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The Leadership Crash Course: How to Create Personal Leadership Value

The Leadership Crash Course: How to Create Personal Leadership Value

by PaulTaffinder (Author)

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    Paperback 2006

    $3.40
Synopsis

Good leaders are in demand. The world is full of managers and desperately short of leaders - real leaders. "The Leadership Crash Course" is designed to help anyone develop and hone the necessary skills to be a truly effective leader. Structured in seven parts, this fully revised new edition is a self-improvement course like no other. Readers can analyse their strengths and weaknesses by working through a range of activities and exercises. It's also full of practical hints and tips that will help readers make quick decisions when needed. There is guidance on how to take on a new leadership role with rapid impact, set up and lead a change initiative, communicate change to employees, disturb the organizational culture in order to make things happen, turn your mistakes into successes and mobilize staff so they are all pulling in the same direction. "The Leadership Crash Course" is really about creating value, because good leadership moves things forward, creates action and increases the likelihood of growth, attainment and success.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 192
 Edition: 2
 Publisher: Kogan Page
Published: 03 Mar 2006
ISBN 10: 0749446382
ISBN 13: 9780749446383
Book Overview: A six part self-improvement course full of practical tips, exercises and activities which will help anyone to develop and hone their skills to be a truly effective leader.

Media Reviews
Neatly clarifies the issues, illustrating them with good case studies from industry. - The Times Educational Supplement Contains practical tips on taking a new leadership role and managing change. - People Management Paul Taffinder is a respected name in corporate transformation... this book will help you know if you've got what it takes. - Carol Kennedy, Director Magazine A concise and practical guide to leadership... anyone using it will benefit. - Business Executive
Author Bio
Paul Taffinder is a partner at Marakon Associates, a leading strategy and management consulting firm, and the world's foremost authority on value creation. For 30 years Marakon has advised the top management of some of the world's best-known companies on the issues that most impact their performance and long-term value. Paul has advised dozens of Global 500 companies on leadership and large-scale change, and specializes in CEO-led transformation. He has also written extensively about leadership and change, beginning with his first book, The New Leaders (Kogan Page) and then Big Change, which won the prestigious Business Management Book of the Year Award in 1999 for what the judges called his inspirational approach to corporate transformation.