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These books are sorted into the 5 Best Practice categories. Click on any of the 5 boxes below to see the resources listed under that Best Practice. Each listing has a link to amazon.com if you wish to purchase that book. This list contains both new and "classic" versions of the best thinking on these practices and leadership in general. General leadership resources appear at the end of this list.
Click on any Best Practice below to see those listings:
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BP1: HOLDER OF VISION AND VALUES™
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Tough Management: 7 Ways to Make Tough Decisions Easier, Deliver the Numbers, and Grow Business in Good Times and Bad
Chuck Martin |
ISBN: 0071452346
Publisher: McGraw-Hill, 2005 |
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Based on surveys of more than 2,000 senior executives and managers, a refreshing bottom-line approach to what really matters in today's difficult market--and what really works in today's demanding workplace. Seven skills every manager should know.
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Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
James Collins and Jerry Porras |
ISBN: 0060566108
Publisher: Collins, 2004 |
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About visionary companies, specifically about the enduring qualities held by such companies, widely admired for their significant contributions. An interesting book, with glimpses into the inner workings and foundations of successful businesses.
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Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and others Don't
Jim Collins |
ISBN: 0066620996
Publisher: Collins, 2001 |
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Collins says, "The vast majority of companies never become great, precisely because the vast majority become quite good -- and that is their main problem." Competence can actually inhibit achievement. Defines and analyzes the practices that allowed 11 companies to make the rare transition from solid to outstanding performance. Collins's philosophy is summed up in one noteworthy phrase from the book -- "Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out, is largely a matter of conscious choice."
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A Force for Change: How Leadership Differs From Management
John P. Kotter |
ISBN: 0029184657
Publisher: Free Press, 1990 |
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Kotter focuses on the human factors which bring change. He defines what leadership really means today, and how it is different from management, and why both are needed for success, especially in larger organizations and transitional environments. Kotter claims leadership is a process of putting into action thousands of "little acts of leadership" and common sense ideas and procedures which when combined with competent management can yield profound results.
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The Heart of Change: Real-Life Stories of How People Change Their Organizations
John Kotter and Dan Cohen |
ISBN: 1578512549
Publisher: Harvard Business School Press; 2002 |
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Kotter and Cohen have culled, from 100s of interviews conducted by Deloitte Consulting, the 34 most instructive and vivid accounts of companies undergoing large-scale change. They also utilize the compare-and-contrast format for lively "how-to/how-not-to" discussion. "The single biggest challenge in the process is changing people's behavior," they insist, while providing convincing evidence.
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The John Deere Way: Performance that Endures
David Magee |
ISBN: 0471706442
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2005 |
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John Deere's success (since 1837) comes largely from its core values, which includes growing on the strengths of the company's roots, building and maintaining a reputation for integrity, working the brand, creating change primarily through innovation, and cultivating win-win relationships. Timeless business lessons from one of America's top brands.
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Visionary Leadership
Burt Nanus |
ISBN: 0787901148
Publisher: Jossey-Bass Inc., Publishers, 1995 |
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The author shows why vision is the key to leadership and demonstrates how any leader can use a logical, step-by-step process to create and implement a powerful new sense of direction in his or her organization. He uses practical examples about finding the right vision, conducting vision audits, testing reality, vision context, implementing vision - and adding the re-visioning process.
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Lasting Change: The Shared Values Process That Makes Companies Great
Lebow and Simon |
ISBN: 0471328472
Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated, 1999 |
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Vital for understanding the value of operating with a set of guiding principles and commitment to high levels of interactive values by getting people to work together effectively. Chapter titles include: Values-Based Workplace, Consensus Building, Responsibility and Decision-Making, People Systems and Customer Processes. All of these lead to The Path to Lasting Change. Lebow's patented Shared Values Process is a powerful management approach based on research with more than 17 million employees.
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The Strategy Workout: A Journey of the Heart of Your Business
Cyril Levicki |
ISBN: 0273624423
Publisher: Pearson Education, Limited, 1997 |
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Levicki's book is a hands-on approach that identifies the key factors in determining and implementing the right strategic direction. It takes you through the following exercises: Define your mission, examine your market environment, study your competitors, apply strategic analysis inside the business, understand your culture, define a long-term strategy, select your short-term tactics, and master the difficulties of implementation and execution of the plan.
