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First-Time Leader: Foundational Tools for Inspiring and Enabling Your New Team
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First-Time Leader: Foundational Tools for Inspiring and Enabling Your New Team

by George B. Bradt, Gillian Davis
February 2014
Beginner
240 pages
5h 8m
English
Wiley
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Contents

Acknowledgments

Part I: Getting Started

Chapter 1: Overview: Congratulations! It’s Great to Be a Leader. You’ve Earned It. And Your New Job Is Going to Be a Wild Ride

Part I: Getting Started

Part II: Build Your BRAVE Leadership from the Outside In

Part III: Leading Small, Medium, and Large Teams

Chapter 2: Take Charge of Your New Team

Moving into Your First Leadership Role from Outside

Getting Promoted to Your First Leadership Role from Within

Summary: Take Charge of Your New Team

Chapter 3: The BRAVE Leadership Success Framework: Behaviors, Relationships, Attitude, Values, Environment

Behaviors: How You Get Things Done through Other People

Relationships: The Heart of Leadership

Attitude: Make Crucial Choices around Your Team’s Strategy, Posture, and Culture

Values: Align Yourself and Your Team with the Organization’s Mission, Vision, and Values—More or Less

Environment: Get Clear on Your Mission and Fields of Action

Building up the BRAVE Leadership Framework from the Outside In

Part II: Build Your BRAVE Leadership from the Outside In

Chapter 4: Environment: Get Clear on Your Mission and Fields of Action

Understand Context

Align around an Interpretation of the Situation Assessment

Make Clear Choices around Where to Play and Where Not to Play

Summary: Where to Play

Chapter 5: Values: Align Yourself and Your Team with the Organization’s Mission, Vision, and Values—More or Less

The Secret of Happiness

Link between Happiness and Purpose

Mission

Vision

Values

Coherence

Summary: ...

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