Extraordinary leadership

Thoughtful and seasoned by Peter's experience as an international consultant, these pages can be read with profit by all managers, and I commend this book to them.'
JOHN ADAIR, Leadership expert and author

Leadership is about converting vision into reality via strategic thinking and coordinated action. It is about defining and clarifying a vision and inspiring others not only to ‘sign up' to the vision, but to commit themselves enthusiastically to sharing responsibility for the process of implementing it.

Extraordinary Leadership provides a unique synthesis of the very best thinking about how to manage both performance and uncertainty, and also a practical summary of the models that constitute best practice – both for business and for the public sector. The title includes:

• a methodology for approaching the process of strategic planning through focussed systems of thinking and converting this into strategic action;
• an understanding of the personal characteristics, personality traits and lifelong learning habits which define and strengthen extraordinary leadership;
• an opportunity to reflect on one's own strengths and areas for improvement;
• models for converting vision into actions and measurable results, with discreet stages and helpful checklists;
• a holistic approach to implementing performance improvement;
• a guidebook, ‘roadmap' and ‘toolkit' with which leaders can plan for and empower development of new competencies in members of their management teams.

Written in an accessible and practical style, Extraordinary Leadership provides the reader with a clear understanding of the concepts and practice of leadership from the perspective of the author's 20 years' international experience in development and consulting.

Contents

• Introduction

• The nature of leaders and leadership
• Situations and operating environments
• Leadershio, management and extraordinary challenges

• The view from the tower
• Keeping the traffic moving - and signals clear
• The route plan

• Launching into the future - cheking the flight plan and the instrument panel
• Leading excellence
• Holding the ring - containing anxiety and distress
• The cultural perspective

• Planning for extraordinary performance
• Empowering extraordinary performance
• Developing the new extraordinary leadership
• References
• Index