Marianne Abib Pech

Financial Times Guide to Leadership, The (eBook, ePUB)

How To Lead Effectively And Get Results

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Produktbeschreibung

• What good leadership looks like
• How to build your own leadership style
• Techniques to lead and influence others
• How to build and execute your vision

Everything you need to know to become an authentic and dynamic leader.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pearson HigherEducation
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. März 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780273779155
• Artikelnr.: 38186582

Autorenporträt

Marianne Abib-Pech is the Founder of Leaders! a leadership consulting firm operating in Europe and Asia. She started her own leadership journey in Arthur Andersen and rose from analyst to Global CFO of Shell Aviation, a multi billion turnover business, in the short span of 10 years. She acquired and further honed her leadership skills through the High Potential programme at General Electric and more generally by experiencing four different industries, working in five different countries and with more than 45 different nationalities.

Marianne has always been passionate about finding and developing talent in her own teams. She designed and implemented a programme for emerging leaders while at Shell Finance. The success of the programme laid out the foundations of Leaders!

In her spare time, she sits on several boards of start-ups and is a regular columnist for Global Corporate Venturing, The Huffington Post and The Independent

Inhaltsangabe

About the author
Author’s acknowledgements
Publisher’s acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction 
How to use this book
 
 
Part 1 What is leadership?
 
 
1 A definition of leadership
 
Leadership in history
 
The pathways to leadership
 
The five key things leaders do
 
Summary
 
 
2 Leadership today
 
A fast-changing world
 
New conundrums … new leaders
 
Summary
 
 
 
 
Part 2: Finding the leader inside you
 
 
3 Building your self-awareness
 
Finding the keys to your self
 
Defining your personal leadership style
 
Creating your own performance card
 
Summary
 
 
4 Gaining self-confidence
 
The three cornerstones of self-esteem
 
Letting go of your fears
 
Summary
 
5 Developing your leadership brand
 
Building a powerful leadership brand
 
Brand accelerators: charisma and gravitas
 
Summary
 
 
Part 3: Leading and influencing – bringing others on the journey
 
 
6 Building your credibility as a leader
 
Mastering career management
 
Living by your values
 
Authenticity and remaining true to yourself
 
Summary
 
 
7 Leading teams
 
Building rapport
 
Motivation and setting objectives – getting the best out of your team
 
Reward and recognition
 
Summary
 
 
8 The art of influence
 
Stakeholders, group dynamics and you
 
Building networks and alliances
 
Summary
 
 
 
Part 4: Building and executing your vision – from ideas to results
 
 
9 Building your vision
 
Mission, vision, ideas and strategy: making sense of the melting pot
 
How to create your vision
 
Saying what you’ve got to say
 
Summary
 
 
10   Cultivating your strategic thinking
 
From vision to strategy – the translation exercise
 
The pathway to superior strategic thinking
 
Summary
 
 
11   Boosting your execution capabilities
 
 
Better personal decision making
 
Empowerment, accountability and change: the key concepts for delivering
through others
 
Summary
 
 
 
 
Conclusion
The leadership reading list
 
Appendix 1: Examples of an individual development plan and goals and
objectives
Appendix 2: The basics of body language
 
Index