Unusually Excellent

The Necessary Nine Skills Required for the Practice of Great Leadership

Jossey-Bass, 2011

15 mins. de lectura

10 ideas fundamentales

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Superb – “unusually excellent” – leadership involves three core values and nine basic skills, including elements such as authenticity, vision and trustworthiness. Leadership consultant John Hamm analyzes and presents these qualities in an expert, inspirational and engaging manner. At times, the author uses offensive language to make his points, which hardly seems necessary in this otherwise worthy book. With appreciation for the author’s passion, as well as his leadership savvy, getAbstract recommends this insightful guide to aspiring and experienced leaders.

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Get Back to Basics

TaylorMade-adidas Golf manufactures high-quality golf equipment and operates a well-known golf performance center, “The Kingdom,” in Carlsbad, California. Top golf professionals work with swing coaches and order clubs built to their individualized requirements. The Kingdom features “high-speed digital cameras, launch monitors, lasers and computers” to help great golfers improve. Yet most professional golfers start out at the Kingdom by hitting practice shots under their coaches’ tutelage. They focus on fundamentals – “grip, stance, posture, ball position and aim.” The world’s greatest golfers practice the same golf basics as beginners.

Leadership also depends on mastering the basics, a “legacy of values” based on having personal “credibility,” professional “competence” and an awareness of “consequences,” that is, how leaders’ actions affect other people far down the line. Leaders who exercise this legacy inherently earn the right and authority to lead. Each character trait draws on three skills, to make up a set of nine essential basics of leadership.

Credibility: “Earning the Right to Lead Through Character”

Credible leaders are “authentic...

About the Author

John Hamm is a leadership expert with experience as a CEO, board member, investor, executive coach, CEO adviser and professor at the Leahy School of Business at Santa Clara University.

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J. S. 1 decade ago

nothing particularly new or revolutionary in this but nicely packaged and makes sense -logically and emotionally. A good abstract for auding ones own performance and seeing the common sense advice proffered is already your common practise!

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