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Title:
How leaders improve : a playbook for leaders who want to get better now / John Gates, PhD, Jeff Graddy, PhD, and Sacha Lindekens, PhD.
Author:
Gates, John, 1962- author.

Graddy, Jeff, author.

Lindekens, Sacha, author.
Publication Information:
Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, [2017]
Call Number:
HD57.7 .G3778 2017
Abstract:
Written by a team of highly experienced and successful executive leadership consultants, this book offers 10 data-driven insights regarding leadership effectiveness, accompanied by practical and easy-to-implement recommendations that directly serve the development of leadership ability. * Provides insights based on a sample of leaders who improved significantly over time, supplying findings that are based on actual research, not just opinion or anecdotal "evidence" * Offers practical and applicable recommendations for how individual leaders, organizations, and coaches/managers can apply the 10 insights shared in the book * Provides a novel framework for determining and assessing who is "ripe" for a leadership development opportunity (the RIPEN model), an effective way for individuals or organizations to determine in which leadership candidates to invest precious development resources * Supplies strategies for enhancing one's ripeness for a leadership development opportunity.
ISBN:
9781440860577
Physical Description:
viii, 180 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Contents:
Preface -- Why (and how) we wrote this book -- Insight #1: Ripeness (from the inside out) -- Insight #2: Ripeness (from the outside in) -- Insight #3: Central issue -- Insight #4: Penetrating message -- Insight #5: Guiding metaphor -- Insight #6: Critical conversations -- Insight #7: Training experience -- Insight #8: Social support -- Insight #9: Keep it real (with yourself and others) -- Insight #10: Focus on strengths -- and weaknesses -- Where we've been and where we're going -- Notes -- Index.
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