 Bill George
Management and Leadership
Best Selling Author, True North
and 7 Lessons for Leading in Crisis
7 Lessons for Leading in Crisis receives a 800 CEO-READ Business Book Award of 2009
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Leading Through Crisis
Drawing on his own experience as former CEO of Medtronic, Board Director for Goldman Sachs, ExxonMobil, Novartis and Target, and currently Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School, Bill will share his 7 lessons for leading in crisis and how you can apply them in your own organization in times of crisis……..and in times of revitalization. They include:
Face Reality, Starting with Yourself
Don’t Be Atlas, Get the World Off Your Shoulders
Dig Deep for the Root Cause
Get Ready for the Long Haul
Never Waste a Good Crisis
You’re in the Spotlight; Don’t Lose Track of True North
Go on Offense, Focus on Winning
True North: Discover your Authentic Leadership
An enormous leadership vacuum exists today - in business, politics, government, education, religion, and nonprofit organizations. Yet there is no shortage of people with the capacity for leadership. The problem is that we have a wrongheaded notion of what constitutes a leader, driven by an obsession with leaders at the top. That misguided standard often results in the wrong people attaining critical leadership roles.
Given the growing leadership crisis, it has become increasingly evident that a new kind of business leader is needed in the 21st century. In 2003, Bill George's bestselling book, Authentic Leadership, challenged the new generation of leaders to lead authentically. The feedback from readers, including many CEOs, was that they had a tremendous desire to be authentic leaders and many of them asked how they could become such a leader.
True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership uses face-to-face research on the lives of 125 authentic leaders to demonstrate conclusively how readers can become authentic leaders. These interviews constitute the largest in-depth study of leadership development ever undertaken. The interviewees discussed openly and honestly how they developed their leadership, and candidly shared their life stories, personal struggles, failures, and triumphs. |
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