Why Don't They Follow Me?: 12 Easy Lessons To Boost Your Leadership Skills (Volume 1) - Softcover

Pacelli, Lonnie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1933750189 ISBN 13: 9781933750187

Publisher: Pacelli Publishing, 2009

Synopsis

Communication - Candor = Storyteller...
Action - Integrity = Distrust...
Leadership - Inspiration = Administration...
Get the 12 simple leadership lessons the best leaders master.

Why Don't They Follow Me? is the defining leadership book for leaders who need quick wisdom on what it takes to be a great leader. Whether you're a manager, pastor, nurse administrator, PTA president, non-profit leader, or someone who wants to better their leadership skills, Why Don't They Follow Me? gives you the essential leadership lessons to help you be a better leader fast!

Why Don't They Follow Me? is great for New Leaders Nurse Administrators Project Managers Program Managers Pastors New Supervisors New Managers Healthcare Administrators Sales Managers

About this title

About the Author

Lonnie has over 35 years' experience including 11 at Accenture, 9 at Microsoft, and 15 as an independent strategy consultant and author. Independent director at Northwest Center, a $60m disability inclusion non-profit that operates 7 businesses which fund services provided to people with disabilities.

He has held key positions at Microsoft including managing $6b in spend as director of corporate procurement and leading the worldwide corporate planning and budgeting group. As strategy consultant at Microsoft led business-critical initiatives including $30m information technology program to transform Nokia phone manufacturing factory to Xbox and Surface repair facility. Created and drove cultural change through a strategic project assurance review process used on over 100 projects in one of Microsoft's internal IT organizations.

He is a popular leadership, project management and autism awareness author and keynote speaker. 

From the Back Cover

Most leadership titles you'll find in the business section and are meant to appeal to the busy executive. But what about the stay-at-home parent who has just been elected president of the PTA and has never lead anything in his or her life? Or maybe the newly-promoted first-line manager who has instantly inherited a team of leadership-starved employees? These folks need quick, practical leadership advice that makes sense and can be put into play right away. This is where Why Don't They Follow Me? comes in.

In Why Don't They Follow Me? you'll get 12 vital leadership principles which form the basis of best-in-class leaders regardless of who you are leading or what you are trying to accomplish. Maybe you lead a team in your daily job; or maybe you own a small business; or maybe you're a leader of a large non-profit organization. Quite frankly, it just doesn't matter when it comes to these principles; if you want to boost your leadership skills, Why Don't They Follow Me? is the book for you.

From the Inside Flap

Why Don't They Follow Me? is a great book for book groups to read and discuss. To facilitate discussion, here are 15 questions you can use to enrich your group's discussion:

1. How long do you think it takes a leader to develop credibility with his or her team?
2. Even with credible leaders, humor could get annoying. When do you think humor becomes annoying even with credible leaders?
3. What in your mind is the difference between confidence and arrogance in a leader?
4. Action-oriented leaders can be very effective. When do you think action-oriented leaders become ineffective?
5. Is being theoretical always bad? Why or why not?
6. Have you ever been frustrated by a lazy leader? How so?
7. Where have you seen a leader who is administratively strong be ineffective as a leader?
8. What in your mind is the difference between conviction and obstinance?
9. Taking risks as a leader is important. What in your mind is the difference between a calculated risk and a foolish risk?
10. Are great thought leaders (think Bill Gates or Steve Jobs) predisposed to be great people leaders? Have you seen a great thought leader crash and burn as a people leader?
11. Have you ever worked with a leader who is/was a great communicator? What made him/her great?
12. How would you advise a leader whose focus on the bottom line trumps empathy?
13. Have you ever worked with a leader who manages up to his/her boss better than he or she manages down to his/her organization? How did you feel about it?
14. Based on bosses you've had, what would you say are positive leadership attributes?
15. Based on bosses you've had, what would you say are negative leadership attributes?

Edition details

• Publisher: Pacelli Publishing
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1933750189
• ISBN 13: 9781933750187
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 102