Accountability Leadership: How to Strengthen Productivity Through Sound Managerial Leadership
- 4h 2m
- Gerald A Kraines
- Career Press, Inc.
- 2001
Hierarchy and Accountability Are Back In Business
Today's conventional wisdom says that hierarchy is bad and that accountability is stifling at best. Managers are discouraged and confused as to what to do. The answer is simple. Leadership is about leverage. And managerial leaders are accountable for fully leveraging the potential of their company's resources--especially people.
In Accountability Leadership, Gerald Kraines, M.D., a CEO himslef, explains every facet of leadership necessary for managers to realize this potential and deliver. He does so with a clear voice and a powerful mix of common sense and scientific rigor, researched and tested at the prestigious Levinson Institute. He draws on his medical background to construct a set of principles that will allow managers at every level to get the best from their people, teams to adjust rapidly and accountably to change conditions, and processes to function efficiently and responsively. The book explains how you can identify, develop, and fully harness the potential of every employee to deliver ambitious results within an accountability framework.
Accountability Leadership demonstrates how to get your company off the empowerment-bureaucracy roller coster. It provides the blueprint and the practices that will allow every manager to double or triple company productivity and effectiveness.
About the Author
Gerald A. Kraines, M.D., is president and chief executive officer of The Levinson Institute, a Boston-based management-consulting and leadership-development firm, whose mission is to improve the practice of leadership and realize the human potential of organizations. He is also on the faculty of the Harvard Medical School and has written extensively on diverse subjects, including brain chemistry, mental health administration, stress in the workplace, and the role of hierarchy in creating highly adaptive and accountable work systems. He is frequently featured and quoted in the print and electronic press about managerial issues, focusing on bringing both scientific knowledge and common sense back to the workplace.
In this Book
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The Accountable Organization
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LEAD People to Accountability
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Leveraging Potential
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Engaging Commitment
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Aligning Judgment
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Developing Capabilities
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Teams: The Search for Accountability
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Making Processes Work: Accountability, Capability, and Efficiency
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Aligning the Leadership System
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Developing a Talent-Pool System
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Adaptive Leadership
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Taking LEAD on the Road
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From the Annals of Consultation
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