The 60 Second Leader E-Book

Phil Dourado

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Fachliteratur
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 209

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2009

Beschreibung

This book is the distillation of 30 essential elements of leadership into 60 second digestible chapters. There are also 30 true 60 Second Leader Tales in between the chapters to help bring some of the leader leraning points to life. PRAISE FOR THE 60 SECOND LEADER "A good prescription for all of us! Hope the book does well." Guy Kawasaki, Garage.com. Author, Rules for Revolutionaries and The Art of The Start "I was very impressed. I approached it as a cynic, thinking it was going to be one of those 'MBA in a day' things. But, I enjoyed it. It's very well put together." Steve Parks, CEO, The Red Group "Well done on your refreshing approach to leadership. I recommended your book to a large conference yesterday. Keep going - this world needs people like you." David Taylor, Author, The Naked Leader "The book is great. I'm really enjoying reading it; very informative, easy to read and a bit irreverent which I really like. I will recommend it to all my friends. It deserves a wide readership!" Jon Harding, Senior HR Manager in charge of Leadership Development, Intercontinental Hotels Group

Leseprobe

Table of Contents

Title Page

Copyright Page

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR

Introduction

PERSONAL (SELF) LEADERSHIP

1. The 60 Second Leader and … - FAILURE

Forgive and remember. When Jack blew up the plant. The Tripping Point.

A 60 Second Leader Tale: Leading by example

2. The 60 Second Leader and … - INTUITION

How George Soros makes investment decisions and how Kjell Nordstrom’s dad finds fish.

A 60 Second Leader Tale: Branson and gut leadership … or how an unanswered ...

3. The 60 Second Leader and … - DECISIONS

Intuition and decisions. Not what but when. Decision markets.

A 60 Second Leader Tale: Unexpected leaders

4. The 60 Second Leader and… - CONNECTION

Leadership is personal. Mass personalization. And Death came third.

A 60 Second Leader Tale: Ikea’s ten-minute leader

5. The 60 Second Leader and … - LUCK

The gorilla and the basketball. Can you make your own luck?

A 60 Second Leader Tale: Covey on turning janitors into leaders

6. The 60 Second Leader and … - OPTIMISM

Confronting reality. The one and the many. Lead or led. Faith and fate.

A 60 Second Leader Tale: Why your mood is so important

LEADING THE ORGANIZATION

7. The 60 Second Leader and … - STRATEGY

The one thing you need to know about strategy … and horses.

A 60 Second Leader Tale: Leadership is allowing ordinary people to be extraordinary

8. The 60 Second Leader and … - COMPETITION

Refuse to compete. The blue and the red. Protect your advantage.

A 60 Second Leader Tale: Muhammad Yunus’ Blue Ocean Strategy

9. The 60 Second Leader and … - ACTION

To do or to be. A decision is not action. The six obstacles to action.

A 60 Second Leader Tale: Ricardo Semler on why your recruitment doesn’t work

10. The 60 Second Leader and … - EXECUTION

The great un-idea. The language of action. Three core processes.

A 60 Second Leader Tale: Collins, Roddick, red flags and red letters

11. The 60 Second Leader and … - MANAGEMENT

Manager or leader? Which are you expected to be?

A 60 Second Leader Tale: Michael Eisner’s Gong Show

12. The 60 Second Leader and … - CHANGE

Built to change. Idealistic versus naturalistic change. Epiphanies.

A 60 Second Leader Tale: How to trigger epiphanies

LEADING PEOPLE

13. The 60 Second Leader and … - QUESTIONS

Why leading by asking questions beats leading by telling.

A 60 Second Leader Tale: Leading change by asking questions

14. The 60 Second Leader and … - ATTENTION

Who’s the spotlight on? You or them?

A 60 Second Leader Tale: Abe Lincoln’s folded piece of paper

15. The 60 Second Leader and … - STORIES

You have three stories to tell. Here’s what they are.

A 60 Second Leader Tale: Making people part of the story

16. The 60 Second Leader and … - MOTIVATION

The three things people want. You are the incentive scheme.

A 60 Second Leader Tale: Handy on motivation

17. The 60 Second Leader and … - ENGAGEMENT

You don’t want loyalty. The sixth discipline. The one-firm firm.

A 60 Second Leader Tale: Buckingham on engagement

18. The 60 Second Leader and … - TARGETS

Look in the mirror. The Otis Redding problem. Unplanned success.

