"I" of Leadership Strategies for Seeing, Being and Doing
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Nigel Nicholson is a renowned educator, thinker, writer, and commentator on business. He is Professor of Organizational Behaviour at the London Business School, where he directs executive leadership programmes including High Performance People Skills, and the unique Proteus Programme.
<p>"Combined with analysis of cases from several decades, this book is as richly-textured as it is insightful." (<em>Communication Director,</em> June 2013) </p><p>"... it is what he does with the well-worn material that is original – and highly ambitious... his book does stand out from the pack of leadership literature.... The good news is that Nicholson has forged the tools to help would-be leaders rise to the challenge." (<em>Financial Times,</em> May 2013) </p>
Using stories and examples from the lives of leaders, from the sports stadium to the White House to the office of the CEO, Nicholson shows vividly how the capacity of leaders to see what others do not see frames their actions and allows them to transform, build, destroy, or stabilize. Leaders fail through lack of insight—into themselves and into the worlds they inhabit.
The strategic challenge of leadership is to find the right balance between impact and versatility and the successful crafting of an identity that merges the leader and the surrounding culture or 'zeitgeist.'
Leaders covered in the book include: George Bush, Tony Blair, George S Patton, Warren Buffet, Steve Jobs, Josef Stalin, Hannibal, Elizabeth I, Nelson Mandela, Edith Cowan, Abraham Lincoln, Mohandas Gandhi, Henry Ford, Ernest Shackleton, Barack Obama, Robert Maxwell, JFK, Pope John XXIII, Margaret Thatcher, and Samuel Pepys.
This book resonates with insights and searching questions on the nature of human leadership. It will be an invaluable guide to managers, consultants, and people everywhere.
Acknowledgements xi
1 It Goes with the Territory – Leadership Moments 1
2 Leadership in the Wild – The Evolution of Power 19
3 A Very Short History of Leadership 35
4 Leadership as Strategy – Situations, Processes and Qualities (SPQ) 57
5 Who am I? Leadership Qualities and the Compass Question 69
6 The “Eye” of Leadership – The Law of the Situation 87
7 The Adaptive Leader – Leadership Processes 109
8 Dynamic Leadership – Shaping and Discovery 125
9 Reading the World – A Leadership Conundrum 139
10 Born to Lead? Leaders Lost and Found 151
11 Who’s Your Buddy? Critical Leader Relationships 165
12 Destiny, Drama and Deliberation – The Lives of Leaders 183
13 The “I” of Leadership – Inside the Mind of the Leader 199
14 Games Leaders Play – Finding the Narrative 225
15 The Self-Management of Leadership – You, Others and Organization 241
16 Can Leaders Save the World? Vision, Identity and Passion 259
Endnotes 271
Index 299
THIS IS THE LEADERSHIP BOOK YOU HAVE TO READ: A BARN-STORMING NEW TAKE ON WHAT MAKES A VERSATILE, INTEGRATED AND EFFECTIVE LEADER.
Using stories and examples from the lives of leaders, (from the sports stadium to the White House to the office of the CEO), Nicholson shows vividly how the capacity of leaders to see what others do not see frames their actions and allows them to transform, build, destroy, or stabilize. Leaders fail through lack of insight – into themselves and into the worlds they inhabit.
The strategic challenge of leadership is to find the right balance between impact and versatility and the successful crafting of an identity that merges the leader and the surrounding culture or ‘zeitgeist’.
This book resonates with insights and searching questions on the nature of human leadership. It will be an invaluable guide to managers, consultants and people everywhere.
“Each leader has a story but it is a story in progress, a story that probably could be written in different ways. Behind the story is what Nigel calls the “I” of Leadership: the consciousness of the leaders, their self management and strategy. The book is not about global leaders and celebrities, it is about all of us because we all experience that ‘Moment’, the Leadership Moment when we have to act.”
MO IBRAHIM, FOUNDER, CELTEL AND CHAIRMAN OF THE MO IBRAHIM FOUNDATION
“Three comments on this wonderful book: #1. Beware. If you pick up it, you will not put it down. #2. Pick it up. You will learn a lot. Who you are as leader will change (because you will know more about leadership) and ‘Who you are matters. What you do with who you are matters even more.’ (from Chapter 1). #3. Don’t wait. Our world is never going to slow down but you can get ahead of the curve with what you learn here.”
J. KEITH MURNIGHAN, HAROLD H. HINES JR. DISTINGUISHED PROFESSOR OF RISK MANAGEMENT, KELLOGG SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT, NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AND AUTHOR OF DO NOTHING! HOW TO STOP OVERMANAGING AND BECOME A GREAT LEADER
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Nigel Nicholson is a renowned educator, thinker, writer, and commentator on business. He is Professor of Organizational Behaviour at the London Business School, where he directs executive leadership programmes including High Performance People Skills, and the unique Proteus Programme.