Smart Things to Know About Leadership - Hardcover

Yudelowitz, Jonathan; Koch, Richard J.; Field, Robin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1841121134 ISBN 13: 9781841121130

Publisher: Capstone, 2002

Synopsis

From wannabe to can be - this is a book on 21st-century leadership. The technological and marketplace challenges that only yesterday seemed like speculation are now a reality. The future is here. And so is the best advice available on becoming-and being-the kind of leader a truly twenty-first-century firm needs. Outlining the principles and key ideas of such innovative thinkers as Warren Bennis, Noel Tichy, and Gary Hamel, "Smart Things to Know About Leadership" also describes the seven fundamentals of effective leadership: motivation, learning, strategic sensitivity, communication, global thinking, balance, and courage. This new volume in the "Smart Things to Know" series features its unique "build-your-own-book" format as well as convenient quick-tips, essential to providing readers (and soon-to-be leaders) with an entirely new learning experience. Richard Koch (Twickenham. UK) is an investor, consultant, and entrepreneur and the author of several bestselling books, including "The 80/20 Principle".

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About the Author

JONATHAN YUDELOWITZ is a consultant who works with senior business executives around the world, helping them deal with their leadership issues. His training and experience is in psychology, human resources managment and business. As a consultant, facilitator, university lecturer and researcher, he has applied these skills world--wide, working in the related fields of executive coaching, team development, and organisational change. RICHARD KOCH is an investor, author, consultant and entrepreneur. He has created and transformed businesses worldwide and is the author of numerous best--selling books including Smart Things to Know About Strategy, Break Up!, The Third Revolution and The 80/20 Principle. ROBIN FIELD started his career with Jardine Matheson & Co in the Far East where he ran the largest independent shipping agency in Taiwan. Having gained an MBA with distinction at INSEAD he worked with Richard Koch first at LEK and then Strategy Ventures before becoming Chief Executive and subsequently Chairman of Filofax Group plc. He is now an active non--executive director of a number of public and private companies.

From the Back Cover

Leadership makes people like the 'unlikable'. Leadership insists that things must be done differently. leadership is what can take us into a better world. But in business, leadership is not just about making things different or better. Smart leaders know it is about making money in the process. Whether you are a current or an aspiring leader, Smart Things to Know about Leadership provides a completely up-to-date overview of the current thinking on leadership. Jonathon Yudelowitz, Richard Koch and Robin Field outline the latest theories and principles, derived from their own business successes, and from the wisom of great business thinkers and writers such as Charles Handy, Jack Welch, Mary Parker Follett and Eric Berne. Throughout each chapter, Smart Things to know about Leadership gives you everything you need to know to stay ahead of the field. * Leadership demystified: What are the fundamentals of leadership? How does it differ from management? What are the characteristics of a good leader? Leaders convey a sense of where we are going, even if they have little more idea than the rest of us how the future will unfold. But how do they do this? * Leadership wars: What are the key debates about leadership? Are leaders born or made? Is leadership all hype and no substance? * The triangle of tensions: Leaders struggle in three separate dimensions - the individual identity (who the leader really is), the canned role (the formal expectations, trappings and power of the leadership role) and the emergent process (the messy reality of what is really happening within and around the company). How does the Smart leader reconcile these demands? * Learner leadership: Not only must leaders learn, practise and influence others, but they must also simultaneously teach others to lead. Sounds tricky but with the right stages and processes in place, as shown in the Wheel of Learner leadership, a Smart leader is in the making. * The practical leader: Putting some of the management theory aside, learn five major lessons about practical, common-sense leadership. The practice of leadership is messier and much more complex than the theory. Smart Things to Know About Leadership is a concentrated mixture of wisdom and knowledge. It gives Smart advice on just how to cope with some real emotional challenges too.

Edition details

• Publisher: Capstone
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1841121134
• ISBN 13: 9781841121130
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 204