From the world renowned leadership expert John Adair, comes this unique volume of all his classic works, including How to Grow Leaders, The Inspirational Leader, Leadership and Motivation, Not Bosses but Leaders, Strategic Leadership and the international best-seller Leadership of Muhammad. With his distinctive insight into how leadership is learned, John Adair presents six business books that cross boundaries into culture, history, strategy and motivation. Leadership Lexicon is an essential volume and an exclusive opportunity to own all of Adair's ground-breaking works that will help you transform your understanding of how leadership works and learn the skills to transform you into a leader.
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John Adair's Leadership Lexicon is an all-in-one volume of his ground breaking and influential works on leadership. Including the international best-seller Leadership of Muhammad, it explores the nature of motivation, strategy and the skills needed to become a leader.
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Chapter - 00: Introduction;Section - ONE: Not bosses but leaders;Chapter - 01: Qualities of leadership;Chapter - 02: The circles interact;Chapter - 03: Leaders or managers?;Chapter - 04: High-performance teams;Chapter - 05: The purpose of industry;Chapter - 26: The Fifty-Fifty Rule;Chapter - 27: Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs;Chapter - 28: The application of Maslow’s ideas in industry;Chapter - 29: Herzberg’s Motivation – Hygiene Theory;Chapter - 30: How to motivate others: the eight principles of motivation;Chapter - 31: Parting reflections – towards a new theory of motivation;Section - FIVE: Leadership for innovation;Chapter - 32: What is innovation?;Chapter - 33: The conditions for successful innovation;Chapter - 34: Organizing for team creativity;Chapter - 35: Case Study: The DNA Laboratory;Chapter - 36: Case Study: Soichiro Honda – Leader for innovation;Chapter - 37: Real commitment from the top;Chapter - 38: How to motivate the creative individual;Chapter - 39: Team creativity;Chapter - 40: Harvesting ideas;Chapter - 41: Overcoming resistance to change;Section - SIX: The art of creative thinking;Chapter - 42: On human creativity;Chapter - 43: Use the stepping stones of analogy;Chapter - 44: Make the strange familiar and the familiar strange;Chapter - 45: Widen your span of relevance;Chapter - 46: Practise serendipity;Chapter - 47: Chance favours only the prepared mind;Chapter - 48: Curiosity;Chapter - 25: Action-Centred Leadership;Chapter - 24: Functional Leadership;Section - FOUR: Leadership and motivation;Chapter - 23a: How to grow leaders – The seven principles;Chapter - 23: Levels of leadership;Chapter - 22: The Situational Approach;Chapter - 21: Leaders or managers?;Chapter - 20: The group or functional approach;Chapter - 19: The qualities approach;Section - THREE: How to grow leaders;Chapter - 18: The test of leadership;Chapter - 17: The why question;Chapter - 16: Pulling the threads together;Chapter - 15: The common task;Chapter - 14: Beyond the call of duty;Chapter - 13: Giving and receiving;Chapter - 12: Levels of leadership;Chapter - 11: The authority of knowing;Chapter - 10: The three basic approaches;Section - TWO: The inspirational leader;Chapter - 09: Leadership from within;Chapter - 08: Leadership and power;Chapter - 07: Sharing and caring;Chapter - 06: Moving from plans to action;Chapter - 49: Keep your eyes open;Chapter - 50: Listen for ideas;Chapter - 51: Reading to generate ideas;Chapter - 52: Keep a notebook;Chapter - 53: Test your assumptions;Chapter - 54: Make better use of your Depth Mind;Chapter - 55: Do not wait for inspiration;Chapter - 56: Sharpen your analytical skills;Chapter - 57: Suspend judgement;Chapter - 58: Learn to tolerate ambiguity;Chapter - 59: Drift, wait and obey;Chapter - 60: Sleep on the problem;Chapter - 61: Working it out;Chapter - 62: Think creatively about your life
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"A wholly comprehensive and practical guide on how to develop leadership and management skills"
Includes six titles from the leadership guru, John Adair Best-selling author with over 500,000 books sold worldwide and translated into 25 languages One of the foremost thinkers on leadership Sir John Harvey-Jones John Adair is the first professor of Leadership Studies in the world and he remains the most distinguished figure in the field. The Sunday Times
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Presents six business books that cross boundaries into culture, history, strategy and motivation

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780749463069
Publisert
2011-03-03
Utgiver
Vendor
Kogan Page Ltd
Vekt
1036 gr
Høyde
246 mm
Bredde
180 mm
Dybde
34 mm
Aldersnivå
U, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
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Antall sider
512

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Biographical note

John Adair is the world's leading authority on leadership and leadership development. Over a million managers worldwide have taken part in the Action-Centred Leadership programmes he pioneered. John was also the only British national serviceman to serve in the Arab Legion, where he became adjutant of a Bedouin regiment. He is the author of over 50 books, many of which are published by Kogan Page, including the classics, Not Bosses but Leaders and Leadership of Muhammad.