Lead With Authenticity will help you discover and develop your own personal leadership style. In the process, this remarkable new leadership guide will allow you to make a greater impact on others, enjoy business success, and lead a life of joy and fulfillment. Gary Ostwald's conscious, systematic approach toward leadership development will reveal your individual strengths -- and, just as important, your weaknesses -- to help you create and utilize a leadership style that is entirely your own. Step by step, you will learn to develop your leadership skills through an exploration of the latest research from top business and leadership minds, as well as Ostwald's own experiences as a teacher, researcher and leader. The assessment tools included in Lead With Authenticity will help you: 1) communicate more effectively using the Arrow of Authenticity tool, 2) recognize your limitations and accept personal responsibility for your shortcomings, and 3) create a culture of teamwork by assessing your Team Intelligence skills and understanding how conflict and creative abrasion can actually be beneficial.
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I loved this book! Lead with Authenticity is internally consistent with the notion of the importance of character in leadership. I also liked the fact that Gary Ostwald acknowledges that leadership is a choice one makes signifying commitment...and this is as important as talent. --Dr. Lloyd Lewan, Executive Dean Emeritus, Semester at Sea.
Lead with Authenticity offers sound practical advice from a strong theoretical foundation and challenges the heart, not just the mind. Dr. Ostwald provides practical tools, honest vignettes, and striking imagery. He is persuasive without being preachy. His book gives the reader a clear illumination on the bridge between good self-management and great team management. --Dr. Murray Young, Dean of Business, Thompson Rivers University.
Lead with Authenticity has been so relevant and practical for me. Professor Ostwald is an amazingly strong teacher with a very engaging and empowering style. He makes the material come to life. Thank you for your investment into the lives of aspiring leaders. --Selena Headley, Executive Director, Community Development Leadership School.
Lead with Authenticity offers sound practical advice from a strong theoretical foundation and challenges the heart, not just the mind. Dr. Ostwald provides practical tools, honest vignettes, and striking imagery. He is persuasive without being preachy. His book gives the reader a clear illumination on the bridge between good self-management and great team management. --Dr. Murray Young, Dean of Business, Thompson Rivers University.
Lead with Authenticity has been so relevant and practical for me. Professor Ostwald is an amazingly strong teacher with a very engaging and empowering style. He makes the material come to life. Thank you for your investment into the lives of aspiring leaders. --Selena Headley, Executive Director, Community Development Leadership School.
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Gary Ostwald (BSIE, MBA, PhD) is Associate Professor of Management at Eastern University in St. Davids, Pennsylvania. Previously, he was on the faculty of the University of Denver Daniels College of Business where he taught leadership development courses in their MBA program. Dr. Ostwald is a consultant and leadership coach for garyostwald.com and a frequent speaker and workshop leader. Gary has presented leadership development workshops for Amity Foundation in China, Association for Experiential Education (AEE), State Farm Mountain States University, and Associated General Contractors of America (AGC), among others.
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Gary Ostwald (BSIE, MBA, PhD) is Associate Professor of Management at Eastern University in St. Davids, Pennsylvania. Previously, he was on the faculty of the University of Denver's Daniels College of Business where he taught leadership and management courses in their MBA program. Gary is trained in industrial engineering, leadership development and human communication studies. He serves as a leadership coach & consultant for TeamSpeak Coaching in Denver, Colorado. Gary has spoken at the Amity Foundation in China, the Association for Experiential Education (AEE) International Conferences, and the Christian Community Development Association (CCDA) National Conferences. Gary is an avid sea kayaker and his sea kayaking expeditions have included Mexico, Canada, Ireland and the USA, both east and west coasts. Recently, Gary circumnavigated Kunghit Island and Cape St. James in the Queen Charlotte Islands, Canada.
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This text provides a solid understanding of the principles of authentic leadership utilizing an assessment format along with key information to assist the reader to identify what it takes to become a truly authentic leader. It offers sound, practical advice from which all people can benefit to some degree. This text also helps the reader reflect upon their own personal leadership style and offers keen insights to make the reader a better leader using the "11 steps of authenticity" detailed in the various chapters. This is an especially good book for any new leader just developing a personal leadership style in that it will help raise self-awareness to help the new leader obtain the necessary skills to lead with authenticity.
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This review is from: Lead With Authenticity: Discover and Develop Your Own Leadership Style (Perfect Paperback)
As an aspiring authentic leader, I highly recommend Dr. Ostwald's book, Lead with Authenticity. Authentic leadership training is hard to come by, but Ostwald perfectly balances the cliché of leading from your strengths against recognizing and accounting for your weaknesses and vulnerabilities.
No one can read this book and not learn something new. It is rooted in theory, backed with years of experience, and packed with practical applications. This book will make an immediate impact on your views and perceptions of what leadership is, and your co-workers will thank you for Leading with Authenticity.
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This review is from: Lead With Authenticity: Discover and Develop Your Own Leadership Style (Perfect Paperback)
As a practitioner in leadership development and someone who has trained many co-workers and interns over the years, I have found this book an excellent and most useful resource for training and developing leaders, as well as personally beneficial. The book is not only easy to read and use, but it comes with discussion questions at the end of each section, which can be used for discussion and interaction in the leadership development process with one's colleagues. I most highly recommend this resource.
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