Leadership A to Z: A Guide for the Appropriately Ambitious (Jossey Bass Business & Management Series) Hardcover – Import, 1 September 1999

I'd never heard of this, but I got it used on audio CD because it was going cheap. Very glad I did! It has lots of interesting anecdotes, and the points are succinctly put.- Apologia.- Brownian Motivation - Challenging, stretching & overcoming resistance to change- Change - The Task of leadership.- COMMUNICATION- CONVICTION.- Definition of Leadership: create followers.- DETAILS.- Effectiveness - the “sine qua non” of Leadership- Fear and Failure - leadership requires deep reservoirs of courage.- Getting Started. - Where do I start?- How To Create Followers: INCLUSION in the process of change.- Iteration & Institutionalisation. Johnson & Johnson, 1982 Tylenol crisis.- Joint Leadership - "none of us is as smart as all of us".- KISS (aka: simplicity) - "In Search of Excellence" - Peters & Waterman.- Leaders -- LISTENING.- Management of Change vs. 'Strategic Leadership'- Needs of Followers (i.e. listening) by articulating followers' needs.- Obsession- Power - the Currency of organisational life is influencing others- PURPOSE- Questions (asking)- Reframing- RESILIENCE.- Sound Bites- SYMBOLISM.- Up & Out (and sideways) - teaching your peers, persuading others- Vision - visualising better conditions or circumstances than exist at present- Why Leaders Won't Lead - Titular authority vs. true leaders- X-Factor: Leadership!- You, the Leader: modelling the traits.- Zenith

This work is a solid effort to cover many topics of leadership in 300 pages. It's always a tough task with such an important and huge topic. I'm not sure there was much original work since the author used real life leadership examples to demonstrate the points he was trying to make. I would say this book would be good for a new manager to study.