The I of Leadership - Nigel Nicholson Gebunden

This is the leadership book you have to read: a barn-storming new take on what makes a versatile integrated and effective leader Using stories and examples from the lives of leaders from the sports stadium to the White House to the office of the CEO Nicholson shows vividly how the capacity of leaders to see what others do not see frames their actions and allows them to transform build destroy or stabilize. Leaders fail through lack of insight--into themselves and into the worlds they inhabit. The strategic challenge of leadership is to find the right balance between impact and versatili ty and the successful crafting of an identity that merges the leader and the surrounding culture or 'zeitgeist.' Leaders covered in the book include: George Bush Tony Blair George S Patton Warren Buffet Steve Jobs Josef Stalin Hannibal Elizabeth I Nelson Mandela Edith Cowan Abraham Lincoln Mohandas Gandhi Henry Ford Ernest Shackleton Barack Obama Robert Maxwell JFK Pope John XXIII Margaret Thatcher and Samuel Pepys. This book resonates with insights and searching questions on the nature of human leadership. It will be an invaluable guide to managers consultants and people everywhere.