BECOMING AN EFFECTIVE LEADER

Author: None
Publisher: BECOMINGANEFFECTIVELEADER7-09999
Publish Date: 2006-06-01
Features: Book Description This work presents time-saving guides to sharpen your skills, improve on the job, and gain a competitive advantage. "The Results-Driven Manager Series" offers concise and action-oriented books that bring together the best and most current business thinking, advice, and practices that managers can put to use today to increase their impact on their organization's success and advance their own careers. The series brings together timely articles from "HBSP" newsletters to help senior to middle managers sharpen their skills, increase their effectiveness, and gain a competitive edge. Presented in a highly accessible format to save managers valuable time, these books offer authoritative insights and techniques for improving job performance and achieving immediate results. Managers are under increasing pressure to deliver better results faster than the competition. But meeting today's tough challenges requires complete mastery of a full array of management skills, from communicating and coaching to public speaking and managing people. "The Results-Driven Manager" series is designed to help time-pressed managers hone and polish the skills they need most. These timely guides will help managers improve their job performance today and give them the edge they need to become the leaders of tomorrow. "Becoming an Effective Leader" suggests that leadership is a balancing act. It requires communicating a compelling vision, convincing others to buy into that vision, and marshaling resources and talent to make it happen. This guide will help new and seasoned leaders master the complex art of the leadership role. It helps you improve decision-making and communication. It helps to earn trust and build momentum. It also helps to inspire and enable others to excel. About the Author The Results-Driven Manager Series brings together timely articles from HBSP newsletters to help senior to middle managers sharpen their skills, increase their effectiveness, and gain a competitive edge. Book Dimension Height (mm): 213 Width (mm): 132 Leadership continues to be one of the most written-about and most trained-for qualities in business today. And no figure fully embodies the leadership qualities managers hope to cultivate in their professional and personal lives as the late Vince Lombardi, the greatest NFL coach of all time. ~The exalted place Lombardi holds in American culture has never been clearer than it is today, as evidenced by the enormous success of the 1999 bestseller, When Pride Still Mattered, as well as the vast popularity of the coach's son, Vince Lombardi Jr., America's most sought-after motivational speaker. ~In What It Takes to Be #1, Vince Lombardi Jr. explores his father's leadership philosophy and extracts powerful lessons about what it takes to be an effective leader. Taking as his jumping-off point his father's legendary 1970 speech on the supreme importance of self-knowledge, character, and integrity, Lombardi Jr. examines each of those qualities and offers guidelines on cultivating and applying them at work and in your personal life. ~Throughout, What It Takes to Be #1 is enlivened by personal anecdotes and quotes about and by his father, as well as quotes from other great leaders providing further wisdom and inspiration. Vince Lombardi is widely regarded as the greatest coach in modern American football history, leading the previously unknown Green Bay Packers to five championships and a 9-1 regular-season record. American football is widely recognized as the most popular sport in the United States, bringing together the nation's most talented athletes. How did Lombardi lead this world-class team to such outstanding results? The answer lies in his leadership philosophy. The author of this book—Vince Lombardi Jr.—is Lombardi's son. He uses his father's remarks, letters, and speeches as clues to fully and authentically recreate Lombardi's leadership principles. For business leaders and all others, this book provides a blueprint to become a Lombardi-style leader.