Leadership For Colonels And Business Managers: Jump-Start Your Team And Yourself

An authoritative guide to help you leaders and managers get the best out of your teams. A well-established practitioner puts across knowledge and techniques critical for middle managers - all in a racy, reader-friendly style. Daily leadership based on organizational behaviour and group dynamics. You can learn to lead as well as to manage. - Would you much rather be loved or respected? - Can you lead and delegate as per the capabilities of the follower? - Do you decide by intuition or by using Game Theory techniques? - Do you know that too much synergy, consensus and motivational gimmicks are harmful? Col Alok Asthana shares observations from a distinguished, 42-year career in military command, teaching, industry and consultancy. How many consultants you know can boast of such wide hands-on experience as well as academic knowledge? Backed by researches in organizational behavior and group dynamics, these 'How to', 'Why' and 'Why not' hacks will change your leadership and management style forever. The book covers essential knowledge and techniques for the one-to-one processes between the leader and team, the one-to-many group processes, organization development, leader behaviour, better thinking & decision making and finally, topics of specific interest to the combat leader. Not bromides and cliches, but specific step-by-step guidance that helps teams in military and business alike. The book has a real-world touch and demolishes many myths. Each chapter is a stand-alone; complete and useful by itself. Numerous anecdotes, analogies and quotes make the book racy and lively reading. Grab it and race ahead of the pack. Follow these instructions and the men will literally die for you.

• | Author: Colonel Alok Asthana
• | Publisher: Notion Press, Inc.
• | Publication Date: Apr 03, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 262 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1642494356
• | ISBN-13: 9781642494358