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The John Adair Lexicon of Leadership

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-0-7494-6306-9
Verlag: Kogan Page
Erscheinungstermin: 03.03.2011
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From the world renowned leadership expert John Adair, comes this unique volume of all his classic works, including How to Grow Leaders, The Inspirational Leader, Leadership and Motivation, Not Bosses but Leaders, Strategic Leadership and the international best-seller Leadership of Muhammad.

With his distinctive insight into how leadership is learned, John Adair presents six business books that cross boundaries into culture, history, strategy and motivation. Leadership Lexicon is an essential volume and an exclusive opportunity to own all of Adair's ground-breaking works that will help you transform your understanding of how leadership works and learn the skills to transform you into a leader.

Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9780749463069
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-0-7494-6306-9
  • Verlag: Kogan Page
  • Erscheinungstermin: 03.03.2011
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage 2011
  • Produktform: Gebunden, HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
  • Gewicht: 1056 g
  • Seiten: 512
  • Format (B x H x T): 175 x 250 x 32 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt

Autoren/Hrsg.

Autoren

Adair, John

John Adair is acknowledged internationally as an authority on leadership. The world's first Professor of Leadership Studies, he advises many organisations in business, government, education, health and the voluntary sector. An effective speaker with a valuable message, he is one of the very few figures in recent years to have transformed the debate as to what effective leadership is all about. John Adair has recently been made United Nations Chair of Strategic Leadership. Based in Turin, he has launched a strategic leadership programme in association with the UN. He has also received the Lifetime Achievement in Leadership Award and China has made him its first Honorary Professor of Leadership. The author of over 50 books, now in 25 languages, on leadership and management development, he continues to write and teach throughout the world, inspiring new audiences with his timeless and timely vision of leadership.

Chapter - 00: Introduction; Section - ONE: Not bosses but leaders; Chapter - 01: Qualities of leadership; Chapter - 02: The circles interact; Chapter - 03: Leaders or managers?; Chapter - 04: High-performance teams; Chapter - 05: The purpose of industry; Chapter - 06: Moving from plans to action; Chapter - 07: Sharing and caring; Chapter - 08: Leadership and power; Chapter - 09: Leadership from within; Section - TWO: The inspirational leader; Chapter - 10: The three basic approaches; Chapter - 11: The authority of knowing; Chapter - 12: Levels of leadership; Chapter - 13: Giving and receiving; Chapter - 14: Beyond the call of duty; Chapter - 15: The common task; Chapter - 16: Pulling the threads together; Chapter - 17: The why question; Chapter - 18: The test of leadership; Section - THREE: How to grow leaders; Chapter - 19: The qualities approach; Chapter - 20: The group or functional approach; Chapter - 21: Leaders or managers?; Chapter - 22: The Situational Approach; Chapter - 23: Levels of leadership; Chapter - 23a: How to grow leaders - The seven principles; Section - FOUR: Leadership and motivation; Chapter - 24: Functional Leadership; Chapter - 25: Action-Centred Leadership; Chapter - 26: The Fifty-Fifty Rule; Chapter - 27: Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs; Chapter - 28: The application of Maslow's ideas in industry; Chapter - 29: Herzberg's Motivation - Hygiene Theory; Chapter - 30: How to motivate others: the eight principles of motivation; Chapter - 31: Parting reflections - towards a new theory of motivation; Section - FIVE: Leadership for innovation; Chapter - 32: What is innovation?; Chapter - 33: The conditions for successful innovation; Chapter - 34: Organizing for team creativity; Chapter - 35: Case Study: The DNA Laboratory; Chapter - 36: Case Study: Soichiro Honda - Leader for innovation; Chapter - 37: Real commitment from the top; Chapter - 38: How to motivate the creative individual; Chapter - 39: Team creativity; Chapter - 40: Harvesting ideas; Chapter - 41: Overcoming resistance to change; Section - SIX: The art of creative thinking; Chapter - 42: On human creativity; Chapter - 43: Use the stepping stones of analogy; Chapter - 44: Make the strange familiar and the familiar strange; Chapter - 45: Widen your span of relevance; Chapter - 46: Practise serendipity; Chapter - 47: Chance favours only the prepared mind; Chapter - 48: Curiosity; Chapter - 49: Keep your eyes open; Chapter - 50: Listen for ideas; Chapter - 51: Reading to generate ideas; Chapter - 52: Keep a notebook; Chapter - 53: Test your assumptions; Chapter - 54: Make better use of your Depth Mind; Chapter - 55: Do not wait for inspiration; Chapter - 56: Sharpen your analytical skills; Chapter - 57: Suspend judgement; Chapter - 58: Learn to tolerate ambiguity; Chapter - 59: Drift, wait and obey; Chapter - 60: Sleep on the problem; Chapter - 61: Working it out; Chapter - 62: Think creatively about your life