Introduction -- Understanding leadership -- What you have to be -- What you have to know -- What you have to do -- Pulling the threads together -- Developing your leadership skills -- Defining the task -- Planning -- Briefing -- Controlling -- Motivating -- Organizing -- Evaluating -- Leading by example -- Appendix: answers to exercises -- Index
What you have to be -- What you have to know -- What you need to do -- How to turn the core leadership functions into skills -- How to develop yourself as a leader -- How to lead at the strategic level -- How to grow leaders in your organization -- Finding greatness in people -- Appendix -- Further reading.
Introduction -- First thoughts -- Leading from the front -- Sharing dangers and hardships -- Discovering the three-circles model -- The role of leader -- A general framework -- Enthusiasm -- Integrity -- Tough and demanding but fair -- Warmth and humanity -- Humility -- The strategic leader -- Practical wisdom -- What the leader believes and hopes -- Conclusion
The peasant-question and the origins of Stalinism : rethinking the destruction of the October Revolution -- Trotsky, the left opposition and the rise of Stalinism : theory and practice -- Class-confict, political competition and social transformation : critical perspectives on the social history of the Russian revolution -- Political leadership and working-class agency in the Russian revolution : reply to William G. Rosenberg and S.A. Smith -- A 'postmodern' approach to the Russian revolution? : comment on Ronald Suny -- Alexander Bogdanov, Vpered, and the role of the intellectual in the workers' movement -- The Bogdanov issue : reply to Andrzej Walicki, Aileen Kelly and Zenovia Sochor -- Marxism, science, materialism: toward a deeper appreciation of the 1908-1909 philosophical debate in Russian social democracy -- Politics and philosophy in Russian social democracy : Alexander Bogdanov and the socio-theoretical foundations of Vpered
"From the world renowned leadership expert John Adair, comes this unique volume of all his classic works, including How to Grow Leaders, The Inspirational Leader, Leadership and Motivation, Not Bosses but Leaders, Strategic Leadership and the international best-seller Leadership of Muhammad. With his distinctive insight into how leadership is learned, John Adair presents six business books that cross boundaries into culture, history, strategy and motivation. Leadership Lexicon is an essential volume and an exclusive opportunity to own all of Adair's ground-breaking works that will help you transform your understanding of how leadership works and learn the skills to transform you into a leader"--
Arabist John Adair highlights the key leadership skills used by the Prophet & offers an introduction to His wisdom whilst introducing aspects of Bedouin culture & ancient proverbs to offer a resource for leaders & aspiring leaders