Good Leaders Learn

Lessons from Lifetimes of Leadership
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-415-65976-5
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 412 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 887 g

How do leaders learn to lead? How do leaders set themselves up for success? This book explores the real-life experiences of a wide variety of leaders from different industries, sectors, and countries to bring to light new lessons on the importance of life-long learning.

Consisting primarily of a series of probing interviews, Good Leaders Learn presents the challenges, triumphs, and reflections of 31 senior and high-profile leaders, offering insight into how they learned to lead during their careers. The book pulls important and useful perspectives into a robust theoretical framework that includes the importance of innate curiosity, challenging oneself, risk-taking, and other key elements of good leadership.

With practical insights complemented by the latest leadership research and theory, this book will help current and potential leaders to build a solid foundation of the leadership qualities vital to their continuing success.

Zielgruppe

General

Autoren/Hrsg.

Seijts, Gerard

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensführung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction 2. Leadership Character 3. Learning to Lead 4. The Interviews 5. John Furlong (President and CEO, Vancouver Olympic Committee; and Executive Chair of the Vancouver Whitecaps) 6. N. R. Narayana Murthy (Founder, CEO and Chairman Emeritus, Infosys) 7. Elyse Allan (President and CEO, General Electric Canada) 8. Daniel Akerson (Chairman and CEO, General Motors) 9. Cassie Campbell-Pascall (Captain, Canadian Women's Hockey Team) 10. Barbara Stymiest (Chairman, BlackBerry) 11. Rahul Bhardwaj (President and CEO, Toronto Community Foundation) 12. Carol Stephenson (Dean, Richard Ivey School of Business) 13. Michael Harris (22nd Premier of Ontario; Senior Business Advisor Cassels Brock & Blackwell LLP) 14. Arkadi Kuhlman (President, CEO and Chairman ING Direct USA; Founder and CEO ZenBanx) 15. Linda Hasenfratz (President and CEO, Linamar Corporation) 16. Steve Snyder (President and CEO, TransAlta) 17. John Cheh (Vice-Chair and CEO, the Esquel Group) 18. Michael McCain (President and CEO, Maple Leaf Foods) 19. Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw (Chairman and Managing Director, Biocon Limited) 20. Michael Shindler (Executive Vice President Hotel and Casinos, Hard Rock Café) 21. Chaviva Hosek (President and CEO, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research; Professor at the School of Public Policy and Governance) 22. Lieutenant General (ret.) Russel L. Honoré (Commander of Joint Task Force Katrina) 23. Robert Bell (President and CEO, University Health Network) 24. Eileen Mercier (Chairman, Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan) 25. Purdy Crawford (Counsel, Osler, Hoskin & Harcourt LLP) 26. Charles Brindamour (President and CEO, Intact Financial Corporation) 27. Amit Chakma (President and Vice-Chancellor, Western University) 28. Jody Wilson-Raybould (Regional Chief British Columbia Assembly of First Nations) 29. Gautam Thapar (CEO and Chairman, the Avantha Group) 30. Umran Beba (President, PepsiCo Asia Pacific) 31. Antoni Cimolino (Artistic Director, Stratford Festival of Canada) 32. Sukhinder Singh-Cassidy (Founder and Chairman, JOYUS) 33. Chip Wilson (Founder, Lululemon Athletica) 34. George Cope (President and CEO, Bell Canada Enterprises) 35. The Right Honourable Paul Martin (21st Prime Minister of Canada) 36. Reflections on the Interviews 37. Conclusions on Learning to Lead 38. Leadership Insights for the Next Generation of Leaders

Über Autor(innen)

Gerard Seijts is the Executive Director of the Ian O. Ihnatowycz Institute for Leadership and holds the Ian O. Ihnatowycz Chair in Leadership at the Ivey Business School at Western University, Canada.