True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership (J-B Warren Bennis Series) | Bill George

True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership (J-B Warren Bennis Series) | Bill George | True North

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	True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership (J-B Warren Bennis Series) Bill George Jossey-Bass, 2007 - 288 pages average customer review:based on 35 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

True North shows how anyone who follows their internal compass can become an authentic leader. This leadership tour de force is based on research and first-person interviews with 125 of today?s top leaders?with some surprising results. In this important book, acclaimed former Medtronic CEO Bill George and coauthor Peter Sims share the wisdom of these outstanding leaders and describe how you can develop as an authentic leader. True North presents a concrete and comprehensive program for leadership success and shows how to create your own Personal Leadership Development Plan centered on five key areas: Knowing your authentic self Defining your values and leadership principles Understanding your motivations Building your support team Staying grounded by integrating all aspects of your life

True North offers an opportunity for anyone to transform their leadership path and become the authentic leader they were born to be.

Personal, original, and illuminating stories from Warren Bennis, Sir Adrian Cadbury, George Shultz (former U.S. secretary of state), Charles Schwab, John Whitehead (Cochairman, Goldman Sachs), Anne Mulcahy (CEO, Xerox), Howard Schultz (CEO, Starbucks), Dan Vasella (CEO, Novartis), John Brennan (Chairman, Vanguard), Carol Tome (CFO, Home Depot), Donna Dubinsky (CEO/cofounder, Palm), Alan Horn (President, Warner Brothers), Ann Moore (CEO, Time, Inc.) and many others illustrate the transitions that shape the type of leaders who will thrive in the 21st century.

Bill George (Cambridge, MA) has spent over 30 years in executive leadership positions at Litton, Honeywell, and Medtronic. As CEO of Medtronic, he built the company into the world?s leading medical technology company as its market capitalization increased from $1.1 billion to $60 billion. Since 2004, he has been a professor at the Harvard Business School. His 2004 book Authentic Leadership (0-7879-7528-1) was a BusinessWeek bestseller. Peter Sims (San Francisco, CA) established ?Leadership Perspectives,? a course on leadership development at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and cofounded the London office of Summit Partners, a leading investment firm.

Their Web site is www.truenorthleaders.com.

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the need for authenticity

"True North"- Discover your authentic leadership"- the mere title grabbed me .
Perhaps there is an inherent desire for people to be truthful and to seek true direction.

The book has an appeal for everyone. Everyone is in some way a leader. This book is most assuredly one for anyone.

During a recent hospitalization my surgeon told me the title of the book he was reading .He said it was "fascinating" . He said he gets up at 5:45a.m. to read a portion each morning.
When I was home and able to get to the computer I ordered it.

It is broken down into segments. It can be used as a periodic but ongoing exercise to improve one's lifestyle. It can confirm, correct and/or inspire.

My overall impression was - being a good example is "powerful", contrary to- being "powerful" is a good example.

As soon as my son returns the book- I will read it again. My hairdresser
wanted to borrow it as well.

My doctor was right- it is a fascinating book.

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True North

One of the greatest books ever written on Leadership. Not just in leading others but a true book on how to lead yourself. If you cannot lead you, no one will follow you. True leadership is defined by your ability to turn those under you into leaders themselves. True North also helps define where you are in your every day process, how to recognize those distractions that sometime seem like opportunities, that really only take you off of your True Course and destiny.

No One Can Be An Authentic and Effective Leader By Trying To Be Someone Other Than Themselves

One of America's most successful executives Bill George (Medtronic) and Peter Sims provide, in "True North," us with a manual on "how-to" discovering and build on our unique and authentic leadership story. Their approach is based on what is most important to you, your most cherished values, your passions and motivations, the sources of satisfactions in your life. Your "True North," according to the authors, is the internal compass that guides you successfully through life and helps you stay on track. When aligned with one's True North, one finds coherence between their life story and their capacity to lead.

George and Sims interviewed 125 leaders, ages 23 to 93, from many walks of life as foundation for "True North." All interviewed described a turning point in their lives - a crucible - that transformed them into the leaders they are today. There are over 100 such stories in this book including those of Howard Schultz, George Shultz, David Gergen, Charles Schwab, Andrea Jung, and Wendy Kopp. Their leadership success emerges from their life story.

These stories point out the reality "that no one can be authentic by trying to be like someone else." Leaders are defined by their unique life stories and the way they frame their stories to discover their passions and the purpose of their leadership.

The book is segmented into three major sections: I., Leadership is a Journey; II., Discover Your Authentic Leadership; and III., Empowering People to Lead. A practical five-part program is outlined in Section II for developing one's best self and shows how authenticity and integrity shape great leadership. This five part development program includes:

* Knowing yourself
* Practicing your values and principles
* Learning what motivates you
* Building a support team
* Staying grounded and integrating your life

"True North" not only provides a path for authentic leadership but highlights why this type of leadership is both necessary and wanted...it is about a very different kind of leader, one who is ethically grounded, one that we can be proud to follow. Ethically grounded leadership is possible and it is, most often, the most effective (authentic) leadership of all.

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Very Good

I particularly enjoyed reading about the different leaders highlighted in this book. I liked that the authors included leaders from so many different walks of life and illustrated both their triumphs and defeats. This book is a really good resource for leaders in any industry, leadership scholars, and students of leadership.

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