Act Like A Leader, Think Like A Leader
by Herminia Ibarra /
2016 / English / PDF
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You aspire to lead with greater impact. The problem is you're busy
executing on today's demands. You know you have to carve out time
from your day job to build your leadership skills, but it's easy to
let immediate problems and old mind-sets get in the way.
You aspire to lead with greater impact. The problem is you're busy
executing on today's demands. You know you have to carve out time
from your day job to build your leadership skills, but it's easy to
let immediate problems and old mind-sets get in the way.
Herminia Ibarra—an expert on professional leadership and
development and a renowned professor at INSEAD, a leading
international business school—shows how managers and executives at
all levels can step up to leadership by making small but crucial
changes in their jobs, their networks, and themselves. In Act Like
a Leader, Think Like a Leader, she offers advice to help you:
Herminia Ibarra—an expert on professional leadership and
development and a renowned professor at INSEAD, a leading
international business school—shows how managers and executives at
all levels can step up to leadership by making small but crucial
changes in their jobs, their networks, and themselves. In Act Like
a Leader, Think Like a Leader, she offers advice to help you:
Redefine your job in order to make more strategic contributions
Diversify your network so that you connect to and learn from a
bigger range of stakeholders Become more playful with your
self-concept, allowing your familiar—and possibly
outdated—leadership style to evolve
Redefine your job in order to make more strategic contributions
Diversify your network so that you connect to and learn from a
bigger range of stakeholders Become more playful with your
self-concept, allowing your familiar—and possibly
outdated—leadership style to evolve
Ibarra turns the usual "think first and then act" philosophy on its
head by arguing that doing these three things will help you learn
through action and will increase what she calls your outsight—the
valuable external perspective you gain from direct experiences and
experimentation. As opposed to insight, outsight will then help
change the way you think as a leader: about what kind of work is
important; how you should invest your time; why and which
relationships matter in informing and supporting your leadership;
and, ultimately, who you want to become.
Ibarra turns the usual "think first and then act" philosophy on its
head by arguing that doing these three things will help you learn
through action and will increase what she calls your outsight—the
valuable external perspective you gain from direct experiences and
experimentation. As opposed to insight, outsight will then help
change the way you think as a leader: about what kind of work is
important; how you should invest your time; why and which
relationships matter in informing and supporting your leadership;
and, ultimately, who you want to become.
Packed with self-assessments and practical advice to help define
your most pressing leadership challenges, this book will help you
devise a plan of action to become a better leader and move your
career to the next level. It's time to learn by doing.
Packed with self-assessments and practical advice to help define
your most pressing leadership challenges, this book will help you
devise a plan of action to become a better leader and move your
career to the next level. It's time to learn by doing.