The 60 Second Leader Everything You Need to Know About Leadership, in 60 Second Bites

by Dourado, Phil

• ISBN13: 9781841127453
• ISBN10: 1841127450
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-06-05
• Publisher: Capstone

Summary

Why do you need this book? There are too many leadership books, too many leadership theories, too many leadership courses, and no time to filter out the good from the bad from the just plain boring. Whether you are the CEO of a public company or the head of your own little empire of one, you don't have time to wade through all the leadership information. You need a high impact, time saving guide to the essentials. The 60 Second Leader does the research and the filtering for you. It distils thirty essential elements of leadership into 60 second bites, interlaced with thirty tales to help bring the learning to life. You're too busy to read everything you need to read on leadership. So don't. Let The 60 Second Leader be your short-cut guide.

Author Biography

Phil Dourado is a leadership consultant, speaker, author and journalist. His specialist area is helping large companies develop a global community of leaders who learn from each other online. He has written for a number of national newspapers and magazines, including the telegraph, the Independent, GQ, The Observers and The Business. He edited two business-to-business journals before spending five years researching and defining great leadership practice as a director of the Inspired Leaders Network. This, his second book on leadership, grew out of research into distilling the essence of leadership for the 60 Second Leader online development system. It follows the same principle of bite-size nuggets that can be digested quickly by busy leaders and put into action immediately to improve their leadership performance. Phil has an MA in history from Cambridge University and splits h is time between consulting, researching, writing, parenting and caring for his wife, who has Huntington's disease. you can reach him through www.PhilDourado.com.

Table of Contents

About the Author

Who this book is for

Introduction: The 60-Second PhD in Leadership

Personal Leadership

Failure

Intuition

Decisions

Connection

Luck

Optimism

Leading The Organization

Strategy

Competition

Action

Execution

Management

Change

Leading People

Questions

Attention

Stories

Motivation

The 60-Second Leader

Engagement

Targets

Distributed Leadership

Innovation

Culture

Leading from the middle

Customers

Frontline leadership (1)

Frontline leadership (2)

Great Leadership

Ego

Humility

Fear

Love

Presence

Legacy

Where next?

Index

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