Inspired Leadership: How You Can Achieve Extraordinary Results in Business

248 Pages·2017·2.96 MB·English

by  Kevin Gaskell

CONTENTS
Cover
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright
Acknowledgements
About the Author
Introduction
Part One: Commit
Chapter 1: Dare to Dream
Being a Leader
Learning to Lead
Abandon 3% Thinking
Your Learning Starts Now
Note
Chapter 2: Build Belief
Rejecting the Status Quo
Shared Belief Gives Us Purpose
Sharing Belief in Change
Sharing the Passion
Belief Starts with You
Notes
Chapter 3: How Good Do You Want to Be?
Why are You Here?
Given, not Demanded
A Vision of the Future
Paint a Wall Red
Integrity is Inspiring
Inspiring Belief
Notes
Chapter 4: Make the Impossible Possible
Walking to the North Pole
Planning: If You're not an Expert, Find One
Preparation: Everyone Needs to Understand the Process
Support: You Can't do it on Your Own
Discipline: We Take Care of Each Other
Teamwork: Working Together is an Extraordinary Experience
Transcend Your Self-Imposed Limitations
Notes
Chapter 5: Confront the F Word
Fear of Flying
Fear of Losing
Fear of Creative Destruction
Fear of the First Step
“We're too Busy to Change”
“We're too Big to Change”
“We don't do it Like that Around Here”
The Whinge Wall
Notes
Part Two: Connect
Chapter 6: Begin at the End
It is Easy to Lose Your Way
The Problem of Short-Term Thinking
Interrogating the Business
Success in 360 Degrees
Creating Space to Dream
Notes
Chapter 7: A Simple Plan
From Planning to Fail to Planning to Succeed
You will Live by this Plan
Creating Ideas
Prioritize, Prioritize, Prioritize
Writing the Plan
Communicating the Plan
Planning a Culture of Success
It's a Plan, not a Tablet of Stone
Notes
Chapter 8: Don't Be a Genius, Make a Genius
Your Genius is Waiting for You
Geniuses are Made, not Born
Think Different
Where are Your Geniuses?
Notes
Chapter 9: Be Better First, Then Bigger
Being Better is a State of Mind
Being Better Means Thinking Big
Being Better is About Everything You do
Being Better is not About Spending Money
Being Better is Everyone's Job, All the Time
Notes
Chapter 10: In Command, Out of Control
Out of Control is Natural (and Good)
Teams Solve Your Problems
Good Leaders Delegate
Keep the Heartrate High
Notes
Part Three: Create
Chapter 11: Are We Having Fun Yet?
Work is Emotional
What is Fun?
How do We Create Fun?
Notes
Chapter 12: No One Is an “Only a . . .”
“Somebody Like You”
Our Instinct to Think “Only a . . .”
Good Ideas Come from Everywhere
Feedback is Golden
Getting Paid
The Hidden Value of Knowhow
Everyone in the Team Matters
Notes
Chapter 13: Catch In, Don't Catch Out
Blame Culture Undermines the Team
No Cover-Ups
Encourage Communication
Social Support
An Engine of Improvement
Notes
Chapter 14: Sustaining Success
Learning to Let Go
A New Broom
Energy Vampires and Doubters
Events
Impatience
Hanging on Too Long
Learning to Sustain Yourself
Make it Count
Notes
Afterword: Wait Until the Sun Comes Up
Bibliography
Index
End User License Agreement
“In Inspired Leadership, Gaskell passes along fantastic insights from
his personal experience of leading some of the world's great brands,
building new companies and revitalising stalled businesses. His
knowledge—often gained the hard way—helps leaders appreciate
that building an extraordinary team with ordinary people is simple,
but not easy. Inspired leaders recognise their own strengths and
weaknesses, provide continuous coaching and pay attention to their
team. Inspiring leaders encourage teams to share beliefs and strive
for common goals and in doing so they create something special and
successful and fun. Read this book and use the process to build your
own success”.
Marshall Goldsmith, World's #1 Leadership Thinker
“In any performance situation leadership is what makes the greatest
difference. Not only from the person designated as leader but when
displayed by everyone in the team. Inspired Leaders are those
special leaders able to ensure that every team member is engaged
and able to fully contribute their ideas and energy. Inspired
Leadership offers any leader, at any level, an indispensable guide to
ensuring their team perform at the top of their game every day”.
Sir Clive Woodward OBE, England Rugby World Cup Winning
Coach, Team GB Director
“The lessons in this book are applicable to any commercial sector, or
indeed any team. Working with Kevin we have applied his structured
approach to the music and entertainment industry. We have taken
his advice, tools and process and created a hugely successful
business of inspired musicians performing extraordinary music for
audiences all over the world”.
Chris White, Dire Straits, The Dire Straits Experience
“Teamwork is critical to success at the highest level. Team members
need leaders who see beyond the obvious and generate ideas with
wider reaching impact. Being part of implementing those ideas is
exciting. This is possible when Inspired Leadership is demonstrated
at all levels in the team. This book shows how to achieve this level of
inspiration and success in the real world”.
Lewis Moody MBE, England Captain, British and Irish Lions
Inspired Leadership
How You Can Achieve Extraordinary Results in
Business
Kevin Gaskell
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