Due North (Hardcover)

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Product Description

Are you consciously and intentionally strengthening your Leadership Assets™? Due North! will help you:

>·Acquire greater self-awareness
>·Nurture valuable relationships
>·Be a stronger contributor to results
>·Adopt a Coach Approach to challenges
>·Achieve personal and professional goals

Whether you are a seasoned executive or an individual seeking greater success, Due North! offers 12 Leadership Assets™ that you should master:

>·Harness the Power of Coaching
>·Exhibit an Affirmative Attitude and Purposeful Behavior
>·Ride the Crests of Change
>·Communicate in a Dynamic, Essential, and Effective Manner
>·Prize Diversity
>·Excel in Performance
>·Exercise your Teamwork
>·Surf the waves of Technology
>·Command your Time Management
>·Eternalize a Life of Service
>·Calibrate Your Work/Life Equation
>·Crystallize Your Personal and Professional Framework

Jylla Moore Foster shares her leadership journey in Due North! through stories about her life experiences as a corporate executive, entrepreneur, community activist and mother. The roadmap she offers those who join her on this journey includes mile markers of Coachable Moments, masterfully intertwined with elements of her professional training as an executive coach. She provides a Coach Approach for you to develop greater self-awareness, achieve professional breakthroughs and reach personal goals.

Upholding the belief that we often climb on the shoulders of others, best practices, assessments, books and references that guided Jylla's journey are incorporated so that you can navigate quickly to additional resources for greater truths and deeper understanding.

Self-awareness is awesome but self-actualization of Leadership Assets™ will create a legacy life.

About the Author

Jylla Moore Foster is President and CEO of Crystal Stairs, Inc. Her passion is to strengthen Leadership Assets™ that will cause conscious and intentional shifts in individuals, teams, businesses, organizations and institutions resulting in the development of legacy leaders. A dominant, conscientious, creative and inspirational leader, she is a results-driven, action-oriented individual who provides greater self-awareness and focused coaching to help her clients gain professional breakthroughs and reach personal goals. An executive coach, trainer, consultant and speaker, she is also a mother, former IBM vice president and the 20th international president of Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc. She holds an MBA from Indiana University as a Consortium for Graduate Study in Business Fellow and is graduate of Corporate Coach University. She has been inducted into the National Business and Professional Women’s Corporate Hall of Fame; hailed as a "Woman to Watch" by Black Enterprise Magazine; and, applauded as the recipient of keys to more than 25 cities for her community service endeavors. Jylla earned her B.S. degree in mathematics and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Livingstone College. She is a native of Salisbury, NC and now resides in Chicago, IL.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 180 pages
• Publisher: Crystal Stairs, Inc.; First Edition edition (November 15, 2002)
• ISBN-10: 0972244107
• ISBN-13: 978-0972244107
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.2 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,077,594 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Due North, February 25, 2003

By	"dlchima" (Chicago) - See all my reviews

I found the book to be extemely useful in communicating the 12 Leadership techniques and stressing the importance of each individual becoming a coach.
I was familiar with a lot of the recommendations so I was able to glean additional insight on the subject of leadership by reading the perspective of this author.
I found the assessment checklists found throughout the book to be helpful in reviewing my individual status concerning leadership.
I would highly recommend this book to any individual seeking to improve their visibility in their chosen field.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Leadership in the 21st Century, January 29, 2003

By	Kenni Blache' (Cincinnati, Ohio) - See all my reviews

As a current participate in Leadership21, in Southeastern Butler County in Ohio, I have found that Due North captures the true essence of what leadership is and should be today. It is amazing how Ms. Foster is able to zero on the qualities and characterizations of true Leadership. Her words are heartfelt and inspirational. I have already recommended Due North as to the 30 participate of SEBC Leadership21. I hope that it will offer them the encouragement that we sometimes needs as our community strives to develop responsive productive leaders with the abilities to make true contributions. I would also recommend it personally to anyone that is interested in continual personal growth.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The BluePrint for Effective Leadership, February 18, 2003

By	Vercilla A. Brown (Washington, DC Metropolitan Area) - See all my reviews

Due North encourages CEOs and any Executive level professional to share problems and concerns by providing an opportunity for its readers to hear from an internationally known executive.
Due North provides the formula that allow a leader to examine how their values and visions may influence the way they lead their company, organization or association.
I strongly recommend readers to utilize this high level blueprint that will enable you to explore your strategies and change the way you think and feel about your role as an executive leader.