Learning Leadership: The Five Fundamentals of Becoming an Exemplary Leader
From the bestselling authors of The Leadership Challenge and over a dozen award winning leadership books,
James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner have written a new book that examines a fundamental question: How do people learn leadership? How do they learn to become leaders?
Learning Leadership: The Five Fundamentals of Becoming an Exemplary Leader (ISBN: 978-1-119-14428-1; Wiley; May 2016) is a comprehensive guide to unleashing the inner-leader in us all and to building a solid foundation for a lifetime of leadership growth and mastery. The book offers a concrete framework to help individuals of all levels, functions, and backgrounds take charge of their own leadership development and become the best leaders they can be. Arguing that all individuals are born with the capacity to lead, Kouzes and Posner provide readers with a practical series of actions and specific coaching tips for harnessing that capacity and creating a context in which they can excel., Supported by over 30 years of research, from over seventy countries, and with examples from real-world leaders, Learning Leadership is a clarion call to unleash the leadership potential that is already present in today’s society.
According to Kouzes and Posner, “Leadership makes a significant difference in levels of engagement and commitment and is perhaps the most important asset in every organization, yet recent research points to a shortage of leaders. It is a serious global concern. The world needs more exemplary leaders in order to promote high-performing workplaces and inspire feelings of greater self-worth and meaningfulness. The shortage, however, is not because of the lack of potential talent. The people are out there, the eagerness is out there, and the capability is out there. The shortage results from prevailing myths—myths about talent, strengths, position, self-reliance, and effort—that inhibit the vast majority of leaders from shining and organizations from realizing the full benefits of the talent they already have.”
Learning Leadership provides readers with evidence-based strategies to ignite the habit of continuous improvement and the mindset of becoming the best leaders they can be. Emerging leaders, as well as leadership developers, internal and external coaches and trainers, and other human resource professionals will learn from first-hand stories and practical examples so that they can deeply understand and apply the fundamental for becoming the best leaders they can be.
Learning Leadership: The Five Fundamentals of Becoming an Exemplary Leader is divided into digestible bite-sized chapters that encourage daily actions to becoming a better leader. Key takeaways from the book include:
- Believe in Yourself. Believing in oneself is the essential first step in developing leadership competencies. The best leaders are learners, and they can’t achieve mastery until and unless they truly decide that inside them there is a person who can make and difference and learn to be a better leader than they are right now.
- Aspire to Excel. To become an exemplary leader, people have to determine what they care most about and why they want to lead. Leaders with values-based motivations are the most likely to excel. They also must have a clear image of the kind of leader they want to be in the future—and the legacy they want to leave for others.
- Challenge Yourself. Challenging oneself is critical to learning leadership. Leaders have to seek new experiences and test themselves. There will be inevitable setbacks and failures along the way that require curiosity, grit, courage, and resilience in order to persist in learning and becoming the best.
- Engage Support. One can’t lead alone, and one can’t learn alone.It is essential to get support and coaching on the path to achieving excellence. Whether it’s family, managers at work, or professional coaches, leaders need the advice, feedback, care, and support of others.
- Practice Deliberately. No one gets better at anything without continuous practice. Exemplary leaders spend more time practicing than ordinary leaders. Simply being in the role of a leader is insufficient. To achieve mastery, leaders must set improvement goals, participate in designed learning experiences, ask for feedback, and get coaching. They also put in the time every day and make learning leadership a daily habit.
Kouzes and Posner offer unrivaled insights into what it means to become an exemplary leader in today’s world with their original research and over 30 years of experience studying the practices of extraordinary leadership. They show that anyone can become a better leader if they believe in themselves, aspire to excel, challenge themselves, to grow, engage the support of others, and practice deliberately. Learning Leadership challenges readers to do the meaningful and disciplined work necessary to becoming the best they can, using a new mindset and toolkit that can make extraordinary things happen. It’s not the once-in-a-while transformational acts that demonstrate leadership. It’s the little things that one does day in and day out that pave the path to greatness.
The Road To Financial Freedom – Earn Your First Million in Seven Years: What Rich People Do and Poor People Do Not to Become Rich
#1 worldwide bestseller! Bodo Schafer suggests tips to help you to become as successful as he is and to find the road to financial freedom.
For many people the concept of owning a million dollars at one stroke is completely unfathomable. So what if you could do it in seven years? Bodo Schafer, renowned financier and personal management trainer, helps people to discover the tips and tricks that successful individuals use to achieve their aims.
“The Road to Financial Freedom” is an interesting journey, and Schafer will help you overcome it. Being rich and successful isn’t merely luck; it demands discipline, special tools and understanding of finances. And most people simply don’t have all these characteristics. This book will help you to learn what keeps success out of the grasp of ordinary individuals.
