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Product Description
Review
"…the structure enables an awful lot to be communicated very easily…the 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 fast–track 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 today's 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 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.
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.
ISBN - 9781841121130
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