ABSTRACT

Extraordinary performance from ordinary people is a must read for the high performing manager with the ambition to reach corporate leadership status. The book is as practical as it is exciting. How to succeed and which personal qualities are required from those who display the capability for great responsibility, are the themes that run throughout.

The book focuses on both the key value adding activities and disciplines for driving through change and the styles of corporate leaders that attract success

Extraordinary performance from ordinary people highlights how the leaders of the company, as a corporate team, can adopt and adapt the four value creating styles. It emphasises how to recognise which leadership framework suits the challenges of particular competitive environments. This insight nurtures a confidence to act decisively adopting an approach to communication which harnesses the energies of the organisation to achieve stretching performance targets. It concentrates on how leaders make a difference by what they do. Diagnostic models that show what really works and under which circumstances are core to this book.

part |95 pages

Developing a Practical Leadership Model

chapter |41 pages

Redefining corporate leadership

chapter |23 pages

Focused leadership styles

chapter |27 pages

Most leaders are also followers

part |115 pages

Identifying the Right Leadership Style

chapter |30 pages

Value-creating inspirational leadership

chapter |25 pages

Connecting the parts of the business

chapter |27 pages

Aligning the organization

part |37 pages

The Leadership Model in Practice and Theory

chapter |19 pages

Leading change and changing leaders

chapter |15 pages

Theoretical underpinnings of the model