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1 online resource |
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Includes index. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
Based on original research from a seven-year global study, this book reveals how leaders from diverse organizations inspired and uplifted their teams' performance. Distilling the six common characteristics of leaders at high-performing organizations across business, sports, and education, the authors explore the nature of uplift, its impact on performance, and the ways to achieve it within and beyond an organization's walls, revealing how leaders: identify and articulate an inspiring dream that is coherently connected to the best of what the organization has been before; pursue that dream at a sustainable pace without squandering resources, incurring excessive debt, or burning people out; forge paths of innovation and improvement that others have overlooked or rejected; monitor progress by using metrics and indicators in a mindful and meaningful way; and build teams that naturally pull people into change rather than pushing them through it. -- Edited summary from book. |
| Contents |
Uplifting Leadership: How Organizations, Teams, and Communities Raise Performance; Copyright; Contents; Introduction: Uplift; Emotional and Spiritual Uplift; Social and Community Uplift; Uplifting Performance; Investigating Uplift; What Uplifting Leadership Is NOT; Uplifting Leadership; 1. Dreaming with Determination; 2. Creativity and Counter-Flow; 3. Collaboration with Competition; 4. Pushing and Pulling; 5. Measuring with Meaning; 6. Sustainable Success; The Uplifting Journey; Chapter 1: Dreaming with Determination; Dreaming and Believing; Dreaming and Daring; Dreaming and Doing. |
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ConclusionChapter 2: Creativity and Counter-Flow; Opposite Approach; Against the Grain; Teach Less, Learn More; Entranced Not Entrenched; Conclusion; Chapter 3: Collaboration with Competition; Opposites Attract; Co-opetition; Uplifting Federations; Collaborative Edge; Conclusion; Chapter 4: Pushing and Pulling; Pulling Together; Pushing Each Other; Commonwealth; Sticking Together; Peer Pressure; Conclusion; Chapter 5: Measuring with Meaning; Data World; Dark Data; Data Minding; Testing Times; Conclusion; Chapter 6: Sustainable Success; Staying Up; Nonsustainability. |
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1. False Starts and Recoveries2. Hubris and Complacency; 3. Killing the Competition; Finnish Lessons; 1. Firm Foundations; 2. Feasible Growth; 3. The Long and Short of Improvement; Conclusion; Chapter 7: Uplifting Action; The Quest for Uplift; Elevation, Not Elation; Down to Earth; 1. Dreaming with Determination; 2. Creativity and Counter-Flow; 3. Collaboration with Competition; 4. Pushing and Pulling; 5. Measuring with Meaning; 6. Sustainable Success; Staying Aloft; Appendix: Research Methodology; Notes; Acknowledgments; The Authors; Index. |
| Subject |
Leadership.
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Organizational effectiveness.
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Leadership |
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Leadership. |
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Efficacité organisationnelle. |
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Leadership |
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Organizational effectiveness |
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Management. |
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Business & Economics. |
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Management Styles & Communication. |
| Added Author |
Boyle, Alan, 1945-
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Harris, Alma, 1958-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Hargreaves, Andy. Uplifting leadership. San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, 2014 9781118921326 (DLC) 2014013591 |
| ISBN |
9781118921333 (electronic bk.) |
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111892133X (electronic bk.) |
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9781118921340 (electronic bk.) |
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1118921348 (electronic bk.) |
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(hardback) |
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