From this book you will learn:
– How to control and eliminate debts
– How to manage asset’s growth
– How to find ways to not depend on others for financial solvency
– And so much more!
While to become a millionaire in just seven years seems to be a dream to some people, those ones who practice the habits from this book can very well see how it becomes a reality. People are frightened by financial prejudices which keeps them from attain success that’s why people don’t know they could be capable of. You can earn money, manage money, and watch how money grows in a way that allows you have all you want. Finally it’s all about how to make money to work for you instead of spending your whole life working for money.
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking
The book that started the Quiet Revolution
At least one-third of the people we know are introverts. They are the ones who prefer listening to speaking; who innovate and create but dislike self-promotion; who favor working on their own over working in teams. It is to introverts—Rosa Parks, Chopin, Dr. Seuss, Steve Wozniak—that we owe many of the great contributions to society.
In Quiet, Susan Cain argues that we dramatically undervalue introverts and shows how much we lose in doing so. She charts the rise of the Extrovert Ideal throughout the twentieth century and explores how deeply it has come to permeate our culture. She also introduces us to successful introverts—from a witty, high-octane public speaker who recharges in solitude after his talks, to a record-breaking salesman who quietly taps into the power of questions. Passionately argued, superbly researched, and filled with indelible stories of real people, Quiet has the power to permanently change how we see introverts and, equally important, how they see themselves.
Now with Extra Libris material, including a reader’s guide and bonus content
FINANCIAL FREEDOM: How to Build Wealth, Book 3: The Best Guide to Mutual Funds Investing
This book is the best actionable narrative on How to Make Money. I want you to enjoy this experience! This book will change your life. FINANCIAL FREEDOM publications will offer you the best knowledge on: Personal Finance, Money Management, Investing Basics, Investment Management, Financial Planning, Stock Investing, Mutual Funds, Options Trading, Real Estate Investing, Retirement Planning, and much more. FINANCIAL FREEDOM publications are conservative books on all the topics of money investment. This book is the perfect beginner’s guide for Mutual Funds investing. Consider this: Knowledge, The Most Important Thing in Achieving Goals. This book will teach you like a champion. It is perfectly fine to aspire—even necessary—to be financially rich—even very rich! Indeed, once you are very rich, you can bless other people with your generosity—financial power, in this case. Many people would like to be financially rich. Everything has an operator’s manual though. In order to construct things, you need a plan—a good, reliable, plan. So, ready yourself to learn. Learning is the greatest asset-builder for you!
Learning requires discipline. Financial wealth building—and its navigation—requires discipline. The rewards are quite worth it, however! This book—as well as other Financial Freedom publications—is designed to show you where the available assets—yours—are, how to produce good returns on them, and how to enjoy different financial plans. The key must be to construct, implement, and enjoy these financial plans during both “good” and “bad” markets—when you do get into serious/informed active investing.
I have decided, after many years of research, to publish the Financial Freedom education in form of several short books. That way you can readily choose which book fitly matches your particular situation. However, I recommend you read them in their proper order. These books will be rather good! Back to the discipline thing, now: To be successful in your financial wealth building you must overcome the obstacles, which might appear in the way. Build a solid plan! Yes, you are. Yes, you can. Really.
Even if you are very new to the subject of personal finance—and I do mean NEW, keep the discipline—and keep on keeping on! That is what it takes. Some things might appear a bit different—in terminology, structure, and the particular tool. So what? You are learning, and thereafter the rewards will come! Remember this: the realm of Personal Finance and Investment is broad. You need a good understanding of this realm, in order to achieve Financial Freedom. These books will show you how to build wealth like a pro! I am using a conversational method to bring the information to you. The communication will be fine. Enjoy!
Emotional Intelligence 2.0
In today’s fast-paced world of competitive workplaces and turbulent economic conditions, each of us is searching for effective tools that can help us to manage, adapt, and strike out ahead of the pack.
By now, emotional intelligence (EQ) needs little introduction—it’s no secret that EQ is critical to your success. But knowing what EQ is and knowing how to use it to improve your life are two very different things.
Emotional Intelligence 2.0 delivers a step-by-step program for increasing your EQ via four, core EQ skills that enable you to achieve your fullest potential:
1) Self-Awareness
2) Self-Management
3) Social Awareness
4) Relationship Management
Emotional Intelligence 2.0 is a book with a single purpose—increasing your EQ. Here’s what people are saying about it:
“Emotional Intelligence 2.0 succinctly explains how to deal with emotions creatively and employ our intelligence in a beneficial way.”
