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DYNAMIC LEADER, ADAPTIVE ORGANIZATION
"This is the first in-depth guide for how to create an organization full of people who are reaching their potential. Dynamic Leader will become the executive handbook on practical leadership."
-Bob Nelson, author of the bestselling 1001 Ways to Reward Employees
From an enormously accelerated pace of change to the need for clearly defined but infinitely flexible strategies, the new economy has produced a vast array of new work challenges. Now, the highly acclaimed author of FastAlliances(TM) introduces an innovative leadership methodology that allows managers to surpass these rising demands.
In Dynamic Leader, Adaptive Organization, renowned executive educator Larraine Segil identifies changing leadership models and reveals the ten critical characteristics for dynamic leaders in companies that must be flexible. She explains how these characteristics-fearlessness, completion, commitment, integrity, and more-enable managers and their organizations to adapt to changing environments and to direct change to their own advantage.
Ms. Segil organizes these crucial characteristics into the ten-pronged Larraine Segil Matrix(TM), a potent, step-by-step tool that enables you to:
* Understand and analyze your organizational environment
* Evaluate yourself as a leader
* Create a framework to use as a personal development tool
* Assess the fit between yourself and your organization
* Infuse your organization with adaptive characteristics
Based on interviews with more than 250 CEOs and senior executives from the world's most successful corporations, this authoritative guide illustrates the effects of dynamic leadership with diverse case histories such as of Shell Oil, Esquire magazine, Target, Kaiser Permanente, Kodak, and Xerox.
This innovative approach to management excellence helps you communicate more effectively; forge powerful relationships; and create a more flexible, more profitable organization. No matter what level of management you currently occupy, Dynamic Leader, Adaptive Organization gives you the knowledge, the techniques, and the confidence you need to become a change leader in your organization.
From the Back Cover
Acclaim for Segil's Ten Revolutionary Traits
"Larraine's thought leadership in alliances has added great value to our relationships at Compaq. Now she has created something new in the overcrowded field of leadership advice. What differentiates Larraine's insights is that whatever she recommends, she has done herself. This book shows how to stop repeating the mistakes of the past while clearing the path for an energetic and results-oriented future."
-Jeff Clarke, CFO and Senior Vice President
Finance and Administration, Compaq Computer Corporation
"Attracting and retaining great people means giving them a place to grow and reach their dreams. Every CEO strives to achieve this goal. New ways to make it happen were scarce. Until now: Larraine Segil's formula will accelerate the desired results. Larraine knows her stuff in the area of alliances and has provided great value over many years to the senior executives of Butler Manufacturing and our customers. When she recommends an approach, we listen. Dynamic Leader is no exception."
-John Holland, Chairman and CEO, Butler Manufacturing
"Fast-growing, high-growth companies like ours need decisive and courageous management. Larraine Segil's matrix(TM) is exactly what we want from our people and our company as our culture evolves and the demands on us increase. It's a clear mandate for the present and future of Paypal."
-Peter Thiel, Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer, Paypal
"Leadership is an abused term. Larraine Segil has it right. Her matrix(TM) adds real value to this field of management. Plus she writes really well-Dynamic Leader is a pleasure to read with substance-excellent value!"
-Warren Bennis, University Professor and Distinguished Professor of Business Administration, USC, and author of the forthcoming Geeks and Geezers
"In the financial and investment world, people who produce results are essential to the success of the enterprise. How to reward high achievers in ways that create loyalty and commitment is a continual challenge. Segil has the formula that will create loyalty in high achievers and keep the organization aware, intelligent, and responsive. In turbulent times-whether the market is up or down-you could hardly ask for anything more than Segil's approach."
-Alexandra Lebenthal, President, Lebenthal & Lebenthal
