Develop your Leadership Skills is John Adair's most accessible title on leadership. Full of exercises and checklists, it can help to boost confidence levels and guide and inspire anyone on their journey to becoming a leader of excellence.Acknowledged as a world expert, John Adair offers stimulating insights into recognizing and developing individual leadership qualities, aquiring personal authority, and most importantly, mastering core leadership functions such as planning, communicating and motivating.Suitable for anyone who wishes to improve or develop their leadership skills, this guide distils the essence of John Adair's teaching and provides a framework for becoming an effective leader.
This pioneering work has transformed the understanding of how leadership works and how executives can become business leaders. It has been translated into 14 languages.
John Adair has transformed the understanding of how leadership works with his pioneering book Not Bosses But Leaders. Now he returns with a new title that explores in an authoritative way exactly what we know about leadership and leadership development.There is a revolution underway. We are moving - rapidly in some areas, slower in others - from management to business leadership. As the market for good leaders who can achieve results increases so-called leadership development programmes have proliferated. Many of these are old management development programmes renamed, and others are full of confusing theories and unproductive approaches. This ground-breaking new book aims to set the record straight. It looks at the body of knowledge on leadership, identifies the seven key principles of leadership development, and answers key questions on how to select, train and educate leaders at the level of team, operational and strategic leadership.A vital addition to the debate on leadership from a true expert, this book also considers the global challenge and long term issues involved.
Leadership and Motivation' presents a fifty-fifty rule which states that half of a person's motivation comes from within and half is due to their environment.
Innovate or stagnate: that is the stark challenge facing all businesses today. Creating an innovative climate is essential for positive organizational change and this throws up a need for leaders who can bring about this change.Adair looks at the links between leadership, creativity and change. This book will help leaders of all types to meet the challenge of innovation, and achieve profitable growth through team creativity.Using case studies of Google, Honda and 3M, Adair covers topics such as the characteristics of innovators, organizing for team creativity, the expectations of creative people, creative leadership, managing the criticism of ideas and overcoming resistance to change.Leadership for Innovation will help leaders of all types to meet the challenge of innovation, and achieve profitable growth through team creativity.
John Adair describes practical ways to become a more creative thinker. Each succinct chapter is built around one core idea, which is then developed and illustrated.
John Adair looks at the nature of leadership and how to encourage and inspire others to achieve results. He provides valuable advice in a clear and readable format to help any aspiring leader realise their potential and feel confident about themselves and their future.
An expert on management thinking, Adair helps managers and leaders of all levels ensure that the best decisions are taken, that problems are solved in the optimum way, and that creative ideas and innovations are encouraged in order to help businesses succeed. 144.
An explanation of the key principles for developing thinking skills and applying them creatively and productively to every challenge. It examines: understanding the way your mind works; adopting a structured approach to reach the best decision; assessing risk and generating successful options for action; using brainstorming and lateral thinking to increase your creativity; and creating a personal strategy to become a more effective practical thinker.
John Adair, Britain's foremost expert on leadership training, shows how every manager can learn to lead. He draws upon numerous examples of leadership in action - commercial, military and historical - to pinpoint the essential requirements.
This text offers insights on: recognising and developing leadership qualities; acquiring personal authority to give postive direction and the flexibility to embrace change; acting on the key interacting needs to achieve a task, build a team and develop its members; and transforming core leadership functions like planning, communicating and motivating into skills that can be learned.
This time-management book is based on the principles of leadership guru John Adair. Expert and practical advice aid in managing time more effectively. Strategies discussed include developing a personal sense of time, identifying long-term goals, and linking those goals to daily action planning. Other topics include organizing office work, managing meetings, delegating effectively, and making use of committed time. This guide provides the tools, techniques, and framework for continuing personal development that will prove valuable for appraisals, interviews, planning career progression, or planning a change of direction.
The concept of leadership is relevant not only to organizational life but to all of us: everyong has to lead their own life. This authoritative guide answers questions such as: what is strategic leadership? and how can I develop my abilities as a leader?
This book describes in detail how to recruit the right people, recognizing the key characteristics of innovators and how to organize and use them to achieve the best effect.
This guide illuminates the principles and philosophy of leaders from Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great, Abraham Lincoln, Elizabeth I and Napoleon to Churchill, Montgomery, Charles de Gaulle and Margaret Thatcher, and shows the reader how they may apply them in their own careers. Chapters cover all aspects of leadership, including knowledge, skills, example, charisma, humility, effective decision-making and communication. There are also sections on Nelson, women, and leadership in times of change and for the future. Each chapter has a summary of the main points.
The Leadership of Muhammad is a very personal study of the life-story and leadership skills of the Prophet. John Adair served with a Bedouin regiment in the Arab Legion and this story is full of fascinating detail of desert life and Bedouin beliefs. A business book that crosses boundaries it highlights the key leadership skills displayed by Muhammad and allows you to share in his wisdom. John Adair weaves the story of Muhammad's life together with aspects of Bedouin culture and ancient proverbs to provide key points for leaders and aspiring leaders. He discusses tribal leadership and essential attributes such as integrity, moral authority and humility. Learning and leadership go hand in hand. You are not born a leader, but you can become one and it is never too late to learn. John Adair's study or Muhammad and the tribal tradition of leadership is an essential addtion to the leadership debate.
In this guide, John Adair focuses on the time available for daily use using a wide range of examples and case studies, and offers advice on making the most of every hour.
In this practical guide to motivation the author presents a set of strategies for motivating high performance teams and individuals. Case studies and exercises are included to help readers relate the principles and put them to productive use.
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