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BP2: CREATOR OF COLLABORATION AND INNOVATION™
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Mastering the Art of Creative Collaboration
Robert Hargrove |
ISBN: 0070264090
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies, Series: BusinessWeek Bks., 1997 |
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A book about human behavior and spirit and a new concept in management that propels people into action and creates limitless possibilities. Beyond the notion of traditional teamwork, creative collaboration maximizes the talents and diversity of the group to reach shared goals, solve complex problems, and generate creative breakthroughs. He also offers a simple but powerful recipe to introduce creative collaboration into any group environment.
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Trust: The One Thing That Makes or Breaks a Leader
Les T. Csorba |
ISBN: 0785261540
Publisher: Nelson Business, 2004 |
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Nearly every recent crisis--corporate bankruptcies, political scandals, moral failures in the church--can be traced to a leadership deficit. The common denominator? Broken trust. Trust is the most indispensable force between leaders and followers. Csorba offers observations gleaned from two decades of experience in government, business, church, and family. Part meditation, part how-to manual, the book features interactive elements such as The Leader Check: a guide to evaluating whether you are developing the trust necessary to motivate and richly lead followers.
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Trust in the Balance: Building Successful Organizations on Results, Integrity, and Concern
Robert B. Shaw |
ISBN: 0787902861
Publisher: Jossey-Bass; 1997 |
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Trust - the best asset of all. Business either succeeds in the presence of trust, or is retarded by the presence of distrust. Robert Shaw gives conviction and advice to the leader who recognizes that trust becomes a performance multiplier only when the leader is prepared to go first. Robert Shaw moves past the right thing to do argument and focuses on trust as a critical issue successful managers cannot take for granted. A vital handbook for leaders, change agents, and anyone interested in building high trust for high performance.
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The Skilled Facilitator: Practical Wisdom for Developing Groups
Roger Schwarz |
ISBN: 0787947237
Publisher: Jossey-Bass; 2nd edition (2002) |
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Almost everything a Legacy Leader® does involves facilitation. This book has simple recipes for raising the bar on this extremely important part of your leadership. Schwarz shows what makes a group effective and how a facilitator can improve group effectiveness by identifying patterns of behavior that are getting in the way, helping the group stick to a few critical ground rules, and encouraging them to deal more openly with conflict.
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Facilitation at a Glance
Ingrid Bens |
ISBN: 1890416053
Publisher: Goal/QPC, 1999 |
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A helpful little pocket guide with condensed information including a set of tools and techniques, in a simplified format for leaders who want the most from the meetings they facilitate. Full of checklists, tools and techniques. Clear layout, ideal resource at meetings, or on your desk. Comprehensive guide.
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Thought Leaders: Insights on the Future of Business
Joel Kurtzman, Editor |
ISBN: 078793903X
Publisher: Jossey-Bass Business and Management Series, 1998 |
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This book explains how "thought leadership," or cutting edge thinking, assists leaders and their companies in avoiding missteps in the future. Leaders will focus on shared learning, continual improvement and greater entrepreneurship. Kurtzman gathered the best thinking from 12 of the top thought leaders in the world of business for an explanation of what thought leaders do and how their leadership impacts their organizations.
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"The Weird Rules of Creativity: You Know How to Manage For Efficiency and Productivity, but if it's Creativity You Want, Chances are You're Doing it all Wrong"
Robert Sutton |
ISBN: B000065T6N
Publisher: Harvard Business Review, September 2001 |
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Sutton believes that when it comes to innovation and creativity, leaders should take most of what they know about management and stand it on its head. He uses vivid examples to outline several new approaches to hiring, managing creative people, and dealing with risk and randomness in innovation. The result is that people can see old problems in new ways and help their companies break from the past. The book is also available (below).
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Weird Ideas That Work: 11 1/2 Practices for Promoting, Managing, and Sustaining Innovation
Robert Sutton |
ISBN: 0743212126
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group, 2001 |
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Filled with examples of each of Sutton's 11 1/2 practices, drawn from high- and low-tech industries, manufacturing and services, information and products. More than just a set of bizarre suggestions, it represents a breakthrough in management thinking: Sutton shows that the practices we need to sustain performance are in constant tension with those that foster new ideas.
