Book description
Managing in today?s complex workplace demands a new type of leadership. Twenty-first century managers must lead as visionaries and entrepreneurs, mentors and change agents, team builders and servant-followers. To succeed, today?s managers must increase competitive advantage, improve customer service, nurture a diverse workplace and meet unprecedented global, ethical, and business challenges. Leadership success depends on developing and using the skills that move organizations and people forward toward these common goals and objectives. The fourth edition of Leadership Skills for Managers delivers the knowledge, skills and guidance managers require to become twenty-first century leaders.
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- About This Course
- How to Take This Course
- Pre-Test
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1 What It Means to Be a Leader
- The Need for Leadership
- What Is Leadership?
- Meeting Today’s Biggest Leadership Challenges
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Differences Between Managing and Leading
- Leaders Innovate; Managers Administer
- Leaders Seek Challenges; Managers Seek to Maintain the Status Quo
- Leaders Think Long Term; Managers Think Short to Mid Term
- Leaders Motivate and Inspire; Managers Control
- Leaders Worry About Doing the Right Things; Managers Worry About Doing Things Right
- Leaders Have a Wide Circle of Influence; Managers Have Limited Influence
- Five Leadership Skill Sets to Ensure Performance
- Attitudes and Mindsets
- Leadership Readiness
- Recap
- Review Questions
- 2 Providing Direction
- 3 Leading by Example
- 4 Enabling Others
- 5 Sharing Power
- 6 Seeking a Better Way
- 7 Attitudes and Mindsets
- 8 Making a Leadership Commitment
- Annotated Bibliography
- Post-Test
- Index
Product information
- Title: Leadership Skills for Managers, Fourth Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: April 2004
- Publisher(s): AMA Self-Study
- ISBN: 9780761214274
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