The Naked Leader E-Book

David Taylor

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Fachliteratur
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2012

Seitenzahl: 330

Beschreibung

Fasten your seat belt, it's all you need to wear. There is a new wave of thinking and action that puts people before process, choice before change, and meaning before money. We are now entering a new business, leadership and global age, with a vision, agenda and spirit born out of the realisation that there has to be a different way of success, business and leadership. One that sets us free from traditional business thinking, and takes you, your business and your life to new levels of awareness, success and achievement. This next business age is in your hands. The Naked Leader is the antithesis to the process driven mentality that has wasted so many millions, destroyed the trust between company and employee, and enabled so many companies to at best stand completely still. The Naked Leader is a distillation of David Taylor's ideas and inspiration - ideas which have made him Europe's most sought-after speaker on leadership and personal growth. David is known as the "Naked Leader" because of his extraordinary ability to strip away uncertainty and doubt, and conclusively show that everything we need to be successful, we already have. The Naked Leader shares hundreds of life-changing actions, including: * The fastest way to make any change in your life * How to build deep and lasting rapport with anyone * The 7 most powerful questions on earth * How to change how you feel, in a single heartbeat * The structure of guaranteed success * How to be an awesome presenter * Discovering who you really are, and why you are here The Naked Leader strips away the mystery, hype and jargon, to reveal the single formula for assured success that is available to everyone. The book is a journey which can be taken from beginning to end, or joined at any stage - taking you to wherever you want to be, drawing on the very best leadership thinking around the world, finally revealing the answer to the ultimate question, "who are you and why are you here?" Taylor reveals the exact, specific actions to take to predict the future, and then shape it. As a practitioner, not a theorist, Taylor knows what works, and what does not. He shows us what to do, and exactly when to do it. No matter what your vision, challenge or present position, The Naked Leader ensures that you succeed, making your future no longer a matter of chance, but rather a matter of choice. It is powerful, and the results are amazing.

Leseprobe

Table of Contents

Cover

Title page

Copyright page

Dedication

Epilogue

THANK YOU

DELIVERING THE DREAM

1 THE STRUCTURE OF GUARANTEED SUCCESS

2 LIVING AS A LEADER

3 OUR SECRET DRIVING FORCES

4 A LEADER’S BIGGEST TIMEWASTERS

5 THE POWER OF MENTORING

6 JOB EVALUATION IN THE BIN

7 REVERSE HEADHUNTING – GET YOUR OWN BACK

8 SYNCHRONICITY

9 WHO’S TO BLAME?

10 LEADERS BORN AND NOT MADE!

11 BALANCE THE SOURCES OF POWER

12 CHARISMA IN A HEARTBEAT!

13 YOUR CV STANDS, OR FALLS, FOR YOU

14 INFLUENCE IN COMPANY MEETINGS (BORING OR OTHERWISE)

15 YOUR TEAM – FROM GOOD TO UNSTOPPABLE

16 OWNERSHIP – WHO’S IN CHARGE OF YOU?

17 INTEGRITY-BASED NETWORKING

18 ORGANISATIONAL DE-STRUCTURES

19 ROOM 101

20 DOOM OR DISASTER, WELCOME TO NEG-LAND

21 FOLLOWING THE LINES AND BREAKING THE RULES

22 JARGON FREE NLP!

23 RECAPTURE THE MAGIC . . . 

24 SKILLS OF LEADERSHIP OVER MANAGEMENT

25 ‘OH, I’VE HAD SUCH A CURIOUS DREAM!’

26 SUCCESSION PLANNING

27 YOUR PERSONALITY BECOMES THEIR PERSONALITY . . . 

28 PROJECT SUCCESS

29 THE POWER OF STATE – EVERYONE NEEDS A PLACE TO BE

30 THE FASTEST WAY TO MAKE ANY CHANGE IN YOUR LIFE

31 LEADERSHIP BY MAGAZINE

32 VALUES-BASED LEADERSHIP

33 MODELLING

34 HIDDEN ACCOUNT MANAGEMENT

35 MAKING SUCCESS SO EASY TO ACHIEVE, AND FAILURE IMPOSSIBLE

36 INSPIRATION JUST GOT REAL

37 ONE TEAM – ONE VOICE

38 ATTRACTING THE HEADHUNTERS

39 MAKING YOUR STRATEGIES AS ONE

40 OUR NEXT GENERATION

41 BUILDING TOTAL AND ABSOLUTE RAPPORT

42 ENLIGHTENED LEADERSHIP

43 PROJECT LEADERSHIP

44 THE CHOICE OF OPPOSITES

45 PEOPLE MEAN BUSINESS – IMPROVE PERFORMANCE BY AT LEAST 10%

46 THE FIVE PITFALLS OF LEADERSHIP

47 THE MOST POWERFUL QUESTIONS ON EARTH . . . PLUS . . . 

48 AWESOME PRESENTATIONS

49 LEADERSHIP IN TIMES OF WAR . . . 

50 THE 7 GREATEST CONSPIRACIES OF SUCCESS

51 LEADERSHIP BY E-MAIL

Index

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For Rosalind and all my family, with all my love

The greatest mystery of life, is who we truly are.

