Great Leaders Grow: Becoming a Leader For Life

Zusatztext “Continuing to grow has been the key to my success. It can be the key to yours! too! if you read this book.” —Anthony Robbins! entrepreneur! author and peak performance strategist   “Great stories based on principles have proven to be the most effective genre for focused learning. Mark and Ken have proven to be one of the world’s most successful writing teams. With Great Leaders Grow ! this creative dream team has produced their best work yet! This is a book for those who seek to be more effective leaders at home! at work! and in our nation as a whole.” —Andy Andrews! New York Times bestselling author of The Noticer and The Traveler’s Gift Informationen zum Autor Ken Blanchard is Chief Spiritual Officer of The Ken Blanchard Companies. He is the coauthor of more than forty books, including the classic The One Minute Manager (with Spencer Johnson), Leading at a Higher Level, Full Steam Ahead! (with Jesse Stoner) and The Secret (with Mark Miller). Klappentext The Secret introduced people around the world to a profound yet seemingly contradictory concept: to lead is to serve. With that as the foundation Great Leaders Grow takes the next step, showing leaders how to ensure that they'll be able to effectively serve throughout their careers. The Secret's protagonist, Debbie Brewster, now an accomplished leader herself, becomes a mentor to Blake, her former mentor's son. She teaches him not just how to lead, but emphasizes the critical importance of continually learning and developing his leadership abilities throughout his career. She identifies four areas in which every leader must continue to GROW - G ain Knowledge (of themselves, others, their industry and the field of leadership); R each Out to Others, both formally and informally; O pen their World, at work and outside of work; and W alk toward Wisdom (through self-evaluation, feedback, counsel and over time). This book is for any leader in any organization that needs more and better leaders faster. Its blueprint for culture transformation is a simple yet revolutionary path to sustainable achievement.Introduction Have you ever felt like you could lead at a higher level but you weren’t quite sure how to get there? Have you ever wondered how to strengthen your influence and increase your impact? Have you ever considered what enables some leaders to soar above all others? We’ve asked these questions and more just like them. We’re convinced, after more than seventy years of combined leadership, that the path to increased influence, impact, and leadership effectiveness is paved with personal growth. There’s certainly more to leadership than growth, but growth is at the heart of what creates and sustains great leaders. Growth is the leader’s fountain of youth. Growing for a leader is like oxygen to a deep sea diver: without it you die. Unlike the diver, you may not physically die—but if you stop growing, your influence will erode; and over time, you can even lose the opportunity to lead at all. Tragically, you see these losses in organizations large and small, for profit and not for profit—leaders who attain a position of leadership and fail to keep up. Or some get a promotion based on their potential, but that potential never materializes. Or perhaps you see it in young emerging leaders who never get their shot. Their untapped potential remains untapped. What do all these situations have in common? Personal growth—or the lack of it. The failure to grow sabotages the career of more leaders than anything else. Our capacity to grow determines our capacity to lead. It’s really that simple. However, simple doesn’t mean easy. Like most of life’s powerful principles, the power is in the application. That’s what this book is all about. In the pages that follow, you’ll go along for the ride ...

About the author

Ken Blanchard is Chief Spiritual Officer of The Ken Blanchard Companies. He is the coauthor of more than forty books, including the classic The One Minute Manager (with Spencer Johnson), Leading at a Higher Level, Full Steam Ahead! (with Jesse Stoner) and The Secret (with Mark Miller).

Product details

• Authors: Ken Blanchard, Kenneth H. Blanchard, Mark Miller, Mark R. Miller
• Publisher: Berrett Koehler Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.02.2012
• EAN: 9781609943035
• ISBN: 978-1-60994-303-5
• No. of pages: 144
• Dimensions: 149 mm x 222 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Agency/Distributed
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management