52 Leadership Gems: Practical and Quick Insights for Leading Others (Stewart Leadership Series) - Hardcover

John Parker Stewart

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 099720060X ISBN 13: 9780997200607

Publisher: Conductor Publishing, 2017

Synopsis

Based upon the LEAD NOW! Leadership Development Model, created from interviews, coaching, training, research, and feedback from more than 20,000 leaders worldwide over a period of more than three decades, the Award-winning Stewart Leadership Series is a tool kit for the time starved leader. 52 Leadership Gems contains a set of tested insights that will guide all leaders as they face today's challenges. These Gems are tied into the essential 21 leadership dimensions of a successful leader. This book supports every phase of your company's leadership development, team improvement, and one-on-one coaching. Each Leadership Gem is referenced to applicable Leadership Dimensions and color coded to the applicable quadrant in the LEAD NOW! Model. It is a powerful coaching toolkit for all executives, managers, supervisors, and future leaders.

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About the Author

Over the past 35 years, John has coached and trained tens of thousands of leaders worldwide. He managed executive and leadership development for 86,000 employees at Lockheed Corporation where he designed and taught the Lockheed Executive Institutes for 13 years. He started his own consulting firm in 1980 where he continues to research, consult, teach, and coach CEOs, presidents, executives, military, government, and business leaders.

John began his undergraduate studies at the University of Colorado, finished his bachelor s degree at Brigham Young University, and earned his master s degree in Organizational Communication where he wrote his thesis at Parliament in London. He began his doctoral work and teaching at Michigan State University, and continued doctoral studies under management guru Peter Drucker in Executive Performance and Leadership at Claremont Graduate School.

He was selected National Trainer of the Year by the American Society for Training and Development for two consecutive years and a three time speaker on Orals Coaching at the National Conference of the Association of Proposal Management Professionals. In addition to training and coaching all levels of management at Kennedy Space Center over an eight year period, John has worked with organizations including: Citibank, U.S. Air Force, Chevron, Lockheed Martin, Toshiba, CSL-Hong Kong, Xerox, GM, Kaiser Permanente, Telstra-Australia, U.S. Department of Energy, Boeing, and many other government agencies and commercial firms.

John has published many articles, manuals, and workbooks and has recently published the award- winning Stewart Leadership Series. His title book, Lead Now!: A Personal Coaching Guide for Results-driven Leaders, won the Indie Excellence award in Leadership, and 52 Leadership Lessons was also nationally recognized.

He has worked or studied in all 50 states in the United States, 6 continents, and averages over 125,000 air miles each year. John builds successful common cultures in organizations, and speaks to thousands of professionals each year around the globe.

He has led several multi-million dollar change efforts for international corporations in successfully realigning their operations and manufacturing processes, and has united diverse corporate cultures during multi-billion dollar mergers and consolidations, leading to significant gains in organizational performance and integrated cultures.

Edition details

• Publisher: Conductor Publishing
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 099720060X
• ISBN 13: 9780997200607
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 233