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BP3: INFLUENCER OF INSPIRATION AND LEADERSHIP™
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Leadership Presence: Dramatic Techniques to Reach Out, Motivate and Inspire
Belle Halpern and Kathy Lubar |
ISBN: 1592400175
Publisher: Gotham, 2003 |
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Halpern and Lubar have applied the lessons and expertise they have learned as performing artists to help executives, from high-profile CEOs to young professionals seeking promotion, develop leadership presence. A practical, proven approach to develop the skills necessary to inspire confidence, command respect, build credibility, and motivate others.
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The 360 Leader: Developing your influence from anywhere in the organization
John Maxwell |
ISBN: 0785260927
Publisher: Nelson Business, 2005 |
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99 percent of all leadership occurs not from the top but from the middle of an organization. Usually, an organization has only one person who is the leader. So, what do you do if you are not that one person? You can learn to develop your influence from wherever you are in the organization by becoming a 360-degree leader. You can learn to lead up, lead across and lead down. Only 360-degree leaders influence people at every level of the organization. Includes password for online assessment.
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Executive EQ: Emotional Intelligence in Leadership and Organizations
Robert Cooper |
ISBN: 0399524045
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA), 1996 |
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A Legacy Leader® has high levels of emotional intelligence. This book tells you what EQ is, how to develop it, and how to put it into action. The authors' research shows that executives with strong EQ, as well as a strong IQ, are the ones who make the best decisions, the most dynamic businesses, and the most satisfying and successful lives.
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Achieving Success Through Social Capital
Wayne Baker |
ISBN: 0787953091
Publisher: Josey Bass, 2000 |
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A hands-on guide through the process of evaluating, building, and using your social capital. Includes why social capital is so important; the strengths and weaknesses of networks; the types of networks that yield the best results; 30 proven practices to build entrepreneurial networks; how to use social capital ethically and invoke the power of reciprocity; how to energize your firm by building social capital as a core competence; and how to thrive in the Network Society.
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Confidence: How Winning Losing Streaks Begin and End
Rosabeth Moss Kanter |
ISBN: 1400052904
Publisher: Crown Business, 2004 |
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Kanter explains the role confidence plays in the performance of institutions and individuals. Losing streaks are often created and then perpetuated when people lose confidence in their leaders and systems, while winning streaks are fueled by confident people who are secure in their own abilities and the ability of their leaders.
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Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High
Patterson, et al |
ISBN: 0071401946
Publisher: McGraw-Hill, 2002 |
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A crucial conversation, as opposed to a casual exchange, is a discussion between two or more people about tough issues with varying opinions, high stakes, and strong emotions. Pertinent to everyone who needs to communicate better, and the light-hearted tone gets their points across clearly. Points and suggestions are made with an abundance of familiar stories and tales of positive role models. Valuable lessons about mastering content, recognizing what works and why, and developing the skills to take actions that lead to successful, high-impact dialogue.
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Crucial Confrontations: Tools for Resolving Broken Promises, Violated Expectations and Bad Behavior
Patterson, et al |
ISBN: 0071446524
Publisher: McGraw-Hill, 2004 |
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Fear of confrontation prevents people from resolving issues, and simple problems grow into chronic problems. Develop the skills it takes to resolve the most pressing problems, including quality violations, safety infractions, cost-cutting mistakes, and even medical errors. The skills for mastering crucial confrontations can be learned; this book shows you how. Learn how to hold people accountable in a way that solves problems without causing new ones. Learn how to hold crucial confrontations and never have to walk away from another conflict.
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The Leader of the Future
The Drucker Foundation Editors, Hesselbein, Goldsmith and Beckhard |
ISBN: 0787909351
Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated Series: Drucker Foundation Future Series, #20, 1999 |
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This book suggests that leaders of the future need the necessary attributes of: (1) a belief in oneself that has the leader be able to ask others to follow where no one has gone before, (2) a passion for the job that provides energy and focus that drive the organization, while acting as an example for others and continuous learning, and (3) a love of people so that they are willing to follow. Of particular note is Chapter 10 by Kouzes and Posner and Chapter 11 by Heskett and Schlesinger. All of the chapter authors remind the reader that leadership is about the people. |
This book has been updated: The Leader of the Future 2: Visions, Strategies, and Practices for the New Era, |
ISBN: 0787986674, Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 2006
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Leading Without Power: Finding Hope in Serving Community
Max DePree |
ISBN: 0787967432
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons; Reprint edition 2003 |
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DePree suggests that people follow leaders because of the promise of meaningful work and lives fulfilled. This book looks at the forces that drive selfless accomplishment. It offers encouragement and hope for creating organizations that inspire the very best in people. Written in very conversational style, this small book is rich in wisdom and advice about what works. The chapter titled "Trust Me" describes the compelling necessity for trust for leadership to be successful.
