Leader Within, The: Learning Enough About Yourself to Lead Others

by Drea Zigarmi, Ken Blanchard, Michael O'Connor

The first step towards becoming an outstanding leader: know yourself. This book will help you understand yourself as a leader... so you can change, grow, and become powerfully more effective. Authored by four world-renowned leadership experts, including the legendary Ken Blanchard, it draws on an extraordinary seven-year research study on how successful corporate executives exert influence. The authors begin by presenting self-change as your must urgent leadership challenge, and showing how your values and personality govern your actions, even when you don't realize it. You'll examine the inner self you're currently bringing to your "moments of influence," discovering how your disposition, values, beliefs, and persona are contributing right now to your success -- or failure. Throughout, the authors present proven, values-based approaches to leadership in both group settings and one-to-one contexts.

Genres: Leadership

266 pages, Hardcover

First published September 5, 2004

Reviews

[Hesham ellayeh · Rating 3 out of 5]

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[Jen · Rating 2 out of 5]

hard read...

[Hebah · Rating 1 out of 5]

Cliche-ridden, paced in short, choppy chunks, and even for a book written in 2005 relies heavily on outdated sources.

[Sathya Narayanan · Rating 4 out of 5]

The book vividly explains about what kind of a leader you are. It also tells how to find the kind of leader in you and how to work on nourishing it to make an impact with it in the real world. It explains leadership with a simple analogy to a leadership onion which makes it valuable as you practice becoming the "real" you. It explains the elements a leader should have and thus takes a positive step in explaining the real reader. Though the leader's effectiveness lies in the context in which the leader acts, it helps in changing the way we see the world from within.

[Ellen · Rating 4 out of 5]

I had to read this for my management strategies class and it was actually an enjoyable read. It was in depth yet easy to read, and now that I've read it once all the way through, I can go back to certain chapters as needed for a quick review. It reminded me a little of the book Understanding People by Larry Crabb, which is a great read!! Anyways this is a good book for anybody who wants to manage people effectively.