Leadership Effectiveness

"Leadership Effectiveness" serves as a guide for a leader to learn how to become more efficient in leading followers. In order to increase one's leadership effectiveness, leaders need to put a focus on the "LEAD" in leadership. A leader at any level of leadership can engage in developing their personal leadership effectiveness by understanding how to Lead through Evaluation, Action, and Direction (LEAD). This compilation of leadership commentaries emphasizes taking a concrete approach in identifying and developing methods for a leader to effectively Lead through the implementation of proven applied ideas and behaviors. The practical Evaluation and application (Action and Direction) of leadership constructs and skills discussed in this book include a myriad of topics relevant to leadership effectiveness involving trust, motivation, sustainability, ethics, empowerment, total quality management, humility, effective leadership behaviors and much more. This book provides a proven pragmatic and effective leadership formula developed over 40 years of teaching, research and application in practical methods for developing and improving one's leadership effectiveness. By applying the concepts revealed in these leadership commentaries, leaders will become more effective at securing commitment from their followers.
The Management Research Group's (MRG) highly validated leadership effectiveness analysis (LEA) tool, taken by over two million individuals worldwide, is also explored and applied to the leadership role in the form of twenty-two specific leadership effectiveness behaviors.
The words of the legendary Nobel Prize winning writer Ernest M. Hemingway says it best in terms of why a leader should focus on improving one's personal effectiveness via LEAD as described in this book. Hemingway says - "There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility lies in being superior to your former self."