Leadership the Hard Way
Why Leadership Can't Be Taught and How You Can Learn It Anyway
J-B Warren Bennis Series
1. Auflage Mai 2015
160 Seiten, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
Leadership the Hard Way presents a method of living and
working that can truly facilitate the learning of leadership. Their
method shows how to go against the current, fight conventional
wisdom, and embrace the unexpected. It is about trusting oneself
and valuing intuition, principles, and imagination as much as hard
skills and analysis. Frohman combines his counterintuitive ideas
with experiences from his own background?from escaping the Nazis as
a child to becoming a leading innovator in the semiconductor
industry?to show how readers can build their own leadership
abilities. A leader?s values and personality, he ultimately
reveals, are the only sure source of stability in a world of
continuous change.
Introduction: Flying Through a Thunderstorm xiii
1. Insisting on Survival 1
2. Leading Against the Current 17
3. Leveraging Random Opportunities 35
4. Leadership Under Fire 53
5. The Soft Skills of Hard Leadership 69
6. Making Values Real 85
7. Bootstrapping Leadership 99
Epilogue: Knowing When to Let Go 111
Notes 115
Acknowledgments 119
The Authors 123
Index 125
Robert Howard is a former senior editor of the Harvard Business Review. A veteran writer on work, technology, and management, he is the author of Brave New Workplace and the editor of The Learning Imperative: Managing People for Continuous Innovation.