Leadership the hard way why leadership can't be taught and how you can learn it anyway

"Few subjects have captivated the business world in recent years more than leadership. Yet at the very moment we are seeing so many efforts to teach leadership, we are also experiencing widespread and continuous failures of leadership - and not just in business but in politics, education, and o...

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Main Author: Frohman, Dov
Other Authors: Howard, Robert
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: San Francisco, CA Jossey-Bass 2008
Edition:1st ed
Series:The Warren Bennis signature series
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Collection: O'Reilly - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:"Few subjects have captivated the business world in recent years more than leadership. Yet at the very moment we are seeing so many efforts to teach leadership, we are also experiencing widespread and continuous failures of leadership - and not just in business but in politics, education, and other institutions of modern society. The reason for this disconnect, says Dov Frohman, is that most of the conventional wisdom about leadership today is, while not wrong exactly, surprisingly irrelevant to the true challenges and dilemmas of leading in today's world. While so many of the articles, books, and programs on the subject maintain that leadership is largely a matter of technique or a set of skills that can be taught, Frohman believes that precisely the opposite is the case: learning how to lead is more in the nature of cultivating personal wisdom than it is of acquiring technical skills." "In this book, Frohman - iconoclastic innovator and founder of Intel Israel - and coauthor Robert Howard present a method of living and working that can truly facilitate the learning of leadership. Their method shows how to go against the current, fight conventional wisdom, and embrace the unexpected. It is about trusting oneself and valuing intuition, principles, and imagination as much as hard skills and analysis. Frohman combines his counterintuitive ideas with experiences from his own background - from hiding out during the Nazi occupation of Holland as a child to becoming a leading innovator in the semiconductor industry - to show how readers can build their own leadership abilities. A leader's values and personality, he ultimately reveals, are the only sure source of stability in a world of continuous change."--Jacket
Physical Description:xxv, 127 pages
ISBN:1118899474
9781118899472
9780470267684
6611284885
0470267682
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9786611284886