Discover Your True North - Hardcover

George, Bill

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1119082943 ISBN 13: 9781119082941

Verlag: Wiley & Sons, 2015

Inhaltsangabe

The Leadership Classic, Discover Your True North, expanded for today's leadersDiscover Your True North is the best-selling leadership classic that enables you to become an authentic leader by discovering your True North. Originally based on first-person interviews with 125 leaders, this book instantly became a must-read business classic when it was introduced in 2007. Now expanded and updated to introduce 48 new leaders and new learning about authentic global leaders, this revisited classic includes more diverse, global, and contemporary leaders of all ages. New case studies include Warren Buffett, Indra Nooyi, Arianna Huffington, Jack Ma, Paul Polman, Mike Bloomberg, Mark Zuckerberg, and many others. Alongside these studies, former Medtronic CEO Bill George continues to share his personal stories and his wisdom by describing how you can become the leader you want to be, with helpful exercises included throughout the book.Being a leader is about much more than title and management skills--it's fundamentally a question of who we are as human beings. Discover Your True North offers a concrete and comprehensive program for becoming an authentic leader, and shows how to chart your path to leadership success.Once you discover the purpose of your leadership, you'll find the true leader inside you. This book shows you how to use your natural leadership abilities to inspire and empower others to excellence in today's complex global world. Discover Your True North enables you to become the leader you were born to be, and stay on track of your True North.

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BILL GEORGE, former CEO of Medtronic, is a Senior Fellow at Harvard Business School (HBS), where he teaches leadership in executive education programs. He was professor of management practice from 2004 to 2014. He is the author of four bestselling books: Authentic Leadership, True North, Finding Your True North, and 7 Lessons for Leading in Crisis, and coauthor of True North Groups with Doug Baker. He serves on the boards of Goldman Sachs, Mayo Clinic, and World Economic Forum, and has served on the board of ExxonMobil, Novartis, and Target.

Start your own journey to discover your True North at www.DiscoverYourTrueNorth.org.

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This leadership classic enables you to discover your True North, the internal compass that guides you successfully through life. When you follow your True North, you can unlock your full potential as a leader and human being.

Discover Your True North offers a concrete and comprehensive guide for becoming an authentic leader, and reveals how you can chart your path to success. As you embark on this journey, you'll encounter first-hand stories of 101 leaders across the globe and learn how they discovered their True North. Among them are the poignant and revealing stories of Warren Buffett, Howard Shultz, Paul Polman, Indra Nooyi, Arianna Huffington, Jack Ma, Michael Bloomberg, and Mark Zuckerberg, along with some who lost their way like Rajat Gupta and Lance Armstrong.

Once you discover the purpose of your leadership, you'll find the true leader inside you, enabling you to inspire and empower others as authentic leaders. Discover Your True North helps you to stay on track of your True North in today's complex global world by:

• Cultivating self-awareness
• Defining your values
• Finding the "sweet spots" of your motivated capabilities
• Building your support team and leading an integrated life
• Making the journey from "I" to "We" as an empowering leader
• Becoming a global leader

When you discover your True North, you will make a difference in the world and leave a lasting legacy.

Discover Your True North is an expanded and updated edition of True North, which became a must-read business classic when it was introduced in 2007. Bill George's latest book contains more than 60 percent new content, including profiles of 101 authentic leaders, and exercises after each chapter that enable you to become the leader you want to be.

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This leadership classic enables you to discover your True North, the internal compass that guides you successfully through life. When you follow your True North, you can unlock your full potential as a leader and human being.

Discover Your True North offers a concrete and comprehensive guide for becoming an authentic leader, and reveals how you can chart your path to success. As you embark on this journey, you'll encounter first-hand stories of 101 leaders across the globe and learn how they discovered their True North. Among them are the poignant and revealing stories of Warren Buffett, Howard Shultz, Paul Polman, Indra Nooyi, Arianna Huffington, Jack Ma, Michael Bloomberg, and Mark Zuckerberg, along with some who lost their way like Rajat Gupta and Lance Armstrong.

Once you discover the purpose of your leadership, you'll find the true leader inside you, enabling you to inspire and empower others as authentic leaders. Discover Your True North helps you to stay on track of your True North in today's complex global world by:

• Cultivating self-awareness
• Defining your values
• Finding the "sweet spots" of your motivated capabilities
• Building your support team and leading an integrated life
• Making the journey from "I" to "We" as an empowering leader
• Becoming a global leader

When you discover your True North, you will make a difference in the world and leave a lasting legacy.

Discover Your True North is an expanded and updated edition of True North, which became a must-read business classic when it was introduced in 2007. Bill George's latest book contains more than 60 percent new content, including profiles of 101 authentic leaders, and exercises after each chapter that enable you to become the leader you want to be.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1119082943
• ISBN 13: 9781119082941
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: WROX; https://www.wiley.com/en-us; ; 111 River Street; Hoboken; NJ; 7030; USA
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