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Uncommon Leadership
Read more about our new book – Uncommon Leadership: how to gain competitive advantage by thinking differently.
The overall aim of this book is to explore the things that good leaders have in common, and to suggest ways to make these more common in organizations. The key to this is encouraging leaders to think differently but this alone is not enough. Business leaders need to develop competitive advantage, by challenging conventional wisdom, by asking different questions, and by connecting the “new” common sense to opportunities.
We hope Uncommon Leadership can help you to do all of these things. It was written to stimulate your thinking, sharpen your practice, and act as a springboard for better leadership and better organizations. It’s packed with anecdotes, quotes, stories and challenging research all brought to life with an emphasis on the uncommon insights which can help leaders to think and act differently.
So we’d like to introduce the book, with a special thanks to all those managers and leaders who have shared their experiences, helped us hone our ideas, and spurred us on to write the book by their encouraging feedback. We wrote this with you in mind!
For more information, go to our dedicated book website: www.uncommonleadership.co.uk. Here you’ll find more information on the contents, a free chapter to download, and a range of tools to help you make the most of the book.
Book details
- Published by Kogan Page Ltd (London, Philadephia, New Delhi)
- ISBN: 9780749471040
- Published date: 3 May 2014
- Paperback
- 256 Pages
- Dimensions: 234x156mm
- Language: English
‘Uncommon Leadership’ is a tour de force of the experiences and lessons learned from seasoned, successful leaders all integrated into a fascinating intellectual package.
Professor Dennis J. Garritan, Academic Dean at the Mountbatten Institute and Adjunct Professor, Harvard University.
Table of contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Introduction: The uncommon sense of leadership
- Chapter 1: Leading with vision – Seeing the sense before it becomes common
- Chapter 2: Leading with action – Shaping the organization by turning sense into common sense
- Chapter 3: Leading with purpose – Showing the way by doing the common things uncommonly well
- Chapter 4: Leading with service – Serving colleagues and customers through common touch leadership
- Chapter 5: Leading with others – Sharing leadership by making it more common
- Conclusion: Building competitive advantage through uncommon leadership roles
Leadership E-guides
On this page you’ll find details of our great value leadership e-guides.
Of course, the articles and other material are all resources in themselves. Whether you are an experienced leader, a novice, an educator or a student of leadership, there is plenty here to get you thinking.
But if you want more, here you’ll find links to some of our other leadership resources. We have written several e-guides on various aspects of leadership. Each contains ideas, tips and a range of tools to help you both understand leadership, and put it into practice. They have been selling to satisfied customers, in more than 30 countries, all around the world.
So follow the links to our companion site (the Happy Manager) to find out more about our e-guide leadership resources. As you’ll see, the guides are great value and come with an unconditional money back guarantee.
Our leadership e-guides
Defining Leadership
Leadership can never be separated from its context. You are a leader in a particular organisation, within a wider business environment and economic setting.
The message of this guide is to encourage you to develop your own approach to leadership, building on the wisdom of others but based on your own strengths.
Defining leadership is about making critical, positive differences, to the people and the organisations in which you lead. It’s leading people effectively, regardless of any contextual difficulties within which they and you are operating.
Content: 31 page guide with 5 tools.
Format: Downloadable pdf for instant use.
Leadership Essentials
Search Amazon.com for “leadership” books and you’ll find over 40,000 titles from which to choose.
It seems everyone has a view on leadership but how is it possible to learn about leadership, and how do you learn how to be a better leader?
This guide is the place to start. It’s packed with:
Easy-to-read insights into the essentials of leadership.
Easy-to-use tools to help you be a better leader.
Content: 31 pages with 7 tools.
Format: Downloadable pdf for instant use.
Leading Insights
In this guide we have brought together some uncommon insights into leadership. These will help you to continually define what leadership means for you, for the organisation and people you work with.
Theories can provide useful frameworks for our thinking, but they can also limit us. Insights which provoke us to think differently about leadership should never be overlooked.
This guide offers a complementary approach to other methods for understanding leadership.
Content: 30 pages with 22 great leadership insights.
Format: Downloadable pdf for instant use.
Leading with style and focus
What makes a good leader? Style and focus!
Your leadership style will determine how you engage with people, providing motivation and commitment. Your leadership focus will help ensure you apply the right leadership style for the right situation.
Leading with both style and focus are critical for effective leadership. Find out how to lead teams through the different stages of their development – with the best style and focus.
Content: 22 page guide with 5 tools
Format: Downloadable pdf with in-text, hyper-links for easy navigation.
Great value e-guides – or your money back!
We believe that the quality of our resources, and the messages they contain, can make a critical difference in supporting managers and leaders at all levels.
This means more than just improving skills. It means bringing together ideas that stretch, challenge and stimulate. Ideas that provide a springboard to new practices and insights, ideas that lead to positive impact.
We are committed to helping managers, leader and organisations make that positive impact. And we are happy to stand by the quality of our products and services.
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