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PublisherKogan Page, The Limited

ISBN-101789666961

ISBN-139781789666960

eBay Product ID (ePID)28038675023

Product Key Features

Number of Pages288 Pages

Publication NameNine Types of Leader : How the Leaders of Tomorrow Can Learn from the Leaders of Today

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2021

SubjectLeadership, Entrepreneurship, Mentoring & Coaching, Economics / General

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaBusiness & Economics

AuthorJames Ashton

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight12.5 Oz

Item Length7.8 in

Item Width5.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN2020-044132

ReviewsEvery successful business is the result of successful leadership. However, there are wildly different types of leaders, with different strategies. Different markets, organizational cultures and industries require different leadership. And your own abilities and style determine your own leadership. James Ashton has produced a fresh, thoughtful, modern look at business leadership that will provide key insight to leaderships everywhere., The world needs more great leaders, and James's thoughtful taxonomy points the way towards better leadership. Career-minded executives should pick it up., James Ashton has managed to produce a book about leadership that stands out in a busy field and cuts through management waffle. Pin-sharp analysis of the different types of leader, insightful commentary about the many leadership personalities he has interviewed over the years and vivid storytelling. As you read, you can't help but think about the type of leader you are yourself (and secretly hope it's the Human one). A great read - thoroughly enjoyed it., James Ashton has a knack for unpicking how leaders' motivations and methods develop over many years. This book neatly compiles a range of different approaches and suggests where leadership goes next as modern corporations and stakeholder demands evolve., A very readable book about the types of modern business leadership, sprinkled with great personal anecdotes and inside stories. If you only buy one book on leadership this year, make it this one!, From interviews with a who's who of global business glitterati, James Ashton's new breakdown of nine types of leader is purposeful, authentic and delivered with his trademark readability., Business leaders are peculiar and brave. Few aspire to it; even fewer succeed. James Ashton has shrewdly tabulated his own butterfly collection of this exotic breed. Long on narrative, short on jargon and very entertaining., This is a very well researched and uniquely observed encyclopaedia of leaders and leadership. A must-read for all current and aspiring leaders., Packed full of fascinating real-world examples of the leaders that James Ashton has spent years researching and interviewing, this entertaining book shows how the different personality traits of leadership can play out in the human beings running some of our biggest businesses., I've always said life is 50 per cent luck and 50 per cent what you do with it. James Ashton's The Nine Types of Leader captures the luck and actions of CEOs around the world, and then turns it into an opportunity for you to look at what you've been given and use it to shape the leader you will become.

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal658.4092

Table Of Content* Section - 00: Introduction; * Section - 01: Alphas; * Section - 02: Fixers; * Section - 03: Sellers; * Section - 04: Founders; * Section - 05: Scions; * Section - 06: Lovers; * Section - 07: Campaigners; * Section - 08: Diplomats; * Section - 09: Humans;

SynopsisThrough candid interviews and encounters with some of the world's most successful business people, find out what makes great leaders tick, learn what it takes to be credible and read about the things that they'd do differently if they had to do it all again., SHORTLISTED: Business Book Awards 2022 - Leadership Find out what makes great leaders tick, learn what it takes to be credible and read about the things that they'd do differently if they had to do it all again. The Nine Types of Leader introduces some obvious and some not so obvious types of leader through stories, anecdotes and insight garnered from hundreds of encounters with world-class leaders. Featuring interviews with industry titans including Jean-Francois Decaux of JC Decaux, Michael Rapino of Live Nation, Zhang Ruimin of Haier, Gavin Patterson of Salesforce and Isabelle Kocher of Engie, it explores how the leaders of tomorrow will improve their game by borrowing from the very best of the nine types of leader that exist today. Renowned journalist, James Ashton assesses the strengths and weaknesses of each leadership type, highlighting where and when they are best deployed, whilst helping you identify who you are and how you can improve performance. As the world seeks to recover from drastic disruption and uncertainty and the most acute test of leadership in living memory, it projects how future leaders can learn from what has gone before.

LC Classification NumberHD57.7