Heretical leadership
Subtitle: how to avoid square wheel management
By: Barry Jackson
Publisher: Ecademy Press; Panoma Press Limited
Published: 2011
Place of publication: St. Albans, Herts
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781907722868; 9781907722530
Subjects: Leadership; Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneuriat; Entrepreneurs; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS; Industrial Management; Management; Management Science; Organizational Behavior
Description: How to avoid square wheel management! Political correctness, scourge of our age, is thriving in the world of business leadership. Who is not committed to excellent customer service? Who's not committed to S.M.A.R.T. goals? Well, customers expect you to make and keep S.M.A.R.T. promises. I'll get back to you as soon as possible is not a S.M.A.R.T. promise. How is it that as soon as possible has come to mean that the wait will be indefinite? Do members of your team feel threatened by challenging goals when they ought to embrace them with relish? They will embrace them once they realise that failure to hit these goals is not going to be used as an excuse to kick the daylights out of them at the next annual appraisal. Stress is rife in the work place and conflict resolution courses abound. Great leaders don't resolve conflict. They avoid it in the first place. Get your reconciliation in first! These and other subversive messages are shared in this tongue in cheek approach which encourages you to go heretical and thrive.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; 1: Heretical Leadership; 2: The Heresy of Goal Setting; 3: Incentives are Heresy; 4: Encouragers are Heretics; 5: Integrity requires Heresy; 6: Personality Profiling, NLP and Other Heresies; 7: Teamwork: One Big Heresy; 8: Conflict Results from Heresy; 9: The Heretic Presenter; 10: Leadership is NOT a Position; 11: Are People REALLY Your Greatest Asset?; 12: The Ultimate Heresy: The Contract of Employment; 13: Developing Your Active Listening Skills; 14: The Heretic Leader's Checklist; Appendix; Further Reading; Acknowledgements.