Lead Like Water: Many Can Manage, Few Can Lead
What is it that makes some leaders remarkably better than others? The most successful authentic leaders are like water�instead of just being powerful, they are essential. When they leave organizations, others follow them, even to competitors. When they leave prematurely, teams get dehydrated, morale dries up, and entire departments and organizations collapse. Just like water, they are vital. Can you name one living thing that can survive without water? Today�s successful companies and organizations also cannot survive without authentic leaders. Since nothing can survive without water, it�s imperative that we learn from water.

Best-selling author and highly sought-after organizational development consultant James Bird Guess reveals his insights, ideas, and observations from training and coaching more than 20,000 supervisors, managers, and senior-level executives from around the world.

As you drink from the pages of this book, you�ll discover:

� How to influence without intimidation
� What today�s employees need to stay motivated and boost morale
� Making organizational vision and values contagious
� The essential qualities of authentic leaders
� The #1 skill today�s business leaders must develop: adaptability
� Cultivating a work environment of trust, respect, open communication, and more
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Lead Like Water: Many Can Manage, Few Can Lead
What is it that makes some leaders remarkably better than others? The most successful authentic leaders are like water�instead of just being powerful, they are essential. When they leave organizations, others follow them, even to competitors. When they leave prematurely, teams get dehydrated, morale dries up, and entire departments and organizations collapse. Just like water, they are vital. Can you name one living thing that can survive without water? Today�s successful companies and organizations also cannot survive without authentic leaders. Since nothing can survive without water, it�s imperative that we learn from water.

Best-selling author and highly sought-after organizational development consultant James Bird Guess reveals his insights, ideas, and observations from training and coaching more than 20,000 supervisors, managers, and senior-level executives from around the world.

As you drink from the pages of this book, you�ll discover:

� How to influence without intimidation
� What today�s employees need to stay motivated and boost morale
� Making organizational vision and values contagious
� The essential qualities of authentic leaders
� The #1 skill today�s business leaders must develop: adaptability
� Cultivating a work environment of trust, respect, open communication, and more
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Lead Like Water: Many Can Manage, Few Can Lead

Lead Like Water: Many Can Manage, Few Can Lead

by James Guess
Lead Like Water: Many Can Manage, Few Can Lead

Lead Like Water: Many Can Manage, Few Can Lead

by James Guess

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What is it that makes some leaders remarkably better than others? The most successful authentic leaders are like water�instead of just being powerful, they are essential. When they leave organizations, others follow them, even to competitors. When they leave prematurely, teams get dehydrated, morale dries up, and entire departments and organizations collapse. Just like water, they are vital. Can you name one living thing that can survive without water? Today�s successful companies and organizations also cannot survive without authentic leaders. Since nothing can survive without water, it�s imperative that we learn from water.

Best-selling author and highly sought-after organizational development consultant James Bird Guess reveals his insights, ideas, and observations from training and coaching more than 20,000 supervisors, managers, and senior-level executives from around the world.

As you drink from the pages of this book, you�ll discover:

� How to influence without intimidation
� What today�s employees need to stay motivated and boost morale
� Making organizational vision and values contagious
� The essential qualities of authentic leaders
� The #1 skill today�s business leaders must develop: adaptability
� Cultivating a work environment of trust, respect, open communication, and more

Product Details

BN ID: 2940150337572
Publisher: James Bird Guess International Success Academy
Publication date: 08/26/2014
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 91
File size: 830 KB

About the Author

James Bird Guess was homeless after high school and built a quarter-million-dollar business from the trunk of his car. He is now a top consultant, keynote speaker, and subject-matter expert on employee engagement, culture change, talent retention, and maximizing organizational performance. The best-selling author of books How I Made a Quarter Million Dollar$ From the Trunk of My Car and Lead Like Water: Many Can Manage, Few Can Lead, James serves as president of the International Success Academy, an organizational development firm providing executive coaching, leadership training, and staff development strategies for Fortune 500 and Fortune 1000
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