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 mindsets get in the way. Herminia
Ibarra-renowned leadership expert at London Business School-shows how individuals 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 Ibarra offers advice to: Redefine
your job in order to make more-strategic contributions diversify your network so that you
connect to and learn from a wider range of stakeholders and become more playful with your
self-concept allowing your familiar (and possibly outdated) leadership style to evolve. Ibarra
turns the usual leadership advice-to generate insight about yourself through reflection and
analysis of your strengths and weaknesses-on its head by arguing that you must first act and
experiment your way into trying new things. The valuable external perspective you gain from
direct experiences and experimentation which Ibarra calls outsight provides new and critical
information on what kind of work is important to you how you should invest your time why and
which relationships matter and ultimately who you want to become. Packed with
self-assessments and practical advice that you can implement immediately this book gives you
the tools to start acting like a leader and to advance your career to the next level--