A 60 Second Leader Tale: What can’t yet be measured doesn’t get done

DISTRIBUTED LEADERSHIP

19. The 60 Second Leader and … - INNOVATION

The essential tension. Fast second. Mandate innovation.

A 60 Second Leader Tale: The Accidental Innovator - the power of the prepared mind

20 The 60 Second Leader and … - CULTURE

Culture change: ten things you can do. All culture is local.

A 60 Second Leader Tale: Participative leadership

21. The 60 Second Leader and … - LEADING FROM THE MIDDLE

The layer of clay. Pyramids are tombs. ‘Middle-up-down’ change

A 60 Second Leader Tale: True leaders feel their customer’s pain

22. The 60 Second Leader and … - CUSTOMERS

‘They serve like we lead.’ Prosumption. The new Golden Rule.

A 60 Second Leader Tale: Leaders on the frontline

23. The 60 Second Leader and … - FRONTLINE LEADERSHIP (1)

Where should leaders be? Out in the business

A 60 Second Leader Tale: Community of purpose

24. The 60 Second Leader and … - FRONTLINE LEADERSHIP (2)

Why most leadership fails. Distributed leadership. Go make footprints.

A 60 Second Leader Tale: Sam Walton’s rules

GREAT LEADERSHIP

25. The 60 Second Leader and … - EGO

The problem with heroes. The Icarus paradox. Bad to great?

A 60 Second Leader Tale: Who’s more important: you or me?

26. The 60 Second Leader and … - HUMILITY

Weak is the new strong. A community of purpose. The qualities of greatness.

A 60 Second Leader Tale: Gorbachev and humility

27. The 60 Second Leader and … - FEAR

What people fear. When John Kotter was scared. The opposite of fear.

A 60 Second Leader Tale: ‘You are capable of great things’

28. The 60 Second Leader and … - LOVE

What’s love got to do with it? Love is …

A 60 Second Leader Tale: Lead like Walt

29. The 60 Second Leader and … - PRESENCE

What comes next? Your leadership challenge

A 60 Second Leader Tale: When the boss disappeared

30. The 60 Second Leader and … - LEGACY

Leaders don’t create followers. They create more leaders.

A Final 60 Second Leader Tale: Herb Kelleher on leaving a legacy

WHERE NEXT?

INDEX

Copyright © Phil Dourado 2007

First published 2007

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Dourado, Phil.

60 second leader : everything you need to know about leadership, in 60 second bites / Phil Dourado.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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 Observer 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 his time between consulting, researching, writing, parenting and caring for his wife, who has Huntington’s disease. You can reach him through www.PhilDourado.com.

WHO THIS BOOK IS FOR

People in formal leadership positions are one type of leader. This book is for you. There are also many informal leaders, not recognized in the structure chart. This book is for you, too. Then there are would-be leaders, some of whom are being groomed as leaders by the organization you work for. This book is for you. Finally, and most interestingly, there are should-be leaders, the many potential leaders who do not even think of themselves as leadership material. This book is for them, too. If you know one, give them a copy. They are unlikely to pick it up themselves.

‘Most leadership strategies are doomed to failure from the outset … The first problem with all of the stuff that’s out there about leadership is that we haven’t got a clue what we’re talking about. We use the word “leader” to mean “executive”: The leader is the person at the top. That definition says that leadership is synonymous with a position. And if leadership is synonymous with a position, then it doesn’t matter what a leader does. All that matters is where the leader sits. If you define a leader as an executive, then you absolutely deny everyone else in an organization the opportunity to be a leader.’

Peter Senge

Introduction

THE 60 SECOND PHD IN LEADERSHIP

This book is a distillation of 30 essential elements of leadership into 60 second digestible chapters. There are also 30 true 60 Second Leader Tales in between the chapters to help bring some of the leader learning points to life.

However, I don’t want you to feel misled by the book title. So if you picked this book up expecting to find ‘how to be a great leader in 60 seconds’, then here it is:

THE 60 SECOND PHD IN LEADERSHIP

Think back to the best boss you ever had and the worst boss you ever had.

1. Make a list of all things done to you that you abhorred.

2. DON’T DO THEM TO OTHERS. EVER.

3. Make another list of things done to you that you loved.

4. DO THEM TO OTHERS. ALWAYS.

And you thought leadership was complicated.

Source: Dee Hock, founder of Visa. I first heard Hock’s 60 Second PhD in Leadership from Tom Peters, who uses it sometimes in his presentations.

So, if that is what you wanted - how to be a great leader in 60 seconds - the rest of this book is just gravy.