They Made You The Boss, Now What? A Practical Guide For New Leaders - Softcover

Duncan, Les

 
9781413731828: They Made You The Boss, Now What? A Practical Guide For New Leaders

Synopsis

Congratulations! You have been promoted and you are about to become a leader! But you have no leadership experience and no formal leadership training. What should you do? How do you behave? If you are lucky, you worked for a great leader along the way and learned from them. You may have also learned what not to do from a poor leader. But most likely you will develop your leadership skills the old-fashioned way by trial and error. This book can help. You will learn how great leaders hire the very best people then remove obstacles and get out of their way so they can do the excellent job they were hired to do. You will learn how the very best leaders rely on positive not negative reinforcement. And you will learn how the best leaders are egalitarian. All in all, forty leadership principles are outlined in short, easy-to-read chapters forty ways to help you become a great leader.

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