My version of the book, 2007, Hardcover, FT Prentice-Hall, ISBN 978-0131-470255
Firnando Chau Review
The contents of this book are in the following order:-
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter One: Leaders and Change
Chapter Two: Personality and Context
Chapter Three: Preference and Disposition
Chapter Four: Beliefs and Points of View
Chapter Five: Perceptions and Persona
Chapter Six: Behaviors and Situations
Chapter Seven: Vision and Learning
Bibliography
Index
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Amazon.com Review
About the Book
The first step towards becoming an outstanding leader: know yourself. This book will help you understand yourself as a leader... so you can change, grow, and become powerfully more effective. Authored by four world-renowned leadership experts, including the legendary Ken Blanchard, it draws on an extraordinary seven-year research study on how successful corporate executives exert influence. The authors begin by presenting self-change as your must urgent leadership challenge, and showing how your values and personality govern your actions, even when you don't realize it. You'll examine the inner self you're currently bringing to your "moments of influence," discovering how your disposition, values, beliefs, and persona are contributing right now to your success -- or failure. Throughout, the authors present proven, values-based approaches to leadership in both group settings and one-to-one contexts.
From the Back Cover
Discover the leader inside you!
* Become the leader you've always wanted to be
* Understand how you behave at your key 'moments of influence'
* Reinvent your approach for better results -- and happier people
* Build more effective teams and organizations, without compromising your values
* Co-authored by Ken Blanchard, co-author of The One Minute Manager
If you lead... if you intend to lead... if you work with leaders... you need this book.
* You need it to discover why...
...self-change is your most urgent leadership challenge
...your values, beliefs, and personality are driving your success -- or your failure -- even when you don't realize it
* You need it to discover how to...
... lead brilliantly, in ways that reflect your own values and personality
... connect in both group settings and one-to-one contexts
... liberate personal traits and energies you never knew you had
... rekindle your team's spirit -- and build stronger, more effective, more joyful organizations.
* Liberate the outstanding leader inside you -- with The Leader Within.
