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Leadership wise : why business books suck, but wise leaders succeed /

"In Leadership Wise, Chief Product Officer at Podium, John Foreman, delivers a different and refreshingly practical take on business leadership. The author moves beyond what a leader should look like, to discuss how you can make better decisions over time to help your organization accomplish it...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Foreman, John W. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., [2023]
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  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Contents at a Glance
  • Contents
  • A Few Things Up Front
  • Other Than Being a Bad Corporate Trainer, What Are My Qualifications?
  • What's a Leader?
  • Chapter 1 Business Books Suck
  • Context Is Everything: Do Things That [Don't?] Scale
  • What If I Said That Bad Leaders Are Too Consistent?
  • Introducing Wisdom Literature
  • The Facebook Uncle Dilemma
  • Chapter 2 Let's Warm Up! Ten Business Choices Where One Option and Its Opposite Both Have Merit
  • Let's Take a "Walk Around the Business"
  • People
  • A Players vs. B Players
  • Accountability vs. Blamelessness
  • Inputs vs. Outputs
  • Far vs. Fast
  • Process
  • Speed vs. Order
  • Specialization vs. Generalization
  • Top Down vs. Bottom Up
  • Product
  • Good vs. Great
  • Bundling vs. Unbundling
  • Build vs. Buy
  • I Didn't Give You Answers
  • I Gave You Options
  • Let's Do a Little Exercise
  • Chapter 3 Generating Options
  • Let's Get This Out of the Way: Consult Yourself
  • Consult Your Co-workers and Customers
  • Set Expectations in These Conversations: You're Just Gathering Input
  • Consult Your Network
  • Go Ahead, Read the Business Books!
  • Management by Metaphor
  • What Are My Levers? Chart Options Against Your Decision Levers
  • Using All the Parts of the Animal
  • Pull a "10th Man Rule"
  • Checking In on Our Exercise
  • Wisdom Literature Would Suggest None of These Options Is "Wrong"
  • Isn't This Overkill? "Paralysis by Analysis"
  • Over-confidently Incorrect
  • This Needn't Take Long
  • Analysis Paralysis Is All About Objectives, Not Options
  • Chapter 4 What's Your Objective?
  • A Problem Isn't a Priority
  • Two Words to Know and Love: Minimize and Maximize
  • Is It Possible to Love Two Objectives at the Same Time?
  • Turn Priorities Into Constraints
  • A Brief Interlude
  • There's Plenty of Book Left!
  • Chapter 5 Check Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself
  • Going Deeper with Data
  • Is an Anecdote Data?
  • Quantitative vs. Qualitative. . .Who Wants Pretty Good Pizza?
  • Priorities and Constraints Come First
  • You Know What They Say About Assumptions
  • Default to Learning Fast and Iterating
  • Not All Who Wander Are Lost
  • One-way vs. Two-Way Doors. . .or Are They Streets? Two-Way Things
  • Do a Premortem
  • Blazing Through Covering Your Ass
  • Chapter 6 Making the Most of Execution
  • Make Your Decisions "Fully Loaded"
  • "Use All the Parts of the Animal"
  • Establish Success and Failure Criteria Up Front
  • Be Transparent, But Commit to the Bit!
  • Transparency Costs You Nothing
  • What's "My Part of Our Whole?"
  • Commit to the Bit
  • There Is No Separation of Mind and Body
  • Chapter 7 "Keeping It Real"
  • Emotions Are Shortcuts
  • Diving a Little Deeper into My Knee-Jerk Reactions
  • All Feelings Are Valid. Always Acting Out of Them Is Neither Authentic nor Beneficial
  • A Process for Becoming Increasingly Authentic
  • Start with Post Facto Reflection