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The Unfinished Leader
Peter C. Cairo, David L. Dotlich, Cade Cowan
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Sozialwissenschaften, Recht, Wirtschaft / Management
Beschreibung
With the demands of technology, transparency, and constant connectedness, and calls for higher performance, leaders from the front line to the C-suite face complex dilemmas that cannot be easily denied or postponed. These perplexing, recurring issues are familiar to anyone in a leadership role today, including: * How do I balance my functional or business unit goals with the needs of my peers and the whole company? * How do I support and promote others while still advancing my own career? * How do I emphasize teamwork and still reward the "stars"? * Can I really devote enough time and energy to both family and work? These are not "problems" but paradoxes--situations in which there will never be a single correct solution--and while they make many leaders feel overwhelmed and challenged, this remarkable book provides help. The Unfinished Leader is a modern handbook for recognizing, facing, and inspiring others to expose the real issues that underlie paradoxes in modern organizations. Leaders must first recognize situations they will never be able to "solve" and understand how to confront the barriers--in their own heads and their organizations--that push them towards seeking ultimate solutions that don't exist. Leading through complexity requires giving up the illusion of control, consistency, and closure, while embracing the reality of being permanently "unfinished." Drawing from interviews with 100 CEOs and top leaders from a wide range of companies--such as Avon, Nike, Colgate, DeutschePost DHL, Johnson & Johnson, PepsiCo, and many more-- The Unfinished Leader provides the mindsets and tools to recognize contradictory requirements, understand competing demands, and still be able to take action. No one can find or even should look for perfect solutions to impossible situations. The Unfinished Leader will help leaders at all levels understand and excel at their true task: guiding themselves and their teams through ongoing paradoxes, reconciling competing outcomes, continually changing and adapting, and thereby building lasting success.
Rezensionen
"I hope every leader will finish The UnfinishedLeader. Written by coaches and advisers to some of theworld's top CEOs, this book describes in concrete terms howsuccessful leaders bring people together in the face of complexityand uncertainty."
"Using their extensive experience with global leaders anddeep knowledge, Dotlich, Cairo, and Cowan make a compelling casefor why every leader should aspire to be unfinished. TheUnfinished Leader offers proven methods, instructive examples,and practical tools."
"Senior leaders live in a world of complex, ever-changing,and unstructured challenges. The Unfinished Leader offers arare opportunity to learn from experts not only how to deal withreal world complexity but to thrive in it."
"The mental skills a leader cultivates and brings tosolving challenges are important. The Unfinished Leader willallow leaders to face with clarity the seemingly unsolvableproblems they confront."
"The Unfinished Leader shows how best to tackle bigissues: through collaboration, constant revision, and a willingnessto let go of being in control."
"The Unfinished Leader is a must-read for anyexecutive who wrestles with paradoxes such as the tension betweenshort-term and long-term goals, local and global demands, and messyorganizational structures. Every executive in business today needsto read this book."
"Leaders in all organizations--whether companies orgovernments--are faced with messy challenges every day. TheUnfinished Leader accepts these paradoxes as a fact of life andoffers useful advice and real world examples so every leader canrespond more effectively to these challenges."
"The Unfinished Leader is a fascinating andprovocative book which makes a strong case that leaders are always'becoming' rather than reaching a destination. Inparticular, the authors focus on the paradoxes that characterizeorganizational life and how leaders can learn to confront, livewith, and ultimately leverage those paradoxes. The book is acompelling combination of counterintuitive theory combined with atremendous amount of very practical and pragmaticadvice. Leaders at all levels, facing the increasinglyparadoxical nature of leadership and organizations, will benefitgreatly from this work."
"Leadership dilemmas are an opportunity to inspireinnovation and creativity if you approach them with the right toolsand mindset. Full of invaluable insights from international CEOsand senior executives, The Unfinished Leader providespractical advice on how the best leaders turn obstacles intoopportunities to inspire innovation and creativity."
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Wirtschaft u. Management, Führung, Management / Leadership, Management f. Führungskräfte, Business & Management