Book description
Leaders play an essential role in every aspect of our modern lives and
good leadership is an art that is highly prized. Effective leaders not
only control, appraise and analyse, they also encourage, improve and
inspire.
In Effective Leadership
John Adair, Britain’s foremost expert on leadership training, shows how
every manager can learn to lead. Drawing on numerous examples of
leadership in action - commercial, historical, military - he identifies
the essential requirements for good leadership and explains how you can
enhance your personality, knowledge and position to become the best
leader you can be.
Recognized as the ultimate tool for any aspiring leader, this landmark
book will help you to:
• Understand leadership - the characteristics and skills you need to be
an effective leader
• Develop leadership abilities - how to define tasks, plan, brief,
communicate, motivate and set an example
• Grow as a leader - how to put your leadership skills into practice
John Adair is an international leadership consultant to a wide variety
of organizations in business, government, the voluntary sector,
education and health, and has been named as one of the forty people
worldwide who have contributed most to the development of management
thought and practice. He has written over forty books on leadership,
management and history, which have been translated into many languages.
