Mastering Self Leadership : Empowering Yourself for Personal Excellence

by Manz, Charles C.; Neck, Christopher

• ISBN13: 9780130110879
• ISBN10: 0130110876
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-01-01
• Publisher: Prentice Hall

Summary

A brief inexpensive paperback on self-management. This text explores methods for achieving personal goals using self-assessment, self-reward, and self-punishment concepts and exercises. This revision includes a new chapter on Self Leadership within Teams. The practical, applied assessment exercises and activities both build and reinforce the skills all managers need to manage themselves and employees.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
About the Authors	xi
The Journey	1	(7)
Leadership	1	(1)
Sources of Leadership	2	(2)
We All Lead Ourselves	4	(1)
Self-Leadership	5	(3)
Mapping the Route	8	(7)
Those External Factors	9	(1)
Those Personal Factors	9	(1)
We Do Choose	10	(5)
Rough Road, Detours, and Roadblocks	15	(24)
World-Altering Strategies	19	(2)
Self-Imposed Strategies	21	(18)
The Case of the Sales Rep Who Neglected to Bring in New Clients	36	(3)
Scenic Views, Sunshine, and the Joys of Traveling	39	(19)
The Natural Rewards	42	(1)
What Makes Activities Naturally Rewarding?	43	(3)
Tapping the Power of Natural Rewards	46	(8)
A Closing Comment	54	(4)
The Case of the External Rewards That Were Just Not Enough	58	(1)
Travel Thinking	58	(11)
Our Psychological Worlds	59	(2)
Is There Power in Positive Thinking?	61	(8)
Travel Thinking Continued ...	69	(12)
Imagined Experience	69	(6)
Opportunity or Obstacle Thinking: An Example	75	(6)
The Case of the Problem Employee That Was All in Her Mind	79	(2)
Team Self-Leadership	81	(10)
Self-Leadership and Teams	82	(1)
Behavioral Aspects of Team Self-Leadership	82	(1)
Mental Aspects of Team Self-Leadership	83	(2)
Team Self-Leadership Still Means Individual Self-Leadership	85	(1)
Balancing the ``Me'' with the ``We''	86	(5)
Reviewing Travel Tales of Previous Journeys	91	(15)
Self-Leadership Applied to Personal Problems	91	(1)
Applications in Athletics	92	(2)
Applications in Work/Organizational Situations	94	(1)
Uniquely Autonomous Jobs	94	(2)
Organizational Management Positions	96	(1)
Nonmanagement Jobs	96	(10)
The Destination of Self-Leadership	106	(11)
Self-Leadership	106	(9)
A Tale of Self-Leadership	108	(7)
The Tale in Perspective	115	(2)
The Journey Completed	117	(12)
Personal Effectiveness	118	(2)
Some Additional Thoughts	120	(9)
The Tale Continued	122	(7)
Epilogue	129	(2)
Index	131