Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-185) and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- Part 1. Significance. Chapter 1. Leaders serve and sacrifice -- Chapter 2. The best leaders are teachers -- Chapter 3. We all need loving critics -- Chapter 4. You are the most important leader in your organization -- Chapter 5. No one likes to be an assumption -- Part 2. Relationships. Chapter 6. Leadership is personal -- Chapter 7. Leaders should want to be liked -- Chapter 8. When you don't see eye to eye, seek to understand -- Chapter 9. You can't take trust for granted -- Chapter 10. Let your people go -- Part 3. Aspirations. Chapter 11. Lead from the inside out -- Chapter 12. Forward-looking is a leadership -- Chapter 13. It's not just the leader's vision -- Chapter 14. Liberate the leader in everyone -- Chapter 15. Leaders are followers, too! -- Part 4. Courage. Chapter 16. There's courage in all of us -- Chapter 17. You can't plan to be courageous, but you can choose it -- Chapter 18. It takes courage to make a life -- Chapter 19. The courage to be human -- Chapter 20. Failure is always an option -- Chapter 21. No money-back guarantee -- Afterword : the legacy you leave is the life you lead -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- About the authors -- Index.
Summary:
In this book, the authors explore the question of leadership and legacy. They examine the critical questions all leaders must ask themselves in order to leave a lasting impact. These essays are grouped into four categories: significance, relationships, aspirations, and courage. In each essay the authors consider a thorny and often ambiguous issue with which today's leaders must grapple issues -- such as how leaders serve and sacrifice, why leaders need loving critics, why leaders should want to be liked, why leaders can't take trust for granted, why it's not just the leader's vision, why failure is always an option, why it takes courage to "make a life," how to liberate the leader in everyone, and ultimately, how the legacy you leave is the life you lead.
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