Heroic Leadership - Hardcover

Cohen, William A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0470405015 ISBN 13: 9780470405017

Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 2010

Synopsis

Proven leadership strategies used by combat and business leaders to accomplish impossible goals

Heroic Leadership examines military leadership principles as they apply to business and life. Leadership expert and retired general William Cohen describes the eight universal laws of leadership and explains why heroic leadership has worked so successfully and ethically for thousands of years despite severe conditions of risk, uncertainty and hardship. He also shows how to implement Heroic Leadership to attract fellowship, use influence tactics, develop self-confidence, build, coach, and motivate a team, take charge in crisis situations, and take action.

• Includes real-world examples from business as well, as battle, that follow the eight universal laws
• Contains proven strategies and techniques to apply the universal laws and multiply the productivity of any group or organization
• Suggests little-known, but highly effective methods for building teamwork and esprit de corps
• Based on the classic, bestselling books on leadership The New Art of the Leader and the Stuff of Heroes
• With a timeless approach to leadership, Heroic Leadership offers innovative ideas for motivating people and helping them to achieve new heights of personal and group performance

About this title

From the Back Cover

Heroic Leadership

PETER F. DRUCKER, the "father of modern management," promoted the concept of Heroic Leadership throughout his long career, saying, "The Army trains and develops more leaders than do all other institutions together—and with a lower casualty rate." In Heroic Leadership, leadership expert and retired general William Cohen, a former student and personal friend of Drucker, reveals what Heroic Leadership entails—leading a group with absolute integrity while raising individual performance to a personal best, and building a team spirit of sacrifice for the common good. It requires tough standards, but as Cohen shows you, achieving those standards is not impossible.

Heroic Leadership examines military leadership principles as they apply to business and life, and draws on Cohen's research with more than two hundred leaders from the military, who after leaving the military went on to very successful careers in civilian life. In this book, Cohen maps out the eight universal laws of leadership, and explains why Heroic Leadership has worked so successfully and ethically for thousands of years despite severe conditions of risk, uncertainty, and hardship. He also shows how to implement Heroic Leadership to attract fellowship; use influence tactics; develop self-confidence; build, coach, and motivate a team; take charge in crisis situations; and take action.

Throughout the book you will find:

• Real-world examples from business as well as battle, chosen to give you the knowledge and confidence to lead in any situation you may confront
• Proven strategies and results-oriented techniques to apply the principles of Heroic Leadership and multiply the productivity of any group or organization
• New ideas for motivating people and helping them achieve new heights of personal and group performance
• Little-known but highly effective methods for building teamwork and esprit de corps
• Methods for developing yourself as a leader and reaching your full potential

Based on Cohen's early best-selling books on leadership, now out of print—The Art of the Leader, The Stuff of Heroes, and The New Art of the Leader—Heroic Leadership is a timeless guide on what it takes to be an authentic, high-performing leader. This book will challenge you to apply the principles of Heroic Leadership, and in turn enable your organization to dare the impossible and achieve the extraordinary.

About the Author

William Cohen, Ph.D., is president of the Institute of Leader Arts and the first graduate of Peter 's executive Ph.D. program. About him Drucker wrote: "My colleagues on the faculty and I learned at least as much as we could teach him." Cohen served as major general in the U.S. Air Force Reserve, has held executive positions in several companies, and was president of two universities. He is the author of many management books, including The Art of the Leader, A Class With Drucker, and Drucker on Leadership.

For more information, please visit: www.stuffofheroes.com

About this edition

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0470405015
• ISBN 13: 9780470405017
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288