The Leadership Book

The Leadership Book

by Mark Anderson
Released November 2010
Publisher(s): Pearson Business
ISBN: 9780273732051

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Book description

THE BOOK YOU CAN RELY ON WHENEVER YOU FACE A LEADERSHIP CHALLENGE

The demands of a leader can be many, varied and difficult. The Leadership Book picks out the 10 top challenges that leaders face on a daily basis and shows how to maximise the performance of leaders and their teams in each of these situations. Each of the 10 sections pins down:

·         exactly what the issue is

·         the challenges it can throw up

·         key leadership actions for to take

·         the measures of success

·         the pitfalls to watch out for

·         a leadership summary to give a quick overview of the highlights of each issue

·         cross-references to related issues

A lifelong companion suitable for any leader, you can dip into sections as and when you need to deal with a particular issue, making for a must-have guide for you to refer back to again and again.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. The Leadership Book (1/2)
  3. The Leadership Book (2/2)
  4. Contents
  5. About the author
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Introduction
  8. Part 1 Your leadership self
    1. First days in the job
    2. Demeanour: setting the tone (1/2)
    3. Demeanour: setting the tone (2/2)
    4. Leadership principles
    5. Trusting your instincts
    6. Focusing on what matters
    7. Managing meetings
    8. Time management
    9. You and your bossThis (1/2)
    10. You and your bossThis (2/2)
  9. Part 2 Vision and strategy: the leadership mantra
    1. Setting and selling a Vision (1/2)
    2. Setting and selling a Vision (2/2)
    3. Leading strategy (1/2)
    4. Leading strategy (2/2)
    5. International markets and strategy (1/2)
    6. International markets and strategy (2/2)
    7. Leadership priorities
  10. Part 3 Your leadership team
    1. Defining your leadership team
    2. Managing your leadership team
    3. 121s
    4. Your team is more skilled than you
    5. Team members in other countries (1/2)
    6. Team members in other countries (2/2)
  11. Part 4 Leading your organisation
    1. Credibility from repetition
    2. Resistance to change (1/2)
    3. Resistance to change (2/2)
    4. Process: making the right things happen at the right time (1/2)
    5. Process: making the right things happen at the right time (2/2)
    6. Staff meetings (1/2)
    7. Staff meetings (2/2)
    8. Collaborating with sister businesses (1/2)
    9. Collaborating with sister businesses (2/2)
  12. Part 5 Leading performance excellence
    1. Managing change (1/2)
    2. Managing change (2/2)
    3. People performance management (1/2)
    4. People performance management (2/2)
    5. Interpersonal conflict (1/2)
    6. Interpersonal conflict (2/2)
    7. The difficult interview (1/2)
    8. The difficult interview (2/2)
    9. Objectives and incentives (1/2)
    10. Objectives and incentives (2/2)
  13. Part 6 Customers: leading you
    1. The importance of the customer
    2. The customer journey 1: customer experience
    3. The customer journey 2: technology journey
    4. Sell! Sell! Sell! (1/2)
    5. Sell! Sell! Sell! (2/2)
  14. Part 7 Marketing: leading the market
    1. Marketing is everyone (1/2)
    2. Marketing is everyone (2/2)
    3. Branding and organisational identity (1/2)
    4. Branding and organisational identity (2/2)
    5. Leading product development (1/2)
    6. Leading product development (2/2)
    7. Internet transformations (1/2)
    8. Internet transformations (2/2)
  15. Part 8 Suppliers and partners: leading together
    1. Building relationships
    2. Supplier strategies (1/2)
    3. Supplier strategies (2/2)
    4. Managing costs (1/2)
    5. Managing costs (2/2)
  16. Part 9 Learning: leadership development
    1. The knowledge premium (1/2)
    2. The knowledge premium (2/2)
    3. Awaydays (1/2)
    4. Awaydays (2/2)
    5. Seeking feedback (1/2)
    6. Seeking feedback (2/2)
  17. Part 10 Resources: the leadership toolkit
    1. Human resources (1/2)
    2. Human resources (2/2)
    3. Technology resources (1/2)
    4. Technology resources (2/2)
    5. Learning resources (1/3)
    6. Learning resources (2/3)
    7. Learning resources (3/3)
  18. Index (1/2)
  19. Index (2/2)

Product information

  • Title: The Leadership Book
  • Author(s): Mark Anderson
  • Release date: November 2010
  • Publisher(s): Pearson Business
  • ISBN: 9780273732051