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The Emotionally Intelligent Workplace: How to Select for, Measure, and Improve Emotional Intelligence in Individuals, Groups and Organizations
Cherniss and Goleman |
ISBN: 0787956902
Publisher: Jossey-Bass Inc., Business and Management Series, 2001 |
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Research during the last 25 years has consistently pointed to a set of competencies-some purely cognitive but most emotional-such as self-confidence, initiative and teamwork as making a significant difference in the performance of individuals. This book not only explains the depth of emotional intelligence in impact but reveals research to prove dramatic bottom-line results. As we have said in our model, we believe that creating the environment (climate) in which people can thrive is critical to peak performance. One of the studies showed that the climate created by CEOs among their direct reports predicted the business performance of the entire organization, and in 3/4s of the cases climate alone could be used to correctly sort companies by profits and growth.
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Who Moved My Cheese? An Amazing Way to Deal With Change in Your Work and In Your Life
Spencer Johnson |
ISBN: 0399144463
Publisher: Putnam, 1998 |
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This little book is studied by many individuals as well as teams as a way to quickly understand what gets people stuck and resistant to change. Through an entertaining parable you can discover for yourself how to deal with change so that you can enjoy less stress and more success in your work and in your life.
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Leadership & the Art of Conversation
Kim Krisco |
ISBN: 0761510303
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group, 1997 |
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Since building strong relationships is a cornerstone of Legacy Leadership®, this is a must read book and one of the few that includes language scripts for examples of conversations that will change the way people respond to you. You will learn how to use ordinary conversations to boost productivity, inspire peak performance, and achieve unprecedented success.
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Smart Questions: The Essential Strategy for Successful Managers
Dorothy Leeds |
ISBN: 0425176592
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA), 2000 |
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Whether you lead a small or large population, asking the right questions at the right times can make a huge difference. Besides being skilled at listening, asking both questions to draw out deeper thinking and questions that address the tough issues that no one else may see is a critical success factor. This book helps guide you to upgrade the levels of your inquiry.
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Lions Don't Need to Roar: Using the Leadership Power of Professional Presence to Stand out, Fit in and Move Ahead
D.A. Benton |
ISBN: 0446516678
Publisher: Warner Books, Incorporated, 1992 |
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Leadership ability requires more than capability alone; it requires professional presence. The book covers everything from how you present yourself to using speech and silence effectively, people skills, storytelling, asking questions, humor and have "guts" (the courage to do what others don't).
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Lincoln on Leadership: Executive Strategies for Tough Times
Donald T. Phillips |
ISBN: 0446394599
Publisher: Warner Books, Incorporated, 1993 |
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Phillips describes the leadership qualities that made President Lincoln so effective when the whole world was changing drastically. You will enjoy this quick read and study which includes chapters such as: Get Out of the Office and Circulate Among the Troops, Persuade Rather Than Coerce, Never Act Out of Vengeance, Have the Courage to Handle Unjust Criticism, Keep Searching Until You Find Your "Grant", Influence People Through Conversation and Storytelling and Preach a Vision and Continually Reaffirm It. An insightful look at how Lincoln's expertise in leadership transformed a nation; describes how these skills can be incorporated into today's society by following his examples and wisdom.
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BP4: ADVOCATOR OF DIFFERENCES AND COMMUNITY™
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The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization
Peter Senge |
ISBN: 0385517254
Publisher: Doubleday, 2006 |
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"In The Fifth Discipline, Peter Senge describes how companies can rid themselves of the learning "disabilities" that threaten their productivity and success by adopting the strategies of learning organizations - ones in which new and expansive patterns of thinking are nurtured, collective aspiration is set free, and people are continually learning how to create results they truly desire." The revised and updated Currency edition of this business classic contains over one hundred pages of new material.
