Put aside all the hypey new frameworks the listicles the "10 best things you need" to succeed
as a leader today. The critical leadership practices--the ones that will allow a leader to make
the biggest impact over time--are already well established. They're about how you relate to
others. How you make difficult strategic choices. How you get results. How you scan the
landscape around you build a vision for the future and inspire people to follow you. In fact
these fundamental skills are becoming more important today as organizations and teams become
increasingly networked and fragmented and the nature of leadership hierarchies changes.What's
hard is actually doing these things--and excelling at them. In this book strategy and change
experts Ron Ashkenas and Brook Manville distill the best proven ideas and frameworks about
leadership from Harvard Business Review and from their careers in leadership development and
transformation into a concise handbook that shows rising leaders how to have the most impact on
their organizations. You'll learn how to build a unifying vision set strategy manage for
results hire and inspire great leaders and teams drive innovation and finally lead
yourself on your own career journey.Each chapter of the book describes one of these six
practices in depth discussing the pitfalls that real leaders face and how to overcome them
with insights from well-known leaders such as Stanley McChrystal Dominic Barton Darren Walker
Jack Welch and Ann Mulcahy. Each chapter also synthesizes the best Harvard Business Review
thinking on the topic. This book gives you the tools you need to have more impact as a leader
today and into the future.
