The Handbook for Leaders: 24 Lessons for Extraordinary Leadership (The McGraw-Hill Professional Education Series) - Softcover

Zenger, John H.; Folkman, Joe

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ISBN 10: 0071435328 ISBN 13: 9780071435321

Verlag: McGraw-Hill Professional, 2003

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<p>These quick reads, based on McGraw-Hill bestsellers, are designed to meet the needs of busy people. Titles in the series focus on each book's main themes and action ideas, reduced to a manageable page count for on-the-go readers.</p><p>A workplace-tested prescription for encouraging the behaviors and key drivers of effective leadership, from one of today's top training teams.</p>

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Jack Zenger is Executive Vice President and a director of Provant, Inc., now the largest performance skills improvement company in the world.

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<p><b>The Handbook for Leaders</b></p><p><b>24 Lessons for Extraordinary Leadership</b></p><p>"What makes a great leader?"</p><p>Thousands of workers in both North America and Europe were asked that one simple question. Their top responses are compiled in <i>The Handbook for Leaders</i>. This precise, no-nonsense rulebook lists the 24 competencies and guidelines identified time and again as essential for becoming an effective and extraordinary leader, including:</p><ul><li>Focus on results </li><li>Cultivate interpersonal skills </li><li>Lead organizational change </li><li>Learn from mistakes </li><li>Develop your people </li><li>Be open to new ideas </li><li>Take initiative </li><li>Build strengths </li><li>Fix fatal flaws </li><li>Take a non-linear approach </li><li>Be accountable </li></ul><p>The ability to lead is far more than just a natural gift. Study after study shows that leadership is a concrete and learnable skill, one that can be acquired and honed by studying and applying specific proficiencies, attitudes, and habits. Let <i>The Handbook for Leaders </i>introduce you to the requirements for effective leadership, then provide you with a systematic program for attaining, developing, and implementing those skills.</p><p><b>John H. (Jack) Zenger, D.B.A.</b>,<b> </b>is executive vice president and a director of Provant, Inc., and the author or coauthor of a number of books on the drivers and principles of leadership, including <i>The Extraordinary Leader </i>and <i>Results-Based Leadership</i>.</p><p><b>Joe Folkman, Ph.D.</b>, is managing director of Novations Group, Inc., and the author of <i>Turning Feedback Into Change</i>, <i>Making Feedback Work</i>, and <i>Employee Surveys That Make a Difference</i>.</p>

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• Verlag: McGraw-Hill Professional
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0071435328
• ISBN 13: 9780071435321
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 64
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