course 6 Generate critical mass 125

6.1 Doing more than making things happen 126

6.2 Use influencing tactics 131

6.3 Turn knowledge into action 136

6.4 Stay the course 142

6.5 Create and sustain an ethos of human development 146

Course 7 The dominant leadership sub-domains 153

7.1 Dominant leadership patterns 153

7.2 The leadership sub-domains 155

Edition details

• Publisher: Kogan Page
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0749446382
• ISBN 13: 9780749446383
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 192