John Hamm

Unusually Excellent (eBook, PDF)

The Necessary Nine Skills Required for the Practice of Great Leadership

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Master the fundamentals of leadership-at every stage in your career Often, when leaders experience trouble, they look to blame an outside source or expect a small tweak to right their ship. But many times they've actually lost their grip on the very basic foundation of leadership. The business environment may change, but no management trend can displace the core laws, proven over centuries, of excellent leadership. Unusually Excellent is an essential resource for leaders that brings these fundamentals together in a new and comprehensive way. This book will help leaders at any level keep their focus on the bedrock principles that will make them extraordinary.. * Thoroughly practical, day-to-day primer for achieving and maintaining their highest level of leadership, for today and for a lifetime * The author's Harvard Business Review articles are among the most highly read in the magazine's history * Written for all leaders who need to develop and renew their leadership skills Using a sports analogy, the author breaks the work of leaders into three parts: pregame: a matter of character; game day: a matter of competence; and postgame: a matter of consequence.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780470948941
• Artikelnr.: 37300729

Autorenporträt

JOHN HAMM IS ONE OF THE TOP LEADERSHIP experts in Silicon Valley. He was named one of the country's top 100 venture capitalists in 2009 by AlwaysON and has led investments in many successful high-growth companies as a partner at several Bay Area VC firms. Hamm has also been a CEO, a board member at over thirty companies, and a CEO advisor and executive coach to senior leaders at companies such as Documentum, Cisco, Hewlett-Packard, TaylorMade-adidas Golf and McAfee. John teaches leadership at the Leavy School of Business at Santa Clara University.

Inhaltsangabe

FOREWORD BY GEOFFREY MOORE. INTRODUCTION. PART ONE: CREDIBILITY: EARNING
THE RIGHT TO LEAD THROUGH CHARACTER. CHAPTER ONE: Being Authentic: The
Courage to Be Yourself. CHAPTER TWO: Being Trustworthy: The Consistency of
Integrity. CHAPTER THREE: Being Compelling: The Commitment to Winning. PART
TWO: COMPETENCE: LEADING ON THE FIELD WITH SKILL. CHAPTER FOUR: Leading
People: Talent to Teams. CHAPTER FIVE: Leading Strategy: Ideas to Plans.
CHAPTER SIX: Leading Execution: Action to Results. PART THREE: CONSEQUENCE:
CREATING A CULTURE, LEAVING A LEGACY OF VALUES. CHAPTER SEVEN: A Leader's
Communication: Open, Honest Dialogue. CHAPTER EIGHT: A Leader's Decision
Making: Values-Based Choices. CHAPTER NINE: A Leader's Impact: The Transfer
of Influence from Leader to Follower. AFTERWORD. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS. ABOUT THE
AUTHOR. INDEX.