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From his several decades as an executive, and then as mentor and coach to other executives, the author has crafted a unique and comprehensive guide to what's required of the leader of any effort to pursue great achievement, whether individually or organizationally. The key for the leader (of oneself or others) is how the leader thinks. From that comes who the leader is as a person. And from that comes all of the leader's ways feeling and of doing. This guidebook addresses those indispensable building blocks in an engaging and provocative way. It progresses from how to think about what you will need to think about to the kinds of tools needed to put that nonconventional, sometimes even counter-intuitive, thinking into practice. Recognizing that you cannot learn leadership from a book, this book of lessons for leaders takes the position similar to that required for learning how to fly. First you learn the basics and the names for things. Then you learn how to make yourself, what you have learned, and the tools you have to work with into a seamless whole. Then you are ready to "solo." But, ultimately, what you have to learn about leadership has to be learned by doing it. This is ancient wisdom for achieving anything worthwhile by your own efforts. The author has combined his rich experiences with his equally long years of research into this most fascinating, most complex of all human achievements. Bringing the best that has ever been said about leadership and high performance into the realities of exercising that wisdom in the present world is what this one-of-a-kind guidebook offers the would-be leader. Real achievement is impossible without real leadership. This book describes in detail how to put the two together.
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About the Author:
Dr. Thayer s career as a pioneer and influential innovator in the design and development of high-performance organizations -- and in the kind of leadership required of the top executive to achieve that -- has spanned more than four decades. It has often been observed that he has rattled more CEOs cages than anyone else. Having come from a high-level executive position in industry himself, coupled with his experience as a jazz performer and arranger and his university degrees in the humanities, engineering, and psychology, Dr. Thayer has developed a revolutionary and practical framework for understanding what it takes to lead the way to great organizations, expressively in the "how" as much as the "why". He and his CEO partners often have to invent the pushes and pulls required to achieve the kind of excellence that others can t figure out how to copy. Early on in his career, he served as consultant to several of the Fortune 500 and other notable companies, such as IBM, AT&T, Westinghouse, Boeing, Curtiss-Wright, Pratt-Whitney, McDonnell Douglas, Phillips, Shell, General Motors, Sealtest Foods, and Hallmark. He has consulted with the U.S. Air Force, the Postal Service, numerous banks and other institutions, universities around the globe, and West Point. He was the consultant behind the now well-known success story at Johnsonville Foods -- which Tom Peters referred to as "the most remarkable example of organizational transformation" he had ever seen. He has taken his extraordinary problem-solving skills to the Scandinavian countries (esp. Finland and Norway), to Australia, to the UK and most European countries, and to Canada, Mexico, and China. Today, he limits his work to small to medium-sized organizations where, as he says, the impact is more immediate and measurable. His other "career," as a distinguished university professor in major universities both here and abroad (e.g., the Harvard Graduate School of Business, The University of Amsterdam, Queensland U
Review:
"Thayer's book is refreshing, authentic, and has a penetrating integrity. Don t take it lightly." --Max De Pree, Chairman Emeritus, Herman Miller, Inc., Author of Leadership is an Art
"If you can t learn how by applying the leadership lessons here, you probably can t learn how. It s superb!" --James O'Toole, Author of Leading Change
"If you truly want to reinvent yourself ... and have a deep passion to change and improve, read Lee Thayer s book." --Larry Bull, Executive Vice President, Bergstrom, Inc.
"If you can t learn how by applying the leadership lessons here, you probably can t learn how. It s superb!" --James O'Toole, Author of Leading Change
"If you truly want to reinvent yourself ... and have a deep passion to change and improve, read Lee Thayer s book." --Larry Bull, Executive Vice President, Bergstrom, Inc.
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- PublisherXlibris Corp
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 1413430007
- ISBN 13 9781413430004
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages318
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