This unique Deluxe Audio Edition of the New York Times bestseller includes the abridged audio book on three CDs; a highly designed, 24-page, 4-color booklet; and a fourth CD with a presentation in PowerPoint format that you can share with others on your team.
360 Degree Leaders' influence is greater than they know. They have a unique opportunity to exercise influence in all directions-up (to the boss), across (among their peers), and down (to those they lead). When they practice the disciplines of 360 Degree Leadership, the opportunities will be endless . . . for their organization, for their career, and for their life.
Publishers Weekly
In this latest treatise, leadership mega-guru Maxwell (The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership) taps a rich vein of corporate angst: the plight of the middle manager, saddled with responsibilities but lacking real power, torn by conflicting tasks and time-management dilemmas, seething with thwarted ambition. As Macbeth shows, it's a predicament fraught with tragic potential, but the staid, platitudinous treatment given it by Maxwell and ghostwriter Charlie Wetzel drains away the drama. They generally counsel acceptance of limitations. Maxwell tells middle managers to work diligently in subordinate positions, support the CEO's vision, find the good in incompetent or malevolent leaders, infiltrate their bosses' emotional lives ("Listen to your leader's heartbeat.... What makes them laugh?... Cry?.... Sing?") and "stand up for your leader whenever you can." They can thus exert an unsung but crucial "influence" over higherups, while themselves practicing a higher, sublimated form of leadership by selflessly nurturing the potential of their own colleagues and underlings. Unfortunately, Maxwell's practical advice boils down to vague truisms ("when you find a problem, provide a solution") or clich s ("If your boss is a golfer, you may want to take up the game"). His bland injunctions to resignation, patience and self-effacement are unobjectionable, but also uninspiring. (Jan. 10) Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.
Categories:
- Business & Money
- Management & Leadership
- Leadership & Motivation
- Management & Leadership
Publisher : Harpercollins Leadership
Author : Maxwell, John C.
Language : English
Edition : First Edition
Published :2005-12-09
Number Of Pages : 313
Binding : hardcover
ISBN-10 : 0785260927
ISBN-13 : 9780785260929
Item weight : 1.06 lb
Dimensions : 1.34 in x 6.46 in x 9.33 in
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