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Liftoff : an astronaut commander's countdown for purpose-powered leadership.

Learn and apply scores of practical, empowering, and career-boosting leadership keys from a truly out-of-this-world leader and astronaut. You should feel the "need to lead!" In today's business world, our teams face daunting challenges in producing real results supporting a greater pu...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Searfoss, Rick (Autor)
Otros Autores: Cassidy, Duane (writer of foreword.)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [United States] : Morgan James Publishing : Made available through hoopla, 2015.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Intro; Title; Copyright; Table of Contents; Illustrations; Foreword by General Duane Cassidy; Preface: The Compelling Need For You To Lead; Acknowledgments; INTRODUCTION: USING THIS BOOK, YOUR FLIGHT DATA FILE; Your Flight Data File; This Book's Mission; The 4P Leadership Performance Balance; Program: The PAPA Effective Execution System; The Countdown of Purposeful Performance Principles to Guide Execution; Purposeful Performance Principles; Practical, Not Theoretical; The Content Intent: Story Centered; The Subsystem of Chapter Structure; PART I PURPOSE: THE WHY; 12 Choose the Hard
  • Purposeful Performance Principle 12: Actively seeking and embracing difficult challenges gives powerful initial direction, informs the vision, and encourages the team. We Choose; That Vision Thing; Accepting the Challenge; Why Take the Risk?; Pause for a Collective Courage Top Off; A Mach-25 Commute Is Still Just a Commute; Tough Targets; Max Q: Push on Through; Energizing the Team; Support and Encouragement for the Choosers of the Hard; The Common Thread: Courage to Try; 11 Make the Mission Matter
  • Purposeful Performance Principle 11: A meaningful cause in service to others inspires team members to fully commit to mission accomplishment. Cheerful Dedication; The Mission That Matters: Service to Others; Fly It; Live It; Ignition ... and ... Liftoff!; No Wheel Spinning, a Caution; Contagious Enthusiasm: The KidSat Payload; "Light This Candle!"; Aspirational Vigor; PART II PEOPLE: THE WHO; 10 Work the Matrix; Purposeful Performance Principle 10: Constant care of the matrix of both internal and external relationships amplifies team unity and leverages effective collaboration.
  • What's a Leader's Real Job?Building Nodes: Developing Individual Team Members; Respect: A Nearly Surreal Experience; Recognition and Strengthening: The Space Shuttle Seamstress; Forging Links: Promoting Relationships; Pouring the Cohesion Glue: Unity; A Matrix to the Nth Power; 9 Build Total Trust; Purposeful Performance Principle 9: More than any single factor, a high-trust culture enables capturing people's best efforts and contributions to meet the most challenging commitments.; Poignant Goodbyes; Trusting Your Life to Your Team; First-Order Requirement: The Prime Directive
  • Zeroth-Order Requirement: TrustworthinessNo Bad Apples; The Commander Sets the Tone; Exercising Capable Humility; The Check-Six Mindset; Dream Crews; Trust Your Ground Team; PART III PERSPECTIVE: THE HOW; 8 Balance the Orbit; Purposeful Performance Principle 8: A positive yet reality-grounded perspective sets the stage for highest team member engagement, productivity, and results.; Connected to a Billion; Keep It Light, Even While Dealing with the Serious; Building in Pressure-Relief Valves; Don't Take Yourself Too Seriously: Reactive Version; Bounce Right Back; Fit for the Work