True North - Discover Your Authentic Leadership (JB Warren Bennis Series)
"Just as a compass points to a magnetic field, your True North pulls you at the finish of your leadership. If you follow your inner compass, your leadership is authentic, and people will naturally want to associate with you. Although others may guide or influence is your truth, derived from your life story and only you can determine what it should be. "(True North, Introduction)
True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership is a useful book for those whotrying to develop as leaders. As shown in the above quotation, this book is about the leader him or herself, giving as the leader development, and how to recognize and interpret the sources that give rise to authentic leadership.
Bill George, former CEO of Medtronic and now a professor at Harvard Business School, teamed up with co-author Peter Sims and two other researchers to 125 Heads of State and Government at age 23 to 93 interviews. The leaders were selected on the basistheir reputation for authenticity and success. Twenty-eight percent of respondents were women, 8% were ethnic minorities, and 12% born outside the United States. All were asked: "How to become and remain an authentic leader?"
Based on these answers, True North tells the stories of the leaders, and thus provides illustrations of sometimes tempted to lie principles and episodes that led to authentic reason. The stories carry the impact that the mere narrativerare. For example, readers learn about Kevin Sharer, wunderkind of the GE, to lead the Left MCI, where he exhibited arrogance of trying to organize the new company after only six weeks on the job market. This movement was mainly because Sharer lacked credibility within the company. dissatisfied and ineffective, Schärer wanted to return to GE, but Jack Welch (then CEO of GE) said: "Hey, Kevin, forget you ever worked here." Sharer recalled that he was the first time in denial about the scope ofwithdrawn the problems he faced at MCI, then he turned and ultimately defeatist and cyncial and isolated. Finally, after a lifetime of being the "Shooting Star", he discovered that developing the credibility of the people he tries to lead them, get to his colleagues and to be patient. Later moved to Amgen, where, after seven years of study, he was a competent and authentic leaders.
The theme of True North is that a leader know or discover the "True North to" the endfor his leadership. This confidence must be balanced and life values and principles of sustainable, well aware, a rationale, the establishment of a support team and the creation of an integrated life. Perhaps the most useful feature of True North is located in Appendix C, shows the leadership exercises after reading each chapter will be completed. The exercises require deep self-reflection and honesty, and working through them will increase certainly one of the leadingAbility.
What's in it for lawyers? The Language of True North is the corporate-based. But the principles transfer well to the lawyer-leaders. Particularly noteworthy is the discussion of why an integrated life issues in leadership, an issue easily overlooked in the stress of the Advocate is "Real integrity from the integration of all aspects of your life so that you are true to themselves in all settings. Imagine your life as a house with one bedroom for your personal life, aStudy for your professional life, a family room for your family and a living room to share with your friends. . . . If you can act the same in any setting, you are well on your way to live your life with genuine integrity. Living this way will lead you a true leader, a fulfilling life. "
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