领导人真正要做的事What Do Leaders Really Do?
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作者： Jeff Grout, Liz Fisher 著
出 版 社： Oversea Publishing House
出版时间： 2007-10-1字数：版次： 1页数： 206印刷时间： 2007/10/01开本： 16开印次： 1纸张： 胶版纸I S B N ： 9781841127576包装： 平装编辑推荐
作者简介：Jeff Grout is a respected adviser, commentator and columnist on the subjects of motivation, recruitment and retention. He is a regular speaker at conferences and events, specialising in topics such as Building high-performance teams and The characteristics of success. He is also business manager to Clive Woodward, the former England Rugby coach.
Jeff is an experienced television and radio participant and has collaborated with the BBC in producing an interview training video. He has also run interview technique courses for a number of the UK’s leading companies.
Jeff is co-author of Mind Games, The Adventure Capitalists and My Brilliant Career, which insights into the characteristics of career success, based on public interviews with high achievers from the fields of sport, business media and the stage.
内容简介
An enormous range of literature on leadership and management theory has been produced over the years, some of it highly academic and much of it contradictory. What Do Leaders Really Do? takes the basis of the best-known management theories to see how they fit with the practical reality of leadership. How do leaders spend their time? Are they really preoccupied with strategy, vision and inspiring people? Do they lead by accident, or design? The book challenges the assumption that leaders are born, not made and explores the theory that female leaders are fundamentally different from their male counterparts.
What Do Leaders Really Do? Looks into the everyday working lives of well-known leaders in a variety of fields - business, sport and the armed forces - in order to identify the elements that encourage people to follow where they lead. Drawing on the experiences of a wide range of leaders with varying backgrounds and roles, as well as a range of respected academics and management writers, this book will closely analyze the background, experiences and behavior of a diverse set of leaders. A central part of the analysis will be a detailed examination of what these leaders do on a day-to-day basis.
It is not a book about management theory but an accessible, no-nonsense guide to those theories and how they translate to real life. Many people lead effectively without knowing how they do it; this book will isolate and identify the core skills and behavior displayed by effective leaders.
What Do Leaders Really Do? is intended to be a refreshing alternative to the hundreds of academically-oriented leadership books that are available. The tone will be straight-forward, accessible and sometimes humorous, rich with first-person evidence and anecdotes. It will dissect popular leadership theory into the easily understandable basics, with reference to the practicalities of real-life leadership situations. After all, what good is theory if it doesn't work in practice?
目录
Foreword by Martin Glen
Introduction
PART ONE
Chapter 1: Characteristics of leadership
The charisma question
A substitute for charisma
Leadership by osmosis
Chapter 2: Background
The influence of family life
Education
Learning leadership
Career progression
Chapter 3: Influences
The influence of parents
The influence of teachers
The influence of bosses
Mentors and mentoring
PART TWO
Chapter 4: Vision
Creating the vision
Communicating the vison
Long or short term?
Chapter 5: Decision-making and Risk
Military mission anlaysis
Risk and the military
Risk and business leaders
Chapter 6: Mistakes and setbacks
Chapter 7: Change management
PART THREE
Chapter 8: Authentic and empathetic leadership
Chapter 9: Motivation, Inspiration and Morale
Chapter 10: Choosing and building a team
Chapter 11: Communication
Chapter 12: Looking after No 1
Appendix
Bibliography and further reading
