Balanced Leadership: A Pragmatic Guide for Leading

We need effective leaders today more than ever before. In fact the root cause behind failed businesses and failed governments is usually either a lack of leadership or the presence of destructive or ineffective leadership. In this collection of dissertations on topics relevant to effective leadership youll be challenged to think. Along the way youll learn how to discover and clarify your mission vision and values; learn how to handle difficult people and situations; improve the performance of your people and teams; and communicate with coworkers customers and colleagues. Youll also learn about the leadershp continuum and its gradations and how to find the action behavior or decision that balances as best as possible benefits with costs. Balance is getting something just right. However since the world is always changing the sweet spot is always changing too. What was in balance yesterday may not be today. Like riding a bicycle we constantly need to monitor our positions and make adjustments to compensate for curves and bumps in the road. Make sound decisions build better teams communicate more effectively be appropriately flexible and be appropriately strong with the lessons examples and insights in Balanced Leadership.