Gareth Jones

Rob Goffee

Are you an authentic leader? Too many companies are managed not by leaders but by mere role players and faceless bureaucrats. What would it take to replace these empty suits with real leaders--men and women who are confident in who they are and what they stand for and who truly inspire people to achieve extraordinary results? Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones argue that leaders don't become great by aspiring to a list of universal character traits. Rather, effective leaders are authentic: they deploy individual strengths to engage followers' hearts, minds, and souls. Authentic leaders are skillful at consistently being themselves, even as they alter their behavior to respond effectively to changing contexts. In short, the authors present a powerful case: that it takes "being yourself, in context, with skill" to be a successful, authentic leader--and they show you how to do exactly that. In this lively and practical book, Goffee and Jones draw from extensive research to reveal how to hone and deploy your unique leadership assets while managing the inherent tensions at the heart of successful leadership: when to show emotion and when to withhold it, how to get close to followers while maintaining an appropriate role distance, and maintaining your individuality while "conforming enough" to gain traction and lead change. Underscoring the inherently social nature of leadership, the book also explores how leaders can stay attuned to the needs and expectations of followers. Why Should Anyone Be Led by You? will forever change how we view, develop, and practice the art of leadership, wherever we live and work.

What It Takes to Be an Authentic Leader

Why Should Anyone Be Led by You? With a New Preface by the Authors

Imagine designing the best company on earth to work for . . . What would that company be like? How would you build and sustain it? As a leader, you need to know. In the past, businesses made people conform to the organization’s needs. But the old paradigm has shifted. Now leaders must transform their organizations so that they attract the right people, keep them, and inspire them to do their best work. How do you create a culture people want to belong to? In this powerful and necessary follow-up to the classic Why Should Anyone Be Led by You?, leadership and organizational sages Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones identify and illuminate the six key organizational attributes to do just that. In separate chapters, they delve deeply into each one: 1. Let people be themselves 2. Practice radical honesty 3. Magnify people’s strengths 4. Stand for authenticity (more than shareholder value) 5. Make work meaningful 6. Make simple rules With vivid stories and examples from global companies, the authors illustrate the kind of strong, attractive workplace culture that leads to sustained high performance. They also provide ways of assessing how your company is doing and describe the tensions and trade-offs that leaders must manage as they transform their organizations. Why Should Anyone Work Here? is the question all contemporary organizational leaders must constantly ask themselves if they want to survive and thrive in the new world. This book will help them answer that question.

What It Takes to Create an Authentic Organization

Why Should Anyone Work Here?

Coca-Cola, Disney, Nike, and Hewlett-Packard all have it: a positive corporate culture that powerfully affects their bottom line. Yet corporate culture remains the most underutilized weapon in business because most companies are intimidated by its intangibility, convinced of its secondary importance to the "harder" components of their strategic plans, or simply don't know how to assess culture or fix it. Drawing on 15 years of research and consulting with high-profile companies, The Character of a Corporation explores how a company's "character" can make the difference between short-term burnout and a sustainable long-term edge and how anyone, from senior-level executive to middle manager, can identify and thrive within their company's culture.

Character of a Corporation

N. Anand

Maury Peiperl

Michael Arthur

This work shows that careers and creativity are connected, both at the level of the individual and of the larger institutions. It explores models of creativity and careers and links them with examples from a range of professions, countries and industries.

Explorations in the Remaking of Work

Career Creativity

قالوا عن الكتاب: «كتاب رائع جداً، ويمتلك نجومية خاصة بين مجموعة الكتب المؤلفة عن القيادة. اقرؤوه وافهموا حكمته وستتعلمون أن تقودوا كما لم تفعلوا من قبل». جي إي. كونجر، مؤلف كتاب تنمية قادة شركتك وبناء القادة، وأستاذ السلوك المؤسساتي، في مدرسة لندن التجارية. يقدّم هذا الكتاب المهم دليلاً حكيماً وحساساً وعقلانياً كي تصبح القائد الأفضل من خلال زرع المعنى والهدف بعناية في حياة الأتباع. إنه الرسالة الصحيحة لأزمنتنا المضطربة ويجب أن يحظى باهتمام واسع. روزابيث موس كانتر، أستاذ إدارة الأعمال في إرست إل.أربكل، وكلية هارفارد لإدارة الأعمال، ومؤلف الكتاب الذي حقق أفضل المبيعات، الثقة: كيف تبدأ فترات الربح وفترات الخسارة وتنتهي. «تحليل عميق جاء إلى الحياة من خلال الإشارة إلى أشخاص حقيقيين ومواقف حقيقية ومليء بالكشوفات الرائعة حول القادة الفعالين والقيادة الفعالة». كيران سي. بوينتر، رئيس شركة برايسوترهاوسكوبرز إل إل بي. «كيف تكون قائداً أصيلاً؟» يمكن أن يساعدك على أن تستخرج صفة جوهرية لجميع القادة العظام: الأصالة. يذكّرنا هذا الكتاب الممتاز أن القيادة الحقيقية هي حول من أنت وليس حول ما تفعله فحسب. هرمنيا إبارا، أستاذة السلوك المؤسساتي، إنسيد. «في هذا الكتاب المدهش، قام الأستاذان جوفي وجوز بإزالة الحجب عن سحر القيادة العظيمة. فقصصهما ومنطقهما يحركوننا كي نرى كيف يمكن أن نكافح كي نكون أفضل ونلهم الآخرين. هذا كتاب يجب أن يقرأه جميع القادة أو الذين يريدون أن يكونوا قادة أو الذين يريدون أن يساعدوا الآخرين كي يصبحوا قادة». رتشارد بوياتزيس، أستاذ في جامعة كيس ويسترن ريزيرف، وشارك في تأليف الكتاب الذي حقق أفضل المبيعات: القيادة الأساسية والقيادة المستمرة. «روب جوفي وجاريث جونز يتحدياننا بسؤال جوهري يجب أن يطرحه جميع القادة على أنفسهم: «كيف تكون قائداً أصيلاً؟» يقدم هذا الكتاب وضوحاً وإضاءة وتوجيهاً حول ما يصنع قائداً حقيقياً ونحن بحاجة ماسّة إلى ذلك». جاري هاميل، مؤلف قيادة الثورة، واشترك في تأليف المنافسة من أجل المستقبل. العبيكان للنشر

