The Leader's Window: Mastering the Four Styles of leadership to Build High Performing Teams

by John D.W. Beck, Neil M. Yeager

Overview

"A great read for anyone who is trying to live the 7 habits at work." - Dr. Stephen R. Covey

Do you know how to lead people? This is the toughest act required of every supervisor, manager, executive, and CEO. In the face of leadership challenges and increasing pressure to produce results, here is proven guidance for achieving the highest possible performance from your workers-both collectively and individually. Neither abdicating nor dominating, but truly empowering workers is the key.

Peer into this newly expanded edition of The Leader's Window to:

- Build and maintain high-performance teams to guarantee long-term success
- Expose seven teamwork myths, and revise tactics accordingly
- Meet the needs of the people you work for and the people who work for you

It's not easy being a leader, but it is possible to achieve greatness and support long-term success even at the frenetic pace of business as we now encounter it. This book will show you how.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781857886764
Publisher:	Mobius
Publication date:	06/14/2016
Edition description:	Second Edition
Pages:	320
Sales rank:	135,294
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

JOHN D. W. BECK, Ed.D., is one of the founders of the Charter Oak Consulting Group, a firm specializing in strengthening organizational performance by developing effective leaders, building high-performing teams and aligning organizations in pursuit of a shared vision. Recent clients include British Petroleum, Carrier, and Digital Equipment.

NEIL M. YEAGER, Ed.D., has fifteen years of professional experience as an organizational development consultant. Clients include Coopers & Lybrand and McKinsey & Co. Formerly based at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst where his adult Career Transitions Program won a national award for innovation, he is currently a consultant with the Charter Oak Consulting Group.

Editorial Reviews

Long after the strained analogies of the latest business book have faded into undistinguished memory, this memorable tool kit will continue to be used in everyday practice by the lucky readers who have picked up this gem of a book. After a quick and easy read, you'll keep coming back again and again.

The Leader's Window offers a very practical system for bringing people together and getting them to work together in ways that produce exceptional results.—Ramani Ayer, Chairman and CEO, The Hartford Financial Services Group

Reader friendly, immensely practical, well illustrated. Illuminating! The Leader's Window takes the highly successful Situational Leadership model to a whole new level. Then it brilliantly applies leadership styles to the four phase process of building high-performance teams. This book is a guide to the aligning and empowering roles of Principle-Centered Leadership. A great read for anyone who is trying to live the 7 Habits at work.

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