Leadership For Results : Removing Barriers to Success for People, Projects, and Processes

It is widely recognized that leadership is a critical factor in enabling any organization to adapt to its environment through implementing strategy, thereby surviving and thriving. This book takes research from a diverse range of fields on human behavior and distills it down into three themes in which leadership behavior is vital. Author Tom Barker labels these three themes Intentions, Influence, and Information, and their typical actions are described and illustrated by examples. Readers are taught how to achieve common purposes, collective decisions, and credible results.

Leadership For Results is aimed not only at executives but all managers responsible for implementing strategy, including their advisors in areas like Human Resources, Information Technology, Quality and Finance. It is applicable to organizations large and small, in the private sector, public sector, and not-for-profit.

List of Figures and Tables
Preface
Acknowledgments

Chapter 1. : Why Do Organizations Need Leadership?
Chapter 2. : What Do Effective Leaders Do?
Chapter 3. : Effective Leaders are All Too Rare, But They are Out There
Chapter 4. : Key Leadership Steps in Each Theme
Chapter 5. : Barrier #1 : Passive Conformity
Chapter 6. : Barrier #2 : Adversarial Competitiveness
Chapter 7. : Barrier #3 : Arrogant Complacency
Chapter 8. : Intentions : Promote Stakeholder-Focused Thinking
Chapter 9. : Intentions : Identify Purposes That Meet Stakeholder Needs
Chapter 10. : Intentions : Align Stakeholder Purposes
Chapter 11. : Information : Promote Fact-Based Decisions
Chapter 12. : Information : Identify Conclusions that Address Stakeholder Risks
Chapter 13. : Information : Align Stakeholder Decisions
Chapter 14. : Case Study of a Business That Got Back on Track
Chapter 15. : Influence : Promote Give-and-Take Behavior
Chapter 16. : Influence : Identify Ground Rules That Guide Behavior
Chapter 17. : Influence : Align Stakeholder Behavior
Chapter 18. : Case Study : Using the Leadership Model to Understand Past Failures and Create Future
Chapter 19. : Key Questions for Leaders

Bibliography
Index