The 'I' of Leadership : Strategies for Seeing, Being and Doing

This is the leadership book you have to read: a barn-storming new take on what makes a versatile, integrated, and effective leader Using stories and examples from the lives of leaders, from the sports stadium to the White House to the office of the CEO, Nicholson shows vividly how the capacity of leaders to see what others do not see frames their actions and allows them to transform, build, destroy, or stabilize. Leaders fail through lack of insight—into themselves and into the worlds they inhabit. The strategic challenge of leadership is to find the right balance between impact and versatility and the successful crafting of an identity that merges the leader and the surrounding culture or 'zeitgeist.' Leaders covered in the book include: George Bush, Tony Blair, George S Patton, Warren Buffet, Steve Jobs, Josef Stalin, Hannibal, Elizabeth I, Nelson Mandela, Edith Cowan, Abraham Lincoln, Mohandas Gandhi, Henry Ford, Ernest Shackleton, Barack Obama, Robert Maxwell, JFK, Pope John XXIII, Margaret Thatcher, and Samuel Pepys. This book resonates with insights and searching questions on the nature of human leadership. It will be an invaluable guide to managers, consultants, and people everywhere. I am usually a sceptic about leadership manuals but this is the exception, original and highly readable. Sir Ian Blair, Baron Blair of Boughton, Former Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Leadership is one of the most popular topics in business, and yet few books succeed in laying bare the inner resources successful leaders rely on. Nigel Nicholsons highly readable book glimpses the lives and choices of leaders in all walks of life the world over and shows vividly how the capacity of leaders to see what others do not see frames their actions and allows them to transform, build, destroy, or stabilize. Sixteen chapters present different sets of stories and challenges and illustrate how different leaders in all walks of life, have responded to critical turning points. The chapters are peppered with stories and examples from the lives of leaders, such as: Steve Jobs , Tony Blair, Benazir Bhutto, Malcolm X, Barack Obama, Warren Buffet , Mahatma Gandhi, Margaret Thatcher, Abraham Lincoln, Ernest Shackleton and Henry Ford, amongst others This book resonates with insights and searching questions on the nature of human leadership. It will be an invaluable guide to managers, consultants and people in all walks of life. This is the leadership book you have to read: a barn-storming new take on what makes aversatile, integrated and effective leader. Using stories and examples from the lives of leaders, (from the sports stadium to the White House to the office of the CEO), Nicholson shows vividly how the capacity of leaders to see what others do not see frames their actions and allows them to transform, build, destroy, or stabilize. Leaders fail through lack of insight -- into themselves and into the worlds they inhabit. The strategic challenge of leadership is to find the right balance between impact and versatility and the successful crafting of an identity that merges the leader and the surrounding culture or 'zeitgeist' . Leaders covered in the book include: George Bush, Tony Blair, George S Patton, Warren Buffet, Steve Jobs, Josef Stalin, Hannibal, Elizabeth I, Nelson Mandela, Edith Cowan, Abraham Lincoln, Mohandas Gandhi, Henry Ford, Ernest Shackleton, Barack Obama, Robert Maxwell, JFK, Pope John XXIII, Margaret Thatcher and Samuel Pepys. This book resonates with insights and searching questions on the nature of human leadership. It will be an invaluable guide to managers, consultants and people everywhere BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT. 'I am usually a sceptic about leadership manuals but this is the exception, original and highly readable.' Sir Ian Blair, Baron Blair of Boughton, Former Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police Leadership is one of the most popular topics in business, and yet few books succeed in laying bare the inner resources successful leaders rely on. Nigel Nicholson's highly readable book glimpses the lives and choices of leaders in all walks of life the world over and shows vividly how the capacity of leaders to see what others do not see frames their actions and allows them to transform, build, destroy, or stabilize. Sixteen chapters present different sets of stories and challenges and illustrate how different leaders in all walks of life, have responded to critical turning points This book provides insights and searching questions on the nature of human leadership. With stories and examples from the lives of leaders, from the sports stadium to the White House to the office of the CEO, it illustrates how the capacity of leaders to see what others do not see frames their actions and allows them to transform, build, destroy, or stabilize. Abstract: This is the leadership book you have to read: a barn-storming new take on what makes aversatile, integrated and effective leader. � Read more... Content: It goes with the territory :leadership moments -- Leadership in the wild :the evolution of power -- A very short history of leadership -- Leadership as strategy situations, processes and qualities (SPQ) -- Endnotes -- Index.