Mastering Self Leadership, Third Edition [Paperback]

Charles Manz (Author), Christopher Neck (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 20, 2003 | ISBN-10: 0131400460 | ISBN-13: 978-0131400467 | Edition: 3

For courses in leadership. A brief inexpensive paperback on self-management that provides a comprehensive self-help guide grounded in principles and research. It provides powerful advice and tools and emphasizes the principle: First learn to lead yourself, and then you will be in a solid position to effectively lead others. Mastering Self-Leadership explores methods for achieving personal goals using self-assessment, self-reward, self-talk, mental imagery, teamthink and other cutting-edge concepts and exercises.

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Mastering Self-Leadership is a comprehensive self-help guide that is thoroughly grounded in sound principles and research. It effectively addresses the most interesting subject you will ever encounter—yourself. If you want to be more effective in your work and life, this book is for you. Mastering Self Leadership provides powerful advice and the tools for leading yourself to personal excellence. Informative sidebars written by experts in the field are included in this updated third edition, as well as a new chapter focused on the crucial self-leadership challenge of creating good health and fitness. This landmark book offers a practical perspective that should serve as the foundation for the study of management and is grounded in a simple yet revolutionary principle: First learn to lead yourself, and then you will be in a solid position to effectively lead others.

About the Author

Charles C. Manz is a speaker, consultant, and best-selling business author who has written more than 100 articles and 14 books. He won the Stybel-Peabody National Book Award, and his work has been featured in many national business publications, including the Wall Street Journal, Fortune, and Success. He received the prestigious Marvin Bower Fellowship at the Harvard Business School and is currently the Nirenberg Professor of Business Leadership in the School of Management at the University of Massachusetts. His clients have included 3M, Ford, Xerox, General Motors, American Express, and many others.

Christopher P. Neck is a nationally known motivational speaker, consultant, and author. He has been quoted extensively in numerous international outlets, including the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times. His books include Medicine for the Mind: Healing Words to Help You Soar (1997), For Team Members Only: Making Your Workplace Team Productive and Hassle-Free (1997), and The Wisdom of Solomon at Work (2001). He is currently an associate professor of management at Virginia Tech.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall; 3 edition (May 20, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0131400460
• ISBN-13: 978-0131400467
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.9 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,971,697 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book will have an impact on the quality of your life!, May 10, 2001

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Michael G. Goldsby (Evansville, IN United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mastering Self Leadership: Empowering Yourself for Personal Excellence (2nd Edition) (Paperback)

Mastering Self Leadership by Charles C. Manz and Christopher P. Neck is an outstanding book, which I highly recommend to anyone wanting to attain a higher quality of life in their personal and business affairs. I have used this book in the management courses I teach to undergraduate business students with great success. We encourage businesspeople to be more innovative and to be risk takers, and no book gives them more aid in accomplishing this goal than Manz and Neck's work. In fact, I have worked the book into sessions I call "Executive and Entrepreneurial Workshops."

Students always thank me at the end of the semester for using the book because they implement the methods during the semester. For example, one student told me she used to doze off during school and church, but, after reading the book, she goes to bed earlier and wakes up more refreshed. As a result, she pinpointed her weakness, as the book suggests, and then developed a personal strategy that led to her receiving the highest grades she had ever attained in school. This is just one of many success stories I have heard from students who have read this book.

What makes this book so successful and separates it from other "self help" books is that it is based on solid research from Dr. Manz and Dr. Neck, the two most respected figures on self leadership in the management field. Plus, the book is easy to follow, and also inspiring. The authors do an excellent job of summarizing the key ideas of the approach in later chapters and provide a very effective picture of the way one's thinking can lead to their own success or failure. I truly enjoyed reading the book and felt motivated to put the strategies into action. In fact, I am always sure to reread the book each time I teach my class, in order to motivate me to continue to improve in my own pursuits. I always advise my students to read three books, which I consider the keystones of success: Flow by Czikzentmihalyi, You Are the Message by Roger Ailes, and Mastering Self-Leadership by Manz and Neck.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars WOW!!! Manz and Neck score with Mastering Self-Leadership., December 3, 2001

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Jim Wright (Indianapolis, IN USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Mastering Self Leadership: Empowering Yourself for Personal Excellence (2nd Edition) (Paperback)

I read Mastering Self-Leadership in my MGT 491 course at Ball State University. While enrolled in the Strategic Management course, we covered Self-Leadership and used Manz and Neck's book as our guide. I found the book to be extremely insightful, with many stories and exercises that allow the reader to evaluate their own behavior in becoming a self-leader. I decided to keep the book, so that I can track my progress in leading myself. A must read!!!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Title Speaks for Itself, April 7, 2009

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Barbara Wanlass (Mesa, AZ) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Mastering Self-Leadership: Empowering Yourself for Personal Excellence (4th Edition) (Paperback)

This was the textbook used for my Self-Leadership class. It is better than the typical self-help book because it contains practical exercises that get people to recognize how they think and how thoughts influence behavior. I have already recommended this book to friends just for the enjoyment of reading about concepts they already know but just can't quite apply in practice. This book will get you there.