Learning to Lead: The Journey to Leading Yourself, Leading Others, and Leading an Organization. This item is unavailable.Learning to Lead: The Journey to Leading Yourself, Leading Others, and Leading an Organization

This master class on leadership, written by one of America's most prominent and successful health-care executives, enables readers at any career stage to learn the leadership strategies that deliver personal, interpersonal, and organizational success. In Learning to Lead, Ron Williams provides practical, tested leadership advice for readers searching for a new career, professionals looking for proven management solutions, and executives seeking to transform their organizations. Developed from Williams's own personal and professional journey, these strategies emerge boldly from his engaging stories, outlined with practical steps for readers to accomplish goals such as- * Improving career focus * Avoiding professional pitfalls, wrong turns, and wasted effort * Overcoming interpersonal challenges and conflicts * Building and leading an effective team * Prioritizing and solving problems from multiple perspectives * Developing a leadership voice and mastering communication * Casting a vision and changing the culture of an organization After finishing Learning to Lead, readers will be well equipped to take the next step to success in their personal and professional leadership journeys.

Ron Williams is best known for his leadership at Aetna, where he transformed a $292 million operating loss into $2 billion in annual earnings. He has extensive leadership experience, including multiple board memberships, executive coaching clients, and a seat on the President's Management Advisory Board from 2011 to 2017. Williams currently serves as the chairman and CEO of RW2 Enterprises, and as a director for American Express, Boeing, and Johnson & Johnson. He holds an M.S. in management from the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.