52 Leadership Lessons: Timeless Stories for the Modern Leader (Stewart Leadership Series) - Hardcover

John Parker Stewart

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0997200618 ISBN 13: 9780997200614

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 Lessons is a collection of entertaining and intriguing stories from nature, history, and business that inspire and drive critical and essential leadership principles for today's current and future leaders. Each story is directly tied into the 21 essential leadership dimensions of successful leadership. This book tells the story of each Lesson followed by the leadership application. The Lessons are labeled by the relevant Leadership Dimensions with which they are associated, and illustrate how to develop each dimension specifically. It is a powerful and motivational coaching toolkit for all executives, managers, supervisors, and future leaders.

These intriguing stories TEACH, INSPIRE, ENTERTAIN, and TRANSFORM as they illustrate essential leadership skills. These simple, powerful 52 Lessons will help you face your daily leadership challenges enabling you to take your organization to new levels of success to meet the demands of today's challenges!

Stories illustrate critical leadership needs... Timeless leadership principles are taught through engaging stories giving the lessons depth and easy application aimed at your successful leadership development.

A quick and easy-to-use RESULTS-BASED handbook for today's leadership challenges.

+ How do prescribed burns in the world's forests relate to today's leaders who desperately need STRATEGIC PLANNING?

+ How did a spider trapped in the space shuttle teach skills essential for today's leaders faced with MANAGING CHANGE?

+ How do baboons and impalas teach today's leaders successful TEAMWORK?

+ How did the discovery of penicillin apply to the vital skills necessary for results-driven INNOVATION today?

These captivating stories are linked to the LEAD NOW! Leadership Development Model and its 21 essential Leadership Dimensions - all described inside. You can easily add the 52 Lessons to your own tool kit of critical skills for YOUR future success.

About this title

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.

Review

With 52 Leadership Lessons, John Parker Stewart delivers powerful, impactful insights into the mysteries of leadership and all its complex dimensions. John has the uncanny skill to reveal what few are even able to articulate about leadership. His stories and analogies are simply unforgettable. This book contains a wealth of valuable truths. Anyone reading it will quickly understand the brilliance and practicality of John's teachings.
Tom Levitt, former Senior Executive, Leadership and Organization Development, Lockheed, Toshiba, Unocal, and NationsBank

Parents around the world use stories to teach their children how to be better people. As a world-class executive coach, John Parker Stewart uses the power of 52 great stories of nature, history, and business to portray to us a new model that forms the pillars of leadership creating purpose, delivering excellence, developing self and others, and leading change. 52 Leadership Lessons is a stimulating and entertaining handbook for those who are in search of excellence in their personal and business lives.
Irene Leung, Chief Executive Officer, Senior Citizen Home Safety Association, Hong Kong

John Parker Stewart pulls from over three decades of experience leading leaders in some of the world's most effective companies. The wonderful feature of 52 Leadership Lessons is that it's a book that you CAN put down . . . and then pick it up again, and again, and again! It illuminates the subject by creating mental images that are each a little standalone epiphany on leadership. They are assimilated quickly, understood at a visceral level, and retained. Each story is preceded by a list of related leadership topics, and followed immediately by a brief set of considerations for its application. Busy execs will find this book to be a treasure.
James C. Adamson, U.S. Army Colonel, former NASA space shuttle astronaut, former Chief Operations Officer, United Space Alliance, former President, Lockheed Engineering and Sciences, former President, Honeywell TSI --Industry Experts

John Parker Stewart is a master at helping his clients discover their inner leaders through humor and analogy. His 52 Leadership Lessons resonate with all of us and keep teaching long after they're told.
Beth Britt, retired Vice President, Change Management and Communications, Duke Energy

52 Leadership Lessons is a must-read for all managers who wish to continuously improve their management skills. It is an extremely compelling and timely book on leadership. John Parker Stewart has successfully condensed over 30 years of executive training and coaching to provide valuable insight. Through stories that illustrate the various characteristics of effective leadership and execution of team dynamics, he provides practical direction necessary to succeed in today s competitive marketplace. I highly recommend this book to anyone who is interested in improving team leadership.
Brad Whitworth, Health and Safety Process Manager, United Parcel Service

I have been using the ideas and stories from John's teachings within product development teams for over 25 years. I also leaned heavily on these stories and insights while earning my MBA in Technology Management. John's insight into the basics of team management and human psychology are beautifully represented in easy-to-understand, and more importantly, easy-to-incorporate lessons. It is wonderful to finally have a book that puts some of John's powerful and entertaining stories into one volume. I highly recommend 52 Leadership Lessons to anyone who is leading any kind of team: work, sports, youth groups, volunteer groups, and even families.
Brian K. Hovik, Certified Metalworking Fluid Management Specialist and Senior Research and Development Engineer, Boeing --Industry Experts

Some say teaching is best done through the telling of stories. That certainly applies to how one learns the essence of leadership. In his 52 Leadership Lessons, John Parker Stewart has captured the best of the stories he has shared with audiences around the world. As I read them in this book, I find I enjoy and learn from them as much as I did when John first told them to me in person when he taught me and coached me. They never get old and never lose their value or meaning.
Kenneth S. Reightler, Jr., former astronaut and Space Shuttle pilot, former President, Lockheed Martin Space Operations --Industry Experts

Edition details

• Publisher: Conductor Publishing
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0997200618
• ISBN 13: 9780997200614
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 228