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Overview
To become a leader, you need to act like a leader.
This book will show you how.
Ticket to Lead is aimed at high school and college-aged young adults, including recent graduates, who want to learn how to be leaders. Whether you are in school or out, this book will teach you how to lead. If you want to lead a school club, a sports team, a student government, a social group or a charity, this is your ticket. It will also show you how to apply your leadership skills as an employee, a gig worker or the founder of your own business.
You will learn how to become a leader sooner than you expect, while learning leadership principles that will last for a lifetime. You will also discover why learning to lead now, at this stage of your life, is so valuable to your future.
Ticket to Lead is crafted from two important ideas: First, leadership is a set of behaviors that are supported by background skills that make those behaviors more effective. Second, the fastest and best way to become a leader is to learn from other leaders. This book accelerates that process by explaining the behaviors and skills you need and showing you how to apply them.
The book covers ten essential leadership behaviors—five commitment behaviors focused on bringing people together, and five execution behaviors focused on building people and trust to drive results. Each of these chapters includes an explanation of the behavior, a story about how other young people have applied it, and tips for learning and improving the behavior. These behaviors are followed by a dozen supporting skills that help leaders make their leadership behaviors more effective.
Leaders lead and managers manage. Many do both. This is a book about the leadership side of the leader/manager continuum. It's not another business book about how to be a better manager.
Ticket to Lead fits today's limited attention spans. Chapters and ideas are short, making it easy to come and go. After reading the Intro and the first three chapters, you can continue straight through or jump to the areas you are most interested in. For those who want to dig deeper, an appendix includes a collection of additional leadership insights. Virtually every chapter is packed with useful suggestions about improving your leadership capabilities. If you want to dig deeper now or later, the book includes an appendix filled with even more leadership insights.
Ticket to Lead can change your life.
Learn to lead now, while you are still a young adult!
Product Details
| BN ID: | 2940186010289 |
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| Publisher: | Charles Harris |
| Publication date: | 07/10/2024 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 673 KB |
About the Author
Fueled by his experience as a business lawyer, professor, investment banker and CEO of publicly traded companies, Charles Harris writes business books and contemporary novels. He is the author or co-author of several books on business negotiating as well as dozens of articles on leadership, corporate governance, technology, banking, politics and the law. On the fiction side, he is the author of three vivid real-world thrillers set amid the emerging social, political and technological changes that are altering who we are and how we live: Intentional Consequences, Revenge Matters and Virtual Control. Harris has a B.A. degree in Political Science from the University of Florida and a law degree from Harvard Law School.
A Note from the Author:
I was a long way from being a leader during my middle and high school years. My grades were good but my social skills were poor. I was an only child, raised by my mom. We were financially challenged. I started learning to lead at the University of Florida (UF). I joined a fraternity, worked in student government and, in my senior year, was elected vice president of the student body. After graduating with high honors, being commissioned in the U.S. Army via ROTC and getting married, I went to Harvard Law School, where I began in the bottom 5% of my class and graduated cum laude three years later.
Following Harvard, I spent 18 years practicing corporate, banking, securities and technology law. I was VP and general counsel of a regional bank holding company. I taught at the UF College of Law. After my legal career, I was CEO of a private investment banking firm and a publicly traded federal savings bank, CFO of a publicly traded hospitality company and CEO of a semiconductor company that we turned around and took public. In the process, I led and managed lawyers, bankers, securities brokers, construction and development executives and engineers, along with a cast of financial, marketing and administrative people. We accomplished a lot together, and I am grateful for their support and what I learned from them.
Ticket to Lead is one of my efforts at paying things forward. Leadership changed my life. I want to help it change yours.