ABSTRACT
This book shares inspiring stories of leadership in multiple international and multi-cultural settings, in search of excellence, creativity and strategies to retain resilience. It is about flourishing at work even under intense pressure. Real leaders in different industry sectors, from healthcare to prisons to supermarkets, high performance sport and international development aid, share their personal stories of leadership and learning. These individuals share personal and systemic insights, looking beneath the surface at how they cope and lead in varied, complex, changing and highly challenging environments. This book is a call for higher ethics in leadership and for the promotion of greater diversity, productivity and individual and organisational sustainability.
The author asks leaders:
What does it take to be an effective leader in your field?
What can the rest of us learn about leadership from you, even if we do a completely different kind of job?
From Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria and Iraq, Sudan, Senegal and the Central African Republic, Honduras, former Czechoslovakia, the UK and the USA, leaders share their insights with humility and passion. The author Rachel Ellison adds her own psychoanalytic interpretations, in service of deepening our self-awareness and our understanding of what is going on at work.This book brings commercial, public sector and third sector leaders fresh, applicable learning at the point of urgency.
