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How to Lead, 3rd Edition
- By Jo Owen
- Published Sep 21, 2011 by FT Press.
- Copyright 2011
- Dimensions: 5 X 9
- Pages: 336
- Edition: 3rd
- Book
- ISBN-10: 0-273-75961-2
- ISBN-13: 978-0-273-75961-4
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Product Author Bios
JO OWEN is a leading authority on leadership and business skills. He is one of the founders of Teach First, now a top ten graduate recruiter in the UK, and of three other charities in education and re-offending. He has built a business in Japan, was a partner at Accenture and has worked with over 100 of the world’s best (and a few of the worst) organisations. He has worked across Asia, Europe and North America in most industries. A top corporate coach and speaker on leadership, tribes, global teams and influence, his other books include How to Lead, How to Manage, How to Influence, How to Sell and Tribal Business School.
Based on original research into some of the world’s best organisations, How to Lead cuts right through all the myths and mysteries to get straight to the heart of what it really takes to motivate, inspire and deliver results.
This unique and brilliant combination of authoritative guidance and stimulating and entertaining advice willhelp you resolve some of the common challenges that every leader will face.
Includes free access to checklists on handy leadership topics such as driving performance, managing time, setting and controlling budgets, dealing with crises and delegating.
This book simply blows you away!!,
This review is from: How to Lead (3rd Edition) (Paperback)
This book is a real gem. It provides real work situations and experiences that people (specially People Managers) come across on a daily basis and how they can and should deal with them.I strongly recommend this book to all People Managers who want to make an impact in their current role.
Leadership guideline at any level...,
This review is from: How to Lead (3rd Edition) (Paperback)
I got promoted a year ago, at the age of 30 and working abroad in a multinational company. I needed a roadmap on my new journey into leadership and I found this book. Simple yet sophisticated, explaining the golden rules of leadership through three stages. The foundation, the practise and mastering the leadership. The part one; the foundations of leadership helped me understand why I got promoted among others. The part two; the practise of leadership is my current recipe to do my leadership job and the final part; mastering the leadership provides me with understanding how I can proceed further in my journey. During my first months, I had to face a critical leadership incident that many managers face once or twice in their journey in my company and the book gave me the guidelines on how to manage the case. If you are new to leadership or you think you have a stagnation after many years in that role, then read this book. I hope there will be a kindle version as well so I can have the...
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
About the third edition
Leadership skills index
Introduction
Part 1 The foundations of leadership
1 Focusing on people
2 Being positive
3 Being professional
Part 2 The practice of leadership
4 Leading from the middle
5 Focusing on people
6 Being positive
7 Being professional
Part 3 Mastering leadership
8 Leading from the top
9 Focusing on people
10 Being positive
11 Being professional
Part 4 The leadership journey
12 The leadership journey
Index
Sample Pages
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