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In their bestselling work The Extraordinary
Leader, performance thought leaders John
Zenger and Joseph Folkman revealed the 16
key competencies that separate the top 10
percent of leaders from the rest. Since that
book’s publication, they and coauthor Scott
Edinger discovered, through an extensive
study conducted over four years, that leaders
who possessed the ability to inspire and motivate
outperformed all others.
The authors found that the impact of inspiring
and motivating others is consistent across
different kinds of organizations and within
different cultures. The Inspiring Leader reveals
the authors’ newest proprietary research on
how top leaders inspire teams to greatness.
It discusses the behaviors exhibited by the
most successful leaders and includes advice
on how to implement them. Drawing from
statistically significant data and objective empirical
evidence, the book shows how to:
Zenger, Folkman, and Edinger lay out the
strategies and concepts used by the world’s
greatest leaders to motivate their teams. With
The Inspiring Leader as your guide, you will
learn how to put those strategies to work in
your own business.
1. The most important leadership skill
2. The power of competency companions
3. Behaviors that clearly don’t work
4. Setting stretch goals
5. Creating vision and direction
6. Communicating powerfully
7. Encouraging innovation and risk taking
8. Developing others
9. Teamwork and collaboration
10. Fostering accountability and ownership for results
11. Championing change
12. Being a role model
13. Conclusion—How to implement these skills on a regular basis
DoctorSavage83
Posted July 13, 2009
With all the leadership books burgeoning shelves it's no wonder another leadership book seems like, well, just another book. Not so with The Inspiring Leader! The rigorous research is right on the money and the developmental applications are attainable for any leader willing to put forth the persistent effort to inspire others. The "matter of fact" data reveals what inspiring leaders actually do to combine a certain set of strengths and actions and thus "magically" inspire others to follow them. The authors combine their own strengths to create a great read that is; seamless, immediately informative, academically inclusive, interesting, and yes, in a word, INSPIRING! Get this book and give it your best shot! It may inspire you too!
Dr. S. Brett Savage
CEO/President
Next Phase Leadership
NextPhaseLeadership.com
2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.
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Posted July 8, 2009
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The Inspiring Leader is one of those rare books on Leadership that gives the reader clear and practical activities for inspiring others while grounding these activities in comprehensive and compelling research---integrating the work of several leadership gurus whose ideas have been proven time and again.
It's an engaging and inspirational book that "walks the talk" by catalyzing all of us to get beyond spreadsheets to successfully understand how and why inspiration is where the leadership leverage really lies.
Give this book to yourself and----to your boss!
2 out of 2 people found this review helpful.
Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.In every type of organization and in every culture, people want to follow leaders who motivate them to achieve difficult goals. In The Extraordinary Leader, the authors' previous, highly acclaimed book, John H. Zenger, Joseph R. Folkman and Scott K. Edinger examined the 16 core competencies that distinguish superior leaders from merely good ones. In this new work, they employ statistical data and empirical evidence to prove conclusively what people intuitively know: The ability to inspire is, by far, the most salient leadership trait. The authors discuss the strategies that great leaders employ to motivate others and explain how to use them. getAbstract recommends their book to managers, executives and others who want their organizations to accomplish great things.
Was this review helpful? Yes NoThank you for your feedback. Report this reviewThank you, this review has been flagged.As a "senior level leader" I've heard all of these water cooler dreams before... "If only my boss could understand what we are trying to do... We could (together) move this company forward to Utopia"...
This concept is not realistic; it is the vision of a "want to be" leader.
Those of us who have successfully lead companies to success understand that subordinates (and their subordinates) do have valuable input, and we need to take this input into consideration to accomplish the ultimate goals of the enterprise.
However, this is a core (rudimentary) leadership understanding.
The "water cooler (or academic) dreamers" do not understand the requirements relating to the "need to know" information regarding decisions required by true leaders whose job description primarily depends on the current and ongoing success of the enterprise.
If you are a senior level leader, please do not send your monetary vote (by purchasing this book) to the authors, there are many more relevant publications available to enhance your leadership skills.
Anonymous
Posted January 2, 2011
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Overview
In their bestselling work The Extraordinary
Leader, performance thought leaders John
Zenger and ...