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Now Discover Your Strengths
Marcus Buckingham and Donald Clifton |
ISBN: 0743201140
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Trade, 2001 |
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"Leader" cultures are "strengths-based" cultures. The Gallup International Research Center has the Strengths Finder assessment. Most leaders don't spend enough time helping people know what their talents and gifts (and thereby their passions) are and how to use those strengths best. Everyone's strengths are different! With the purchase of this book, you are given a password to visit their website to identify your own strengths profile. The idea is to spend time and investment in our strengths, rather than our weaknesses. People are happier and more satisfied in their work that way. This tool is helpful to know yourself better as well as your people.
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The Talent Management Handbook: Creating Organizational Excellence by Identifying, Developing and Promoting Your Best People
Edited by: Lance Berger and Dorothy Berger |
ISBN: 0071414347
Publisher: McGraw-Hill, 2003 |
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Explains how organizations can identify and get the most out of "high-potential people" by developing and promoting them to key positions. Will help you design career plans that boost employee morale, as well as create and sustain excellence in your organization. It is full of simple, efficient, easy-to-follow methods for assessing, planning, and developing high-value people to meet your organization's current and future needs.
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Leading People: The 8 Proven Principles for Success in Business
Robert Rosen |
ISBN: 0140242724
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA), 1997 |
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Organizational success in today's business environment won't come from cost cutting or technology alone-it depends on people, and people depend on leaders to liberate their competence, creativity, and commitment. Rosen presents 8 principles of leadership, all of which relate to LL principles. Pay closest attention to the sections on Trust, Participation, Diversity and Community. Rosen agrees that understanding differences in our work and life communities goes way beyond just the obvious ethnic, gender, etc. diversity.
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Patterns of High Performance: Discovering the Ways People Work Best
Jerry Fletcher |
ISBN: 1881052702
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., 1995 |
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Besides discovering the unique strengths available in your team, you will also want to know the differing patterns of working that allows individuals to be the most engaged and successful. By finding your own as well as workers you lead, you will be able to find new ways of working with colleagues in a difficult situation, get critical projects back on track, hold strong values while executing a tough corporate decision, and decide on the best job for yourself and others.
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The Connective Edge: Leading in an Interdependent World
Jean Lipman-Blumen |
ISBN: 0787902438
Publisher: Jossey-Bass Inc., Publishers, Series: Business and Management Series, 1996 |
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Global interdependence is accelerating and decisions anywhere affect everyone everywhere, kaleidoscopically. This is true for both businesses and communities. Leaders must have an ability to bring diverse perspectives and strengths to the table, while fostering interdependence on each other for having the best outcomes possible. Leaders now must display both mutuality (a focus on common interest and values) and inclusiveness (the willingness to include even those very different from the rest, without requiring their homogenization.)
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BP5: CALIBRATOR OF RESPONSIBILITY AND ACCOUNTABILITY™
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Quiet Leadership: Six Steps to Transforming Performance at Work
David Rock |
ISBN: 0060835907
Publisher: Collins, 2006 |
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Improving human performance involves one of the hardest challenges in the known universe: changing the way people think. A brain-based approach that will help busy leaders, executives, and managers improve their own and their colleagues' performance. Quiet Leadership offers a practical, six-step guide to making permanent workplace performance change by unleashing higher productivity, new levels of morale, and greater job satisfaction.
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Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done
Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan and Charles Burck |
ISBN: 0609610570
Publisher: Crown Business, 2002 |
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A unique and indispensable guide to corporate strategy that focuses on the quality most essential to every business -- the ability to get things done. "Execution is a systematic process of rigorously discussing hows and whats, questioning, tenaciously following through, and ensuring accountability." If you want to create an organization in which strategic planning and day-to-day operations are supported by tangible results, then this book will be an invaluable guide.
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QBQ! The Question Behind the Question: Practicing Personal Accountability in Business and in Life
John G. Miller |
ISBN: 0399152334
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA), 2004 |
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Miller makes the case for personal accountabilities that leaders need to foster with those they lead. He shows a leader discipline of questioning behind the question (QBQ™) then applies the discipline to principles of learning, service, courage, excellence, ownership, creativity, trust, clarity integrity and belief. A practical method for putting personal accountability into daily action.
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Executive Coaching with Backbone and Heart: A Systems Approach to Engaging Leadership
Mary Beth O'Neill |
ISBN: 0787950165
Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 2000 |
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Sound direction on how to coach top executives. The author outlines a dynamic approach to coaching leaders developed over the course of a 20-year career. Her unique perspective and sage advice, backed by a specific four-phase methodology, shows the means to successfully manage the coach-client relationship and effect dramatic changes that ensure the business outcomes leaders want.
