What makes a good leader? Is it vision? Is it knowledge? Is it people management skills? Is it business management skills? After years of working with some brilliant and some not so brilliant leaders throughout the world Andrea W. Needham has identifi ed the one quality that is essential for effective leadership and that quality is courage.
Andrea W. Needham defines leadership courage as the courage to set and stand up for acceptable standards of management and leadership, and in particular, the need to address behaviour by peers at the senior and middle management levels. This focus is not only because employees in our organisations deserve competent and inspirational leadership, but also because the cost of toxicity
of incompetent management has a bottom line impact longer term.
Courage at the Top includes case-studies which reveal why courage is so essential in a good leader, and provides an action plan to help organisations appoint and foster leaders with the courage required to achieve the best possible outcomes. The author also demonstrates the damaging effects of incompetent mangers such as Cowards, Bullies, Jerks and Technocrats.
Written in an accessible style, the issues discussed in Courage at the Top are relevant to a wide range of organizations – from businesses of all sizes to school boards of trustees, multi-national companies and government departments. Employees will become empowered when they read that
many of the management behaviours that they observe and experience are simply not okay.
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