The John Adair Lexicon of Leadership : the Definitive Guide to Leadership Skills and Knowledge.
From the renowned leadership expert John Adair comes this compendium of all his classic works, including How to Grow Leaders, The Inspirational Leader, Leadership and Motivation, Not Bosses but Leaders, Leadership for Innovation and Art of Creative Thinking. With his distinctive insight into how lea...
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Kogan Page,
2011.
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Table of Contents:
- Part 1. Not bosses but leaders. Qualities of leadership ; The circles interact ; Leaders or managers? ;High-performance teams ; The purpose of industry ; Moving from plans to action ; Sharing and caring ; Leadership and power ; Leadership from within
- Part 2. The inspirational leader. The three basic approaches ; The authority of knowing ; Levels of leadership ; Giving and receiving ; Beyond the call of duty ; The common task ; Pulling the threads together ; The why question ; The test of leadership ; Towards excellence
- Part 3. How to grow leaders. Exploring leadership : a personal odyssey ; The qualities approach ; The group or functional approach ; Leaders or managers? ; The situational pproach ; Levels of leadership ; How to grow leaders : the seven principles ; Principle one : training for leadership ; Principle two : selection ; Principle three : line managers as leadership mentors ; Principle four : the chance to lead ; Principle five : education for leadership ; Principle six : a strategy for leadership development ; Principle seven : the chief executive
- Part 4. Leadership and motivation. Functional leadership ; action-centred leadership ; The fifty-fifty rule ; Maslow's hierarchy of needs ; The application of Maslow's ideas in industry ; Herzberg's motivation : hygiene theory ; How to motivate others : the eight principles of motivation ; Parting reflections : towards a new theory of motivation
- Part 5. Leadership for innovation. What is innovation? ; The conditions for successful innovation ; Organizing for team creativity ; Case study : the DNA laboratory ; Case study : Soichiro Honda : leader for innovation ; Real commitment from the top ; How to motivate the creative individual ; Team creativity ; Harvesting ideas ; Overcoming resistance to change ; Conclusion : leadership for innovation
- Part 6. The art of creative thinking. On human creativity ; Use the stepping stones of analogy ; Make the strange familiar and the familiar strange ; Widen your span of relevance ; Practise seredipity ; Chance favours only the prepared mind ; Curiosity ; Keep your eyes open ; Listen for ideas ; Reading to generate ideas ; Keep a notebook ; Test your assumptions ; Make better use of your depth mind ; Do not wait for inspiration ; Sharpen your analytical skills ; Suspend judgement ; Learn to tolerate ambiguity ; Drift, wait and obey ; Sleep on the problem ; Working it out ; Think creatively about your life.