—The Dalai Lama
“A fast read with compelling anecdotes and good context in which to understand and improve.”
—Newsweek
“Gives abundant, practical findings and insights with emphasis on how to develop EQ. Research shows convincingly that EQ is more important than IQ.”
–Stephen R. Covey, author, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
“This book can drastically change the way you think about success…read it twice.”
–Patrick Lencioni, author, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
Money
Money is the nation’s largest personal finance magazine. Money’s mission is to help readers make better decisions, not just in their investment portfolio, but everywhere life and money intersects – family, home, health, finances, career, spending and their future.
How to Win Friends & Influence People
For more than sixty years the rock-solid, time-tested advice in this book has carried thousands of now famous people up the ladder of success in their business and personal lives.
Now this previously revised and updated bestseller is available in trade paperback for the first time to help you achieve your maximum potential throughout the next century! Learn:
* Three fundamental techniques in handling people
* The six ways to make people like you
* The twelve ways to win people to you way of thinking
* The nine ways to change people without arousing resentment
The Servant: A Simple Story About the True Essence of Leadership
With a new introduction on using the principles of The Servant in your life and career, this book redefines what it means to be a leader.
In this absorbing tale, you watch the timeless principles of servant leadership unfold through the story of John Daily, a businessman whose outwardly successful life is spiraling out of control. He is failing miserably in each of his leadership roles as boss, husband, father, and coach. To get his life back on track, he reluctantly attends a weeklong leadership retreat at a remote Benedictine monastery.
To John’s surprise, the monk leading the seminar is a former business executive and Wall Street legend. Taking John under his wing, the monk guides him to a realization that is simple yet profound: The true foundation of leadership is not power, but authority, which is built upon relationships, love, service, and sacrifice.
Along with John, you will learn that the principles in this book are neither new nor complex. They don’t demand special talents; they are simply based on strengthening the bonds of respect, responsibility, and caring with the people around you. The Servant‘s message can be applied by anyone, anywhere—at home or at work.
If you are tired of books that lecture instead of teach; if you are searching for ways to improve your leadership skills; if you want to understand the timeless virtues that lead to lasting and meaningful success, then this book is one you cannot afford to miss.
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, Enhanced Edition: A Leadership Fable (J-B Lencioni Series)
In The Five Dysfunctions of a Team Patrick Lencioni once again offers a leadership fable that is as enthralling and instructive as his first two best-selling books, The Five Temptations of a CEO and The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive. This time, he turns his keen intellect and storytelling power to the fascinating, complex world of teams.
Kathryn Petersen, Decision Tech’s CEO, faces the ultimate leadership crisis: Uniting a team in such disarray that it threatens to bring down the entire company. Will she succeed? Will she be fired? Will the company fail? Lencioni’s utterly gripping tale serves as a timeless reminder that leadership requires as much courage as it does insight.
Throughout the story, Lencioni reveals the five dysfunctions which go to the very heart of why teams even the best ones-often struggle. He outlines a powerful model and actionable steps that can be used to overcome these common hurdles and build a cohesive, effective team. Just as with his other books, Lencioni has written a compelling fable with a powerful yet deceptively simple message for all those who strive to be exceptional team leaders.
Your Leadership EDGE: Mastering Management Skills for Today’s Workforce
Not everyone is born a great leader, but anyone can foster core leadership competencies for themselves and become actionable, effective leaders. If you’re ready to take the next step in your career and learn the secrets to effectively motivating and developing your team, Your Leadership Edge is the program to take you there.
Your Leadership Edge is not just another leadership development self-help book; it is a complete management training program. The leadership training guide is geared toward managers, supervisors and executives of all backgrounds and experience levels and provides concrete steps that you can take to become a better leader right away.
As you work through the management training guide, Your Leadership Edge will help you assess your own leadership competencies and allow you to identify your strengths and weaknesses. From there, the leadership development program helps you find ways to overcome the obstacles that stand in your way of being the type of effective leader that motivates, inspires and retains employees.
In the pages of Your Leadership Edge, you won’t find broad discussions of leadership development that are difficult to relate to or use to affect change in your own leadership style. Instead, you’ll engage in a series of exercises and activities that make the concepts discussed relevant to your own position. It’s this difference that makes this leadership training program so powerful. By the end, you will have a deeper appreciation of your own level of leadership skills and be poised to lead those who report to you in a way that maximizes their job satisfaction and improves their overall performance.
Discover the leadership skills that transform subordinates into productive, positive and driven teams that are poised to accomplish their goals. Become the type of leader that you have always wanted to be. Order the paperback version of Your Leadership Edge or download this life-changing leadership training program for your Kindle today.
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