Leadership: Thinking, Being, Doing
by Lee Thayer
Paperback - 360 pages (April 24, 2007)
WME Books; ISBN: 1934229016
Book Description
Here is a book on leadership like no other.
It begins by announcing that: "You can't learn to be a 'leader.'
... All you can do is be prepared if you are 'called' to provide
leadership." So begins Lee Thayer's relentless assault on conventional
thinking ... which, he tells us, will "always and inevitably
lead to conventional results."
From his initial "stretching exercises" for your mind,
he offers a detailed guidebook for making sure you're prepared when
your leadership opportunity arrives. The underpinning of his method
boils down to this statement:
"As you think, so will you be.
And as you are, so will you do."
He warns at the outset that much of what he's learned over four-plus
decades of working with CEOs to build high-performance organizations
may seem counter-intuitive and that the journey is "more difficult
than you can imagine." But he also notes, "If your learning
journey is not fun and exciting, it will not bear fruit."
So along the way you'll learn how to "slay dragons" (Ch.
5) and "overcome perversity" -- especially your own (Ch.
11). And in the process, you'll acquire the habits of thinking,
being, and doing that prepare you perform the leadership roles that
come your way.
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