Extraordinary Performance from Ordinary People: Value Creating Corporate Leadership - Softcover

Ward, Keith

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0750683015 ISBN 13: 9780750683012

Verlag: Routledge, 2006

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Extraordinary performance from ordinary people is a must read for the high performing manager with the ambition to reach corporate leadership status. The book is as practical as it is exciting. How to succeed and which personal qualities are required from those who display the capability for great responsibility, are the themes that run throughout. The book focuses on both the key value adding activities and disciplines for driving through change and the styles of corporate leaders that attract success Extraordinary performance from ordinary people highlights how the leaders of the company, as a corporate team, can adopt and adapt the four value creating styles. It emphasises how to recognise which leadership framework suits the challenges of particular competitive environments. This insight nurtures a confidence to act decisively adopting an approach to communication which harnesses the energies of the organisation to achieve stretching performance targets. It concentrates on how leaders make a difference by what they do. Diagnostic models that show what really works and under which circumstances are core to this book.

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Extraordinary Performance from Ordinary People is a must-read for the high performing manager with the ambition to reach corporate leadership status. The book is as practical as it is exciting. How to succeed and which personal qualities are required from those who display the capability for great responsibility, are the themes that run throughout.

The book focuses on both the key value-adding activities and disciplines for driving through change and the styles of corporate leaders that attracts success. The book examines in detail:

* relevant control processes and performance measures
* the different ways in which corporate leaders create value

Four modes of leadership value enhancement are critically examined and supported by insightful case studies. These show how well-considered leadership style positively impacts on the continued success of the firm.

Extraordinary Performances from Ordinary People highlights how the leaders of the company, as a corporate team, can adopt and adapt the four value creating styles. It emphasizes how to recognize which leadership framework suits the challenges of particular competitive environments. This insight nurtures a confidence to act decisively, adopting an approach to communication which harnesses the energies of the organization to acheive stretching performance targets. It concentrates on how leaders make a difference by what they do. Diagnostic models showing what really works and under which circumstances are core to this book.

Relevant and rigorous, this is a necessary text for MBA programmes, and courses and workshops on strategy, governance and corporate leadership.

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• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0750683015
• ISBN 13: 9780750683012
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 272
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