The Leader's Digest: Timeless Principles for Team and Organization Success - Softcover

Leadership is a popular topic today because it's so central to personal, team, and organization success. This has led to a confusing multitude of leadership grids, charts, formulas, jargon, fads, charismatic stories, and buzzwords. Drawing on decades of research, extensive experience coaching and developing thousands of managers, and previous bestselling books, Jim Clemmer distills today's leadership information overload to its core essentials. The result is a series of insights and bite-sized briefings on the timeless principles of leading people, The Leader's Digest. "If you're looking for a book that illuminates the topic of leadership in a useful, readable, and lively way, this is it." Warren Bennis Distinguished Professor of Business, USC, and Co-author of GEEKS AND GEEZERS: How Era, Values and Defining Moments Shape Leaders "Easy to digest...presenting it in easily accessible snippets is a smart way to reach leaders who are usually busy, well, leading rather than reading." "Recommended Readings," Marketing Magazine "An incredibly readable and useful collection of wit and wisdom on today's most critical success factor - leadership." David Chilton, author The Wealthy Barber

In response to the phenomenal success of Growing the Distance, Jim Clemmer takes us to the next level of leadership development with The Leader's Digest. Here the timeless principles of personal or self-leadership described in Growing the Distance are extended to the wider context of leading others. It is, as Jim says, a matter of growing our leadership from “in here” to “out there.” Using the same uniquely readable format that contributed to its predecessor's success, The Leader's Digest provides a wealth of quotations, anecdotes, and insightful commentary, all designed to enrich and inform anyone who is responsible for leading people – whether in a small workgroup or a huge multinational corporation.Leadership is widely recognized as a key factor in the success of an organization, with the result that a huge “leadership industry” has developed, featuring a multitude of theories and models, as well as a confusing array of grids, charts, formulas, and buzzwords. Now, with The Leader's Digest, bestselling author Jim Clemmer has drawn from his decades of research and management-development experience to distill all of this information down to its essentials.For anyone who wants to get to the heart of understanding leadership, The Leader's Digest is a must-read.