If You Will Lead: Enduring Wisdom for 21st-Century Leaders
If You Will Lead: Enduring Wisdom for 21st-Century Leaders provides readers with guidance for any sort of leadership journey. Whether you are a seasoned executive or just starting your first leadership role, this book will help you grow as a leader. It starts by posing four critical questions for every reader to consider:
1. Who am I?
2. What do I want?
3. How can I get others to make their own choice to follow me?
4. How can I earn and retain the privilege to lead?
If You Will Lead helps each reader discover his or her own answers to these pivotal questions.
The book has taken Rudyard Kipling's classic poem "If--" and created a leadership framework out of it that comprises sixteen eternal and essential leadership attributes. He draws on noteworthy historical events to illustrate how great leaders like Martin Luther King, Abraham Lincoln, Mother Teresa, and others applied these leadership attributes to achieve extraordinary results.
If You Will Lead uses the power of storytelling to teach its leadership lessons. It combines bigger-than-life examples with everyday stories to help leaders apply its lessons to their own leadership challenges, whatever they may be. It's a practical guide that offers numerous resources and tools to help readers hone their skills and achieve their full potential.
Details
Publisher B2
ISBN-10 1-932841-58-X
ISBN-13 978-1-932841-58-9
Publication Date Jun 2011
Dimensions 6 x 9 in.
Original Publication 2011
sample chapters are available upon request.
If You Will Lead: Assessing Your Leadership Skills and Culture
How effectively do you lead? What are your towering strengths? What are your biggest challenges? What is culture of leadership within your organization? The If You Will Leadership Assessment tool will help you focus on what matters most in building your leaderships skills and developing a strong leadership culture. Pricing and terms available upon requests.
If She Will Lead: Enduring Wisdom for Tomorrow’s Powerful Women
This 30,000 word non-fiction inspirational leadership books is a collaboration with my daughter. It is based on the If You Will Lead framework, and uses the stories of some of today’s most successful women. These leaders include politicians, business leaders, artist, entertainers, and athletes. This new project will form the basis of focused leadership training targeting adolescent girls.