The Manager As Leader

After two decades of corporate downsizings and rightsizings the invisible line separating leaders from followers has been forever blurred. In the wake of this sea change businesses are faced with three fundamental challenges: How can an organization elicit leadership from everyone? How can those who choose to lead influence others to perform more effectively and efficiently? How can leaders continue to be successful when the environment in which they lead is constantly changing? The Manager as Leader presents practical strategies tools and techniques for developing the leadership mindset and applying it on a daily basis. The book introduces the Contextual Leadership Model which identifies nine fundamental leadership roles and six common contexts in which leadership is exercised and guides readers towards matching their roles and actions to the particular context at hand. It also shows readers how to anticipate changes in context and adjust their roles and actions.