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Your Leadership Story

Use Your Story to Energize, Inspire, and Motivate

Timothy J. Tobin
Berrett-Koehler, 2015

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Negative stories about corporate leaders can damage their reputations and undermine their leadership impact. Leaders can’t lead without their colleagues’ regard. Monitor what people think of you, and be ready to replace whispered negative hearsay with positive facts. Prepare to tell a good “leadership story” about yourself in words and deeds. Marriott vice president and leadership development expert Timothy J. Tobin teaches you how to develop and convey your story. His worksheets, self-questions and resource appendix are very useful. Although some of his ideas may seem hard to implement – like asking your colleagues to assess your leadership and finding ways through your actions to tell a great story about yourself without blowing any faint reputation for a respectable level of humility – his message is solid: Leadership isn’t something you just do; it is something you must reflect on carefully. getAbstract recommends his advice to emerging and experienced leaders and to those who want to know more about how to shape their reputation.

Take-Aways

  • “Your leadership story is the collection of events, perspectives and behaviors that represent who you are as a leader.”
  • Every leader has a leadership story, whether good or bad.
  • Be the author of your own leadership story. Don’t let anyone else define it.

About the Author

Timothy J. Tobin is VP of global learning and leadership development at Marriott International.

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    A. 6 years ago
    Showing people who you are is more reliable than trying to tell people who you are. I enjoyed reading this summary.
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    M. M. 6 years ago
    Great content! Be the author of your own leadership story . Keep always aware of review and rewrite your story. And best of all, don’t let people write YOUR story, have the control and Own it! And as always, what you do is more important than what you say! <br>#getabstract #getmotivated
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    A. A. 6 years ago
    Very useful summary. 10-15 minutes of time to get the core of the book. No time to read every book so I like summary...learnt how story-telling important a leader.