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• Title:How leaders improve : a playbook for leaders who want to get better now / John Gates, PhD, Jeff Graddy, PhD, and Sacha Lindekens, PhD.
  
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• Author/Creator:Gates, John, 1962- author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Graddy, Jeff, author.
  Lindekens, Sacha, author.
  
• Published/Created:Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, [2017]
  

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  • Location:DAVID LAM LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: HD57.7 .G3778 2017
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Leadership.
  Communication in management.
  
• Medical Subjects: Leadership
  
• Description:viii, 180 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
  
• Summary:Written by a team of highly experienced and successful executive leadership consultants, this book offers 10 data-driven insights regarding leadership effectiveness, accompanied by practical and easy-to-implement recommendations that directly serve the development of leadership ability. * Provides insights based on a sample of leaders who improved significantly over time, supplying findings that are based on actual research, not just opinion or anecdotal "evidence" * Offers practical and applicable recommendations for how individual leaders, organizations, and coaches/managers can apply the 10 insights shared in the book * Provides a novel framework for determining and assessing who is "ripe" for a leadership development opportunity (the RIPEN model), an effective way for individuals or organizations to determine in which leadership candidates to invest precious development resources * Supplies strategies for enhancing one's ripeness for a leadership development opportunity.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781440860577 (hardcover)
  1440860572 (hardcover)
  9781440860584 (electronic book)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Why (and How) We Wrote This Book
  ch. 2 Ripeness (from the Inside Out)
  ch. 3 Ripeness (from the Outside In)
  ch. 4 Central Issue
  ch. 5 Penetrating Message
  ch. 6 Guiding Metaphor
  ch. 7 Critical Conversations
  ch. 8 Training Experience
  ch. 9 Social Support
  ch. 10 Keep It Real (with Yourself and Others)
  ch. 11 Focus on Strengths ... and Weaknesses
  ch. 12 Where We've Been and Where We're Going.