What to Ask the Person in the Mirror

by Kaplan, Robert Steven

• ISBN13: 9781422170014
• ISBN10: 1422170012
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-07-19
• Publisher: Harvard Business School Pr

Summary

Successful leaders know that leadership is less often about having all the answers and more often about asking the right questions. The challenge lies in being able to step back, reflect, and ask the key questions that are critical to your performance and your organization'¬"s effectiveness. In What to Ask the Person in the Mirror, HBS professor and business leader Robert Kaplan presents a process for asking the big questions that will enable you to diagnose problems, change course if necessary, and advance your career. This highly readable and practical guide helps you learn to ask the right questions and work through the answers in ways that are right for you. By asking these questions, you can craft new strategies for staying on top of your game.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Great Leadership Is Not About Having Alt the Answers
Vision and Priorities	p. 11
If You Know Where You're Going, It's a Lot Easier to Get There
Managing Your Time	p. 47
How You Spend Your Time Should Flow Directly from Your Vision and Key Priorities
Giving and Getting Feedback	p. 73
Effective Leaders Coach Their People end Actively Seek Coaching Themselves
Succession Planning and Delegation	p. 105
Owning the Challenge of Developing Successors in Your Organization
Evaluation and Alignment	p. 133
The Courage to Assess Your Enterprise with a Clean Sheet of Paper
The Leader as Role Model	p. 161
Communicating Whet You Truly Believe and Value
Reaching Your Potential	p. 189
Being True to Yourself
Bringing It All Together	p. 223
The Practice of Gaining Perspective
Appendix: Critical Questions for Becoming a More Effective Leader and Reaching Your Potential	p. 233
Notes and Additional References	p. 245
Acknowledgments	p. 249
Index	p. 253
About the Author	p. 263
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