Book : Act Like A Leader, Think Like A Leader - Ibarra,...

-Titulo Original : Act Like A Leader, Think Like A Leader

-Fabricante :

Harvard Business Review Press

-Descripcion Original:

You aspire to lead with greater impact. The problem is you’re busy executing on today’s demands. You know you have to carve out time from your day job to build your leadership skills, but it’s easy to let immediate problems and old mind-sets get in the way. Herminia Ibarra-an expert on professional leadership and development and a renowned professor at INSEAD, a leading international business school-shows how managers and executives at all levels can step up to leadership by making small but crucial changes in their jobs, their networks, and themselves. In Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader, she offers advice to help you:* Redefine your job in order to make more strategic contributions* Diversify your network so that you connect to, and learn from, a bigger range of stakeholders* Become more playful with your self-concept, allowing your familiar-and possibly outdated-leadership style to evolveIbarra turns the usual “think first and then act” philosophy on its head by arguing that doing these three things will help you learn through action and will increase what she calls your outsight-the valuable external perspective you gain from direct experiences and experimentation. As opposed to insight, outsight will then help change the way you think as a leader: about what kind of work is important; how you should invest your time; why and which relationships matter in informing and supporting your leadership; and, ultimately, who you want to become.Packed with self-assessments and practical advice to help define your most pressing leadership challenges, this book will help you devise a plan of action to become a better leader and move your career to the next level. It’s time to learn by doing. Review Such a clearly written and empowering book, that does so much more than the title suggests (which is quite a lot!) This book has really helped re-energise me as a person, as well as look at our agency and my role--now I focus on the business and not the work. I appreciate its a bit out of place from the rest of the selection, so see it as an update on where were at now as people and as a business. The music is still there, the art is still there, and the inspiration is still there. -- Dan Moore, managing director, Its Nice That2016 Axiom Business Book Silver Award in LEADERSHIP“[One] of my favourite business books…Ibarra, an Insead professor, points out that the best way to learn how to be a leader is to lead… She includes great advice about networking, authenticity and storytelling, areas that in other hands can seem like hopeless fads.” - Financial Times“Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader serves as a thoroughly original, practical guide to becoming a better leader.” - TD magazine (Association for Talent Development)“Packed with self-assessments and a huge amount of practical advice this book will help you to devise a plan of action to become a better leader and bring your career to the next level. One of the best self-improvement and leadership books now around.” - Andreas von der Heydt, Head of Kindle Content at Amazon, GermanyAct Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader, another of my favourite business books of 2015...an action-packed guide to the leadership transition” - Andrew Hill, Financial Times“The opposite of a traditional guidebook, the book will inspire you to achieve success and satisfaction in a fast-evolving workplace.” - Business Insider“Looking at the flood of new publications on the theme of leadership, the question arises if they are actually of any use to the reader. The book Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader by INSEAD Professor Herminia Ibarra is unquestionably an exception. Based on a solid academic basis, it delivers concrete assistance for the first time takeover of a leadership role….” - Personalwirtschaft magazine“According to Ibarra, building a more diverse network can deliver flashes of outsight, which in turn can help us redefine what we do and who we are. He