About The Work of Leaders: How Vision, Alignment, and Execution Will Change the Way You Lead
The culmination of six years of research and development, The Work of Leaders presents a simple structure that neatly captures the complexity of contemporary leadership. The goal of this book is to make this wealth of leadership insight accessible to anyone who wants better results as a leader. The work that leaders do―the work that really matters―is boiled down to three crafting a vision, building alignment, and championing execution. Vision, Alignment, and Execution are “magic words.” They strike a chord that turns the goal of leadership into tangible steps. With passion and insight, the authors draw from the best-known leadership authorities, while leveraging their unparalleled access to data from thousands of leaders and followers and their connections to hundreds of organizational development consultants. Interwoven with humor and drawing from real-world scenarios, The Work of Leaders distills leadership best practices into a simple, compelling process that helps leaders at all levels get immediate results.
Detail
Complete Title: The Work of Leaders: How Vision, Alignment, and Execution Will Change the Way You Lead
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number of Pages: 240
Publication Time: April 15, 2013
Publisher: Pfeiffer
ISBN: 1118636538
ISBN13: 9781118636534
About Julie Straw
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Reviews The Work of Leaders: How Vision, Alignment, and Execution Will Change the Way You Lead
Shirley Lee
I’ve facilitated many team meetings where vision, goals, and deployment plans were made, as well as participating in change management projects. After reading this book, I saw many of the concepts I h…
Roberta
A quick easy read with a usable and useful leadership framework – vision, alignment, execution. Easier to read than Kouzes and Posner’s The Leadership Challenge, but they complement one another. This…
Susan W
The beginning was awful…too repetitive and waste my time. It gets better and has some seriously great stuff…
Steve Brown
Please note that my reviews aren’t really review, they are more like my cliff notes that I take while reading books.How Vision, Alignment, and Execution will Change the Way you leadVision, Alignment…
Kristine
I read quite a few leadership and management books for work and most have a few nuggets of wisdom hidden among the dreck (and don’t even get me started on their tendency to use “parables”!). This one…
Aaron Mikulsky
I really enjoyed The Work of Leaders. Thanks Julie! It’s simple yet powerful. The book provides many wonderful tips and pragmatic ideals. To summarize: Vision, Alignment, and Execution (VAE) are the m…
David D. Knapp, Ph.D.
This was a reread from a few years ago – before I had a goodreads account. I’m facilitating an Everything DiSC: Work of Leaders session on Wednesday, so I decided to refresh myself on the training’s t…
Michael Belcher
The Inscape authors conducted a sound scholastic study of leader performance yet presented it in a soft-science manner based primarily on secondary sources. The Vision – Align – Execute leadership mod…
Meng Tan
Powerful in its simplicity and brevity. I read this quickly (lightning loan), without time to dwell on the concepts, so I’ll be waiting for the chance to read it a second time. Appendix B, feedback ou…