Clear Leadership: How Outstanding Leaders Make Themselves Understood, Cut through the Mush, and Help Everyone Get Real at Work Book

Today's fast-paced business environment demands managers with new interpersonal and leadership skills: an ability to get things done in the open, build real commitment to decisions, develop synergistic teams, openly discuss failures and successes, and learn from everyone's experience. CLEAR LEADERSHIP explores a fundamentally new way of thinking about people, human interaction, and the very nature of leadership to create a climate in which people are willing to speak and hear the truth, and workplace relationships are based on accurate understanding, not fantasies, company lore, and unexamined assumptions. Combating what Gervase Bushe calls interpersonal mush--a prevailing disorder that stifles learning, hampers collaborative teamwork, and closes down honest communication--CLEAR LEADERSHIP details the four skills that make partnership and leadership in groups possible. These four skills are self-awareness, so you know where you stand; descriptiveness, so you can communicate clearly; curiosity, so you can draw out others; and appreciation, so you can inspire top performance. Using true-to-life stories, practical exercises, and sample dialogues, Bushe identifies the barriers to truth telling and shows how to overcome them; explains exactly what clear leadership is, why it's important, and how it looks and sounds; and shows how to become more skilled at turning interpersonal clarity into action. CLEAR LEADERSHIP puts you on the road to improving your effectiveness as a leader.Read More