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Results Based Leadership: How Leaders Build the Business and Improve the Bottom Line
Ulrich, Zenger and Smallwood |
ISBN: 0875848710
Publisher: Harvard Business School Press, 1999 |
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Probably the best book that relates to ongoing calibration of goals toward results. The authors explore a hands-on approach to connecting leadership attributes with results. They show how to deliver results for employees, the organization, its customers, and its investors that can be measured and integrated into any business strategy or corporate culture. Thus, leaders will be able to deliver real leadership results.
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Accountability: Getting a Grip on Results
Klatt, Murphy and Irvine |
ISBN: 0893842818
Publisher: Bow River Publishing, 2003 |
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Gaining commitment to accountabilities is critical for leaders. This practical book will help you gain that commitment for yourself as well as from those you lead. The authors define the nature of the accountability crisis affecting organizations, and in a very practical form provide both the inspiration and the template for building Accountability Agreements within any organization, regardless of size or purpose.
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Performance Scorecards: Measuring the Right Things in the Real World
Chang and Morgan |
ISBN: 0787952729
Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated, 2000 |
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This book provides a clear and concise guide to developing a measurement system. It is a practical, easy to read book, with a practical approach to calibration by telling you where, when, and how measurement could be done. It makes a complex subject easy to understand and easy to apply. Discusses how Performance Scorecards can be customized to measure whatever factors most influence a company's success.
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Masterful Coaching
Robert Hargrove |
ISBN: 0787960845
Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated. 2002 (revised) |
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We could have placed this book within all 5 best practice areas. However, since coaching is best known as a strong way to have people reach peak performance and outcomes, this book is a must read for BP5. It shows you how to unearth what people passionately care about, reach breakthrough goals, and implement transformational change. You will find ideas and methods to make the difference in people's accomplishments both professionally and relationally.
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GENERAL LEGACY LEADERSHIP®
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John P. Kotter On What Leaders Really Do
John Kotter |
ISBN: 0875848974
Publisher: Harvard Business School Publishing, 1999 |
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A must read to understand the differences and similarities between management and leadership. In order to reorganize time spent on leadership, one must first realize activities that move beyond management to fit within the context of real-time leadership. A collection of his HBR articles with new introductory materials.
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How the Best Get Better
Dan Sullivan |
ISBN: 1896635296
Publisher: The Strategic Coach (May 1, 2005) |
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Must read for a simple concept called "the ceiling of complexity." Among several other helpful concepts, this idea addresses how one cannot move beyond current organization of work life unless delegating to others. Only when the leader delegates do others benefit from the learning they have by taking on these new tasks; thus, creating another way to develop others.
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Learning Journeys: Top Management Experts Share Hard-Earned Lessons on Becoming Great Mentors and Leaders
Goldsmith, Kaye and Shelton |
ISBN: 0891061479
Publisher: Consulting Psychologists Press, Inc., 2000 |
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This book is a compilation of the best thinking of today's most successful leaders and how they reach their full potential by valuing learning: how to learn, learning from all of life, and being life-long learners. Each chapter presents a lesson reflecting an important learning moment in the contributor's life and career. Includes questions at the end of each chapter to help readers apply lessons.
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Leadership: A Communication Perspective
Hackman and Johnson |
ISBN: 1577662849
Publisher: Waveland Press, Inc., 4th Edition, 2003 |
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An up-to-date look at leadership theories. Skill-building exercises and self-awareness inventories provide a hands-on feel for theory. Essential topics include: leader-follower relationships, charisma, empowerment, compliance-gaining, collaboration tactics, team leadership, diversity and gender issues, and ethics. This trend-setting textbook continues the tradition of providing students with a solid foundation for understanding and using the practical skill of leadership in all communication settings.
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Level 5 Leadership: The Triumph of Humility and Fierce Resolve
Article by Jim Collins |
ISBN: B00005REID
Publisher: Harvard Business Review, 2001 |
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You would think this article was written about Legacy Leadership®. It portrays the characteristics of a Legacy Leader as much as our Five Best Practices lays out the desired competencies for being masterful at this type of leadership.
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