Smart Things to Know About Leadership

Product Description From wannabe to can bethe book on 21stcentury 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 becomingand beingthe kind of leader a truly twentyfirstcentury 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 buildyourownbook format as well as convenient quicktips, essential to providing readers (and soontobe 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. Review the structure enables an awful lot to be communicated very easilythe sheer breadth of coverage makes it well worth considering as a valuable source of smart ideas (Edge, October 2002) From the Inside Flap Smart is a breakthrough series that offers a completely new learning experience for hassled business people. The book delivers all that the fasttrack executive needs to shine and perform. Each book delivers a sharp introduction to the basics as well as experiences and tips from the frontiers of the subject and the insights of the hottest gurus. Smart books have been selected to feature only those subjects which matter most to todays business professional. The Smart series brings these subjects together to equip the next generation with the secrets of success. Each Smart book contains icons, features and signposts to help you use the ideas in your career and business. 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 uptodate 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 majo