Why are We Bad at Picking Good Leaders? A Better Way to Evaluate Leadership Potential by Jeffrey Cohn

By:

Jeffrey Cohn [Author]

Contributor(s):

Jay Moran

Publication details: Wiley India Pvt Ltd New Delhi 2012Description: v, 279 pages; illustrations 24 cmISBN:

9788126536597

Subject(s):

Leadership

DDC classification:

658.4092

Contents:

Introduction · Integrity · Empathy · Emotional Intelligence · Vision · Judgment · Courage · Passion · A Better Way to Choose Leaders Appendix A: Commonly Used (and Misused) Leadership Terms Appendix B: The DNA of Leadership Competencies

Summary: Ever wonder what goes on behind closed board room doors when organizations pick their top leaders? It can be a contentious, secretive, even brutal process. Most of our leaders look good on paper-they have charisma, credentials, and confidence-yet they lack the real qualities that are necessary to succeed. In Why Are We Bad at Picking Good Leaders?, Cohn and Moran share the same insights and ideas they use to help organizations make better choices. Revealing seven essential attributes of all great leaders, they offer a fresh and powerful evaluation technique anyone can use to assess leader potential. Through dynamic, first-hand accounts from the business world, entertainment, sports, politics, education, and philanthropy, the authors offer the ultimate insider access and reveal how top organizations find and choose the best talent.

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Book	Indian Institute of Management Visakhapatnam General Stacks	658.4092 COH (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		001116

Introduction

· Integrity

· Empathy

· Emotional Intelligence

· Vision

· Judgment

· Courage

· Passion

· A Better Way to Choose Leaders

Appendix A: Commonly Used (and Misused) Leadership Terms

Appendix B: The DNA of Leadership Competencies

Ever wonder what goes on behind closed board room doors when organizations pick their top leaders? It can be a contentious, secretive, even brutal process. Most of our leaders look good on paper-they have charisma, credentials, and confidence-yet they lack the real qualities that are necessary to succeed. In Why Are We Bad at Picking Good Leaders?, Cohn and Moran share the same insights and ideas they use to help organizations make better choices. Revealing seven essential attributes of all great leaders, they offer a fresh and powerful evaluation technique anyone can use to assess leader potential.

Through dynamic, first-hand accounts from the business world, entertainment, sports, politics, education, and philanthropy, the authors offer the ultimate insider access and reveal how top organizations find and choose the best talent.

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