Leadership for Everyone How to Apply The Seven Essential Skills to Become a Great Motivator, Influencer, and Leader

by Dean, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780071453400
• ISBN10: 0071453407
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-10-06
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Education

Summary

Regardless of rank, title, or station in life, anyone can be a leader. That's the assertion of Dr. Peter Dean, award-winning leadership practitioner. Today's organizations demand self-directed employees at every level-leaders that can work for them-and this book holds the key to developing and enhancing leadership abilities in any situation.

Author Biography

Peter J. Dean, Ph.D., holds the O. Alfred Granum Chair in Management at The American College, where he is an award-winning associate professor of management and leadership. The author of numerous papers and the recipient of several awards for teaching excellence from Wharton and Penn State, among others, Dean is an active consultant who has worked with such companies as Rockwell International., DuPont, Motorola, Sprint, and Johnson & Johnson.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Part I -- How to Lead	1	(22)
Introduction	3	(4)
The L.E.A.D.E.R.S. Method	7	(6)
The Everyday Leader	13	(10)
Part II -- The L.E.A.D.E.R.S. Method	23	(120)
Listen to Learn	25	(14)
Empathize with Their Emotions	39	(6)
Attend to Aspirations	45	(12)
Diagnose and Detail	57	(12)
Engage for Good Ends	69	(22)
Respond with Respectfulness	91	(32)
Speak with Specificity	123	(20)
Epilogue	143	(2)
Appendix: Conversational Skills for Everyday Leaders	145	(2)
Bibliography	147	(14)
Index	161