A revolutionary approach to the concept of leadership, one that makes sense of how leadership can be bottom-up as well as top-down. Challenges conventional wisdom to create a powerful new way of looking at leadership that greatly enhances the empowerment and engagement of all employees with the courage to take a leadership stand. Bound to be controversial as it argues that leadership is just a matter of promoting new directions, that it has nothing to do with managing a team to get things done. That is a management task where management is upgraded to be empowering, supportive and facilitative, not merely controlling.
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''This marvellously thought provoking book turned my ideas about leadership on their head, giving the conventional wisdom a good kicking. --personal letter - Keith Harcus
''Makes it crystal clear how each of us can be a leader and make a difference. I highly recommend it.'' --personal letter - Paul Thornton
''This book doesn't just challenge you. It shakes up everything you ever assumed about leadership.'' – Eric Garner, ManageTrainLearn --personal letter
''Makes it crystal clear how each of us can be a leader and make a difference. I highly recommend it.'' --personal letter - Paul Thornton
''This book doesn't just challenge you. It shakes up everything you ever assumed about leadership.'' – Eric Garner, ManageTrainLearn --personal letter
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Business psychologist for 30 years, Canada and the UK, Ph.D. in Philosophy of Psychology, University of Western Ontario, 1975. Two previous books: Unleash the Entrepreneur Within, 1995 and The Change Master, 1997. Visit www.leadersdirect.com for more.
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I've been a student of leadership for some time, and I must acknowledge that "Burn! Leadership Myths in Flames" is simply the most thought-provoking and relevant work on leadership that I've ever read. If you want to get a definitive clarification on the essential qualities of what defines a leader, today and in the future, as opposed to what defines a manager than read this book. Mitch McCrimmon provides a framework for the oncoming leadership paradigm shift and brings hope to a world in desparate need of authentic innovative leaders! If a beginning learner were to buy one book on leadership, this is it. The second book I'd recommend is Jim Collins, "Good to Great."
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organic decision making, outsider leadership, paternal leader, showing leadership, influencing style, influencing skills, fostering leadership, prospective followers, conventional leadership, leadership myths, thought leadership, genuine leadership, content leadership, mechanistic organizations, leadership impact, organic organization, situational requirement Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Are you an executive burdened by a grotesquely broad set of leadership expectations? Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
organic decision making, outsider leadership, paternal leader, showing leadership, influencing style, influencing skills, fostering leadership, prospective followers, conventional leadership, leadership myths, thought leadership, genuine leadership, content leadership, mechanistic organizations, leadership impact, organic organization, situational requirement Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Jack Welch, Martin Luther King, Tom Bower, Jim Collins, John Wells, The Steward, The Leadership Challenge, Frederick Taylor, Sales Director, Bill Gates, Abraham Zaleznik New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Leadership Challenge, 3rd Edition by James M. Kouzes on 8 pages
- Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't by Jim Collins on 6 pages
- Leading the Revolution by Gary Hamel on page 18, page 99, and Back Matter
- Leadership in Organizations (6th Edition) by Gary A. Yukl on page 53, and Back Matter
- Managing the Human Animal by Nigel Nicholson on page 78, and Back Matter
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