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The Leader's Window

The Leader's Window

Mastering the Four Styles of Leadership to Build High-Performing Teams

Author: Beck, John D. W., Yeager, Neil M.


Hardcover, ISBN 978-0-891061-60-1
£28.95
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Quick Overview

Now in a newly expanded and updated edition, The Leader's Window presents an authoritative leadership system to help you give your employees what they need, when they need it, in a form in which they can use it. New and updated leader profiles and case examples illustrate the variety of successful strategies high-profile leaders use, while stories of misguided leadership show pitfalls to avoid.

Publication Date: Nov 25, 2001


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Now in a newly expanded and updated edition, The Leader's Window presents an authoritative leadership system to help you give your employees what they need, when they need it, in a form in which they can use it. New and updated leader profiles and case examples illustrate the variety of successful strategies high-profile leaders use, while stories of misguided leadership show pitfalls to avoid. With new information on managing Generation X and adapting to diverse personality types, this classic resource presents the strategies you need to make the most of individual capabilities and simultaneously achieve goals. Charts, action lists, cases for reflection, process plans, performance contracts, self-assessments and tools to crease baseline leadership measures provide the help you need to harness the potential of each worker and transform that potential into results-driven teams.

Preface

Acknowledgments

About the Authors

Introduction: Welcome to the World of Leadership

1 Windows on the World of Leadership

2 The 4 Windows of Leadership

3 Window 1: The Leader as Director

4 Window 2: The Leader as Problem Solver

5 Window 3: The Leader as Developer

6 Window 4: The Leader as Delegator

7 Your Personal Window of Leadership

8 Window Wisdom: The Name of the Game Is Leadership by Anticipation

9 Through the Working Glass: Viewing Followers Through Their Window of Potential

10 Creating Windows of Opportunity with Your People

11 The Personality Prism: Seeing the World Through Other People’s Windows

12 Creating Positive Group Dynamics: An Underused Window of Opportunity

13 The Secrets of The Leader’s Window: Making Teams Work

Epilogue

References

Index

John D. W. Beck, Ed.D. is a founding director of the Charter Oak Consulting Group based in Connecticut. Founded in 1986, this management consulting firm specializes in strengthening organizational performance through leadership, teamwork, and organizational effectiveness. Beck is the creator of The Leadership System, which has helped thousands of organizations worldwide meet challenges and address business opportunities. Neil M. Yeager, Ed.D. is a director with the Charter Oak Consulting Group. With 20 years experience as an organization development consultant, he specializes in executive leadership development through individual and team coaching. Clients include Alcoa, Bear Stearns, Compaq, and Intel. Yeager is author of several books, including Power Interviews, a national best-seller. www.cocg.com

”Reader friendly, immensely practical, well illustrated. Illuminating! The Leader’s Window takes the highly successful Situational Leadership model to a whole new level. Then it brilliantly applies leadership styles to the four-phase process of building high-performance teams. This book is a guide to the aligning and empowering roles of Principle-Centered Leadership. A great read for anyone who is trying to live the 7 Habits at work.”—Dr. Stephen R. Covey, author, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

”The Leader’s Window offers a very practical system for bringing people together and getting them to work together in ways that produce exceptional results.”—Ramani Ayer, Chairman and CEO, The Hartford Financial Services Group

”Long after the strained analogies of the latest business book have faded into undistinguished memory, this memorable tool kit will continue to be used in everyday practice by the lucky readers who have picked up this gem of a book. After a quick and easy read, you’ll keep coming back again and again.”—Joshua Boger, Ph.D., Chairman and CEO, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

”The Leader’s Window should be required reading for leaders and team members of any organization that is serious about empowering teams to make a difference. Until the L4 System is mastered, other concepts of sharing leadership are without purpose and lacking discipline. This is the very best book for influencing successful work team design and implementation.”—Jack D. Orsburn, Ph.D., President, Orsburn Team Works, Inc., and author of Self-Directed Work Teams