Leadership Secrets: The Experts Tell All!
- 1h 13m
- Michael Heath
- HarperCollins
- 2010
The leadership secrets that experts and top professionals use. Get results fast with this quick, easy guide to the fundamentals of Leadership. Includes how to:
- Understand and develop your leadership style
- Identify strategic goals for your department
- Motivate and manage teams of all sizes
- Build a culture of results and responsibility
- Lead the way out of a crisis
About the Author
Michael Heath is Managing Director of Michael Heath Consulting, a learning and development consultancy established in 1999. Drawing upon 20 years' experience of working with an impressive portfolio of international organizations, he offers a wealth of practical knowledge and insights to address the challenges that leaders face. He is the author of Management, also in the SECRETS series.
In this Book
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Leadership Secrets—The Experts Tell All!
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A memorable leader – for the right reasons!
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Put courage first
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Be mentally tough
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Discipline yourself
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Value your character
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Project confidence
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Get passionate about your enthusiasm
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Patiently does it
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Be a warm touch
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Develop yourself or get left behind
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Work to live – live to work
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Transform the abstract into concrete
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Lead but don’t forget to manage
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Lead to bring about ‘climate change’
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Be confident as a strong leader
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Have enough humility to avoid humiliation
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Open up to people
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Think of forests – not trees
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Avoid a short-sighted vision
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Strategy: get it into their heads
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Turn your strategy into action
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Be a business expert
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Get tough with tough decisions
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Deliver or die
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Mind your way through ‘roadblocks’
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Collaborate and make everyone happy
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Fight battles worth winning
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Recruit and encourage ‘response-ability’
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Respond to underperfomance
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Negate the negative conflict
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Develop a vision of change everyone sees
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Convince people why they must change
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Be sensitive to the change process
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Maintain momentum
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Invite resistance
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Feedback: watch the ball
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Accept ambiguity
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Innovate for a great Plan B
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Get wise to the politics
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Influence: open an account today!
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Give to gain when you network
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Negotiate so everyone wins
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Listen to learn
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Prepare to present
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Write as you lead
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Build an empowered team
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Stretch that team!
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Upset your team’s thinking
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Mentor your leaders-in-waiting
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Trust the virtual team
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Inject life into your teleconference
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Jargon buster
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