Alexandre Dumas

THANK YOU

God, and (in alphabetical order), Douglas Adams, Adam Afriyie, Philip Allen, Mark Allin, David Barker, Jon Bernstein, John Blake, Robin Bloor, Gareth Brown, René Carayol, Stephen Clint, Joe Crosbie, Ken Deeks, Neale Donald Walsch, Paul Downs, Tricia Drakes, Adrian Gilpin, Nicola Hunt, Hugh Macken, Lex McKee, Bill Parslow, Brinley Platts, John Riley, Nigel Risner, Anthony Robbins, Karl Schneider, Charlotte Smith, Colin Turner, Brenda White.

DELIVERING THE DREAM

Books are very personal, and we will read them as we wish. We will fold over the corners of the page, but scream at others for doing the same. We will scribble in the margins (sometimes in pen), we will write a large NO every now and again.

Quite right too.

Welcome to a very personal book.

This book is yours, and like all books you can read it in any way that you wish. Business authors tell me how upset they get when they hear of their books being read any way other than they intended. Apparently being read backwards is sacrilege, randomly is unforgivable, and not at all is normal, with only 10% of business books being read beyond the first chapter, let alone finished, or actioned on!

As this is my first book, I am probably being very naïve, but I wanted to make this book as different as everyone reading this, as exciting as life can be, and as personal to you as possible. So, in addition to the many ways you can read any book, I am also providing you with thousands of additional choices.

Success is a very personal and unique experience – yours – and as leaders we are all on different paths, and that is exactly what I have provided.

If you don’t like this idea, blame me, and read it any way you wish, if you do like this idea, thanks go to Olivia, my stepdaughter.

The Naked Leader is an adventure, taking you to wherever you want to be. It can be travelled from beginning to end, or joined at any stage.

It is structured around seven journeys, starting with The Structure of Guaranteed Success and ending with, well, you will see.

You can choose to follow your own journey all the way through, or you can switch at any stage to a different journey.

The seven journeys are:

Leadership of … 

1

Self

2

People

3

Teams

4

Company

5

Culture

6

Skills

7

Career

Each ‘inspiration’ will be a 500–800 word article, in the following structure:

where you have come from;

where you are on your personal journey;

500–800 words on the challenge, issue or subject: what it means and exactly what to do to achieve what you want and move on; and

an inspirational story, person or example.

Each one is stand-alone, and can form part of whatever journey you have chosen.

Why Naked? Because it’s time to strip away the hype, the jargon and complexity that surrounds success. It’s time for profound simplicity. And so, each section is totally pragmatic, and written in clear, concise, jargon-free language.

With many options before you, welcome to The Naked Leader, and to Naked Leadership.

1

THE STRUCTURE OF GUARANTEED SUCCESS

Imagine that success has a structure. Imagine it as a formula, and that, if you follow it, you will achieve whatever you dream, desire and deserve. In effect, imagine that success is guaranteed.

Guaranteed, no matter what your background, your present position, where you want to go, or who you want to be.

Imagine no more, for your success is indeed guaranteed. It is a formula that, when followed, will lead you wherever you want to go. We cannot forget change, or chance, as they will play a part, however your fundamental driving force, by far, is choice.

Your future, your choice.

Over the last seven years I have been studying every theory, reality and form of leadership, with three aims in mind:

1 To discover if there is a common formula that runs throughout them all.

2 To find out what always works; not to invent something new, indeed, quite the reverse.

3 To remove all of the academic jargon, author hype and deliberate mystery, and apply everything that works into day-to-day realities for people like you and me.

And so Naked Leadership was formed – an approach to leadership that strips away the hype, applies the most powerful, proven tools and techniques to real life without any inherent mystery, and gives people back to themselves.

Naked Leadership has seven principles, and the first is that success has a structure, it is a formula and, despite everything that we have been told, that formula is very, very simple.

Having read literally hundreds of success, business and leadership books, attended conferences throughout the world, and worked with individuals, teams and organisations, I have found the formula for success is always the same. And this was an amazing discovery, as often this formula has been hidden behind the most amazing jargon, hype and mystery.

The aim of this book is to blow all of that away; so, to start with, here it is – just a few pages in – the formula for success that other books take hundreds of pages to reveal.

The formula for guaranteed success:

1Know where you want to go.

2Know where you are now.

3Know what you have to do, to get to where you want to go.