Leadership
The leadership secrets that experts and top professionals use.Get results fast with this quick, easy guide to the fundamentals of Leadership.Includes how to:• Understand and develop your leadership style• Identify strategic goals for your department• Motivate and manage teams of all sizes• Build a culture of results and responsibility• Lead the way out of a crisis
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Leadership
Secrets
The experts tell all!
Michael Heath
Table of Contents
A memorable leader â for the right reasons!
1.6 Get passionate about your enthusiasm
1.9 Develop yourself or get left behind
1.10 Work to live â live to work
2.1 Transform the abstract into concrete
2.2 Lead but donât forget to manage
2.3 Lead to bring about âclimate changeâ
2.4 Be confident as a strong leader
2.5 Have enough humility to avoid humiliation
3.1 Think of forests â not trees
3.2 Avoid a short-sighted vision
3.3 Strategy: get it into their heads
3.4 Turn your strategy into action
4.1 Get tough with tough decisions
4.3 Mind your way through âroadblocksâ
4.4 Collaborate and make everyone happy
4.5 Fight battles worth winning
4.6 Recruit and encourage âresponse-abilityâ
4.7 Respond to underperfomance
4.8 Negate the negative conflict
5.1 Develop a vision of change everyone sees
5.2 Convince people why they must change
5.3 Be sensitive to the change process
5.8 Innovate for a great Plan B
6.2 Influence: open an account today!
6.3 Give to gain when you network
6.4 Negotiate so everyone wins
7.3 Upset your teamâs thinking
7.4 Mentor your leaders-in-waiting
Over the last 50 years there have been over 1,000 studies to establish what leadership is. How leaders behave. What traits they have. I donât have much time for them, and nor should you. Instead Iâve filled this book with the convictions, skills, beliefs and techniques that great leaders need. The behaviours you see great leaders demonstrating every day.
And what experience am I drawing on? Itâs not only the 20 years or so Iâve been working in the world of leaders as a consultant. But all the other years when I experienced leadership first hand, as a corporate employee. Iâve been around leaders it was a privilege to know and leaders it was dangerous to know. Both extremes â and all the leaders in-between â provided me with insights into what really great leadership is.
So Iâve done all of the research for you. If youâre a leader or an aspiring leader, then let us spend some time together. I want you to be a memorable leader â for all of the right reasons! And Iâm willing to share my 50 secrets of leadership with you. These secrets are spread over seven chapters:
Leadership character. There is a core of behaviours, values and characteristics that great leaders have. Theyâre the backbone that makes them the strong, principled individuals that people look up to.
Leadership responsibilities. Leaders change things. Their responsibilities are to take what they see and reshape it to meet the demands of the world tomorrow.
Leadership strategy. The ability to set a strategic direction is where leaders thrive â or fall. But strategy is much more than the âwhereâ, itâs also the âhowâ and the âwhyâ.
Leadership and execution. Itâs the plain old âgetting it doneâ. Itâs so easy to âtalk the talkâ. But execution is about getting everyone to âwalk the walkâ.
Leadership and change. Change happens. The working world doesnât have a habit of waiting around for others to catch up. But not everyone who works for you is going to think the sameâ¦
Leadership influence. You need friends. Not so much in high places but in the important places. They need nurturing if youâre serious about getting your initiatives off the ground.
Leadership and the team. You need great people around you. You also need to repeatedly challenge them to keep them great. Theyâre going to have to pick up the goals and make them their own.
Dip into the book or read it front to back â whichever you prefer. But promise me this. You wonât skip the questions I ask of you. These questions help you gain the insights into the skills that will turn you into a truly memorable leader.
Great leaders leave their values in the hearts of those who worked for them.
There are different styles of leadership but all of them depend on character. Thatâs why Iâve made character the subject of the first chapter of this book. Later chapters deal with practical aspects of leadership, but first and foremost the leader must possess the essential attributes of leadership: courage, patience, a steely mental toughness and the passion and enthusiasm needed to bring about change. Leadership that doesnât demonstrate these principles is spineless.
