Uncommon Leadership: How to Build Competitive Advantage by Thinking Differently
- 4h 18m
- Anthony Sturgess, Phil Higson
- Kogan Page
- 2014
In unpredictable circumstances and when resources are constrained, leaders are expected to show the way forward, by thinking differently, coming up with new strategies and building sustainable competitive advantage. However, what is common to good leadership is often uncommon practice. If leaders are to shape organizations and push them ahead of competition, they need to be stimulated to think strategically, and Uncommon Leadership offers a new model through which they can learn how to do the common things uncommonly well.
Supported by a companion website providing updates, tools and resources, this book presents five uncommon insights into leadership:
- Seeing: finding the sense before it becomes common and becoming a "pathfinder" leader
- Shaping: making good sense into common sense and becoming a "game-changer" leader
- Showing: doing the common things uncommonly well and becoming a "rain-maker" leader
- Serving: having the common touch and becoming a "bridge-builder"
- Sharing: making uncommon leadership more common by developing other leaders and becoming a "play-maker"
In order to energize managers and leaders, they need to feel challenged, stretched and inspired, and this book captures ideas specifically designed to motivate executives to develop their own distinctive approach to thinking differently about business.
About the Authors
Phil Higson is a published author and active researcher, with over 30 years' experience in business and management education as lecturer, course developer, manager, external examiner and consultant. He is a Senior Lecturer in Tourism and Events Management at Liverpool John Moores University.
Anthony Sturgess has almost 20 years' experience in the teaching, facilitation and coaching of managers and leaders, ranging from individual leadership and management development to leading organizational change. He is currently a Senior Lecturer in Leadership at Manchester Metropolitan University.
Together, they co-founded Apex Leadership, where they develop innovative and challenging management and leadership development interventions.
In this Book
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Uncommon Leadership—How to Build Competitive Advantage by Thinking Differently
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Foreword
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Preface
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Introduction—The Uncommon Sense of Leadership
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Leading with Vision—Seeing the Sense before it Becomes Common
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Leading with Action—Shaping the Organization by Turning Sense into Common Sense
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Leading with Purpose—Showing the Way by Doing the Common Things Uncommonly Well
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Leading with Service—Serving Colleagues and Customers through Common Touch Leadership
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Leading with People—Sharing Leadership by Making it More Common
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Conclusion—Building Competitive Advantage through Uncommon Leadership Roles
