Leadership: All You Need To Know 2nd edition [electronic resource] /
Pendleton, David.author.
Furnham, Adrian F.author.
If you only read one book on leadership this year, make it this one! Leadership experts David Pendleton and Adrian Furnham present an innovative model for leadership success in a turbulent world. When times are hard, leadership makes the greatest difference. This thoroughly updated second edition shows how to make the kind of difference that all organizations, both public and private sector, want and need. Early chapters show the powerful effect leadership can have on organizations; subsequent chapters present new ideas that are elegantly simple, conceptually coherent and radically different, based on the best research in the field. The ideas in this book have also been tested in major multinational organizations over recent years. The aim is to provide leaders and those who work with them with a practical guide to how to increase the effectiveness of leadership in any organization.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword by Sir Rod Eddington -- Introduction -- 1. The History of Thinking about Leadership -- 2. Leadership's Impact on the Performance of Organisations -- 3. The Primary Colours of Leadership -- 4. Five Enablers of Leading -- 5. The Improbability of Being a Complete Leader -- 6. Building a Leadership Team -- 7. Do You Have to be Smart to be a Leader? -- 8. The Impact of Personality on Leadership -- 9. When it all goes wrong -- 9. A Programme of Action -- Summary and Conclusion.
If you only read one book on leadership this year, make it this one! Leadership experts David Pendleton and Adrian Furnham present an innovative model for leadership success in a turbulent world. When times are hard, leadership makes the greatest difference. This thoroughly updated second edition shows how to make the kind of difference that all organizations, both public and private sector, want and need. Early chapters show the powerful effect leadership can have on organizations; subsequent chapters present new ideas that are elegantly simple, conceptually coherent and radically different, based on the best research in the field. The ideas in this book have also been tested in major multinational organizations over recent years. The aim is to provide leaders and those who work with them with a practical guide to how to increase the effectiveness of leadership in any organization.
Leadership.
Project management.
Success in business.
Careers.
Employees—Coaching of.
Knowledge management.
Business Strategy/Leadership.
Project Management.
Careers in Business and Management.
Coaching.
Knowledge Management.