Why Should Anyone Be Led by You?: What It Takes To Be An Authentic Leader

كيف تكون قائدًا أصيلًا : القيادة العظيمة تقتضي أن تكوِّن نفسك بمهارة

This Harvard Business Review digital collection showcases the ideas of Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones, authors of Why Should Anyone Be Led by You? and Why Should Anyone Work Here? In Why Should Anyone Be Led by You?, Goffee and Jones argue that leaders don’t become great by aspiring to a list of universal character traits. Rather, effective leaders are authentic: they deploy individual strengths to engage followers’ hearts, minds, and souls. In Why Should Anyone Work Here?, the authors argue that it used to be that businesses could ask individuals to conform to the organization’s needs but that now today’s leaders are charged with creating the best company on earth to work for: they must transform their organizations to attract the right people, keep them, and inspire them to do their best work.

Authentic Leadership and Organizations: The Goffee-Jones Collection (2 Books)

If your company is like most, it has a handful of people who generate disproportionate quantities of value: A researcher creates products that bankroll the entire organization for decades. A manager spots consumer-spending patterns no one else sees and defines new market categories your enterprise can serve. A strategist anticipates global changes and correctly interprets their business implications. Companies' competitiveness, even survival, increasingly hinge on such "clever people." But the truth is, clever people are as fiercely independent as they are clever-they don't want to be led. So how do you corral these players in your organization and inspire them to achieve their highest potential? In Clever, Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones offer potent insights drawn from their extensive research. The authors explain how to: -Identify your clever people and their motivations -Shelter your "clevers" from political distractions that can inhibit their productivity -Help clevers generate even more value by creating clever teams -Manage the unique tensions that can arise when clevers work together Leading clever people can be enormously challenging, yet doing so effectively is the key to your organization's sustained success. Lively and engaging, this book provides the ideas, practices, and examples you need to create an environment where your most brilliant people can flourish.

Leading Your Smartest, Most Creative People

Clever

Harvard Business Review

Herminia Ibarra

Bill George

What does it mean to be yourself at work? As a leader, how do you strike the right balance between vulnerability and authority? This book explains the role of authenticity in emotionally intelligent leadership. You'll learn how to discover your authentic self, when emotional responses are appropriate, how conforming to specific standards can hurt you, and when you need to feel like a fake. This volume includes the work of: Bill George Herminia Ibarra Rob Goffee Gareth Jones This collection of articles includes: "Discovering Your Authentic Leadership" by Bill George, Peter Sims, Andrew N. McLean, and Diana Mayer; "The Authenticity Paradox" by Herminia Ibarra; "What Bosses Gain by Being Vulnerable" by Emma Seppala; "Practice Tough Empathy" by Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones; "Cracking the Code That Stalls People of Color" by Sylvia Ann Hewitt; "For a Corporate Apology to Work, the CEO Should Look Sad" by Sarah Green Carmichael; and "Are Leaders Getting Too Emotional?" an interview with Gautam Mukunda and Gianpiero Petriglieri by Adi Ignatius and Sarah Green Carmichael. How to be human at work. The HBR Emotional Intelligence Series features smart, essential reading on the human side of professional life from the pages of Harvard Business Review. Each book in the series offers proven research showing how our emotions impact our work lives, practical advice for managing difficult people and situations, and inspiring essays on what it means to tend to our emotional well-being at work. Uplifting and practical, these books describe the social skills that are critical for ambitious professionals to master.

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