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Unlock your true leadership potential with this insightful guide
With each chapter serving as a one-on-one coaching session, The Act of Leadership will help you create new habits and new ways of being in your day-to-day leadership, as well as life away from work, that are actionable, immediately.Perfect for leaders, professionals, educators, and athletes seeking to improve their own performance, The Act of Leadership will also earn a place in the libraries of anyone hoping to improve the lives of the people who follow them, in business, sport, and life.
DAN HAESLER is a coach who focuses on creating happier, healthier and higher performance. He works side-by-side with people to help them, and the people around them, to thrive, professionally and personally. Dan’s clients include elite athletes and Olympians, as well as corporate and educational leaders.
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About the author ix
Introduction xi
Part I: The ‘you’ stuff 1
1 Is this book for you?: what kind of leader do you want to be? 3
2 Be mindful, not mindless: the importance of being in the moment 25
3 Assume nothing: the biases that stop you from seeing what’s really there 43
4 How to turn it around: why you don’t learn from your mistakes 61
Part II: The ‘you and them’ stuff 83
5 Mum was wrong: it really does matter what others think of you 85
6 Make it safe to stuff up: high performance is not about being perfect 103
7 Less carrot, less stick: find out what makes people tick 121
8 Be better at change: stop trying to get people on the bus 141
9 Less is more: create space so your team can step up 165
Part III: The tactical stuff 183
10 Stop wasting people’s time: running meetings that matter 185
11 No more sh!t sandwiches: have better 1:1s with your team 203
12 Have less difficult conversations: start having adult ones instead 223
Conclusion: Roger Federer still feels the need for a coach, and you don’t? Seriously? 241
Acknowledgements 257
Index 259
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