Neculai Fantanaru
Everything Depends On The Leader
Everything Depends On The Leader
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Original title: The 63 Qualities of a Leader
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This volume is a sum of clear qualities, practical and efficient absolutely necessary in leadership. It took me a while to understand that they are the basis of solid principles, and to be aware of their true value. I was helped by a lot of people of high professional and moral quality, with extensive experience and many achievements to whom I owe a deep gratitude. In this way I want to thank all those who were with me, guiding me with advice throughout the completion of this book.
Why read this book? Because it is critical to optimizing your performance. Just as a sculptor manages to shape, with a finesse and a particular skill, a figure, until he will make it worthy of all admiration - so you have to shape constructively your thinking, beliefs, perceptions, approaches, until you will succeed to improve your directorial performances and be an example to be followed in the organization that you belong.
Why I recommend this book? Firstly, because it focuses more on the human side than on the concept of business, which allows easy reading and understanding; then, because it reveals the main coordinates after that are build the character and skills of the leaders, highlighting what it is important for them to increase their influence.
Just as doctors must unthread the tangly threads of the illness, to know what questions to ask the patients to recognize the subtle physical clues and identify tests that could ultimately lead to the perfect diagnosis - so you have to unthread the way you can get the best results, to unlock your leadership potential and, ultimately, to operate at maximum capacity.
If you want to be a person to lead others and to guide an organization to success, then you must be more than a good practitioner, you must learn to establish relationships, to develop and maintain them constantly at high levels. Leadership is an alchemy that combines your human skills with your professional capacities in order to use your full potential and to transform it in "gold".
Why read this book? Because it is critical to optimizing your performance. Because it reveals the main coordinates after that are build the character and skills of the leaders, highlighting what it is important for them to increase their influence.
The essential characteristic of this book in comparison with others on the market in the same domain is that it describes through examples the ideal competences of a leader. I never claimed that it's easy to become a good leader, but if people will...
For some leaders, "leading" resembles more to a chess game, a game of cleverness and perspicacity; for others it means a game of chance, a game they think they can win every time risking and betting everything on a single card.
I wrote this book that conjoins in a simple way personal development with leadership, just like a puzzle, where you have to match all the given pieces in order to recompose the general image.
The aim of this book is to offer you information through concrete examples and to show you how to obtain the capacity to make others see things from the same angle as you.
Without considering it a concord, the book is representing the try of an ordinary man - the author - who through simple words, facts and usual examples instills to the ordinary man courage and optimism in his own quest to be his own master and who knows... maybe even a leader.
