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True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership (J-B Warren Bennis Series) (精装)
by Bill George , Peter Sims , David Gergen (Foreword)
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Leadership |
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| MSL Pointer Review:
George and Sims see leadership as a quest, not a destination. This book is an excellent starting point for your journey toward authentic leadership. |
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Jeff Immelt (MSL quote), CEO, General Electric
<2007-06-14 00:00>
In True North, Bill George once again provides a roadmap for leadership in the 21st Century. The future belongs to leaders who want to win, without ever losing track of their own values. We live in a day when the best people can work anywhere. They will follow only authenticity - a person who leads with passion and purpose. |
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Andrea Jung (MSL quote), chairman and CEO, Avon Products, Inc.
<2007-06-14 00:00>
True North is about the power of authentic leadership. Great leaders are defined by a sense of passion and purpose and by a profound desire to make a difference. Anyone can find their own True North, if you care deeply and love what you do. This book is a wonderful roadmap for how to get started on the journey. |
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Jeff (MSL quote), USA
<2007-06-14 00:00>
The book is beautiful in its simplicty. The author divides leadership into various areas and discusses it. He brings in interview with other CEO's to give the chapter clarity. |
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Beaird (MSL quote), USA
<2007-06-14 00:00>
Bill George has a proven track record of ten years of superb CEO leadership of Medtronic. He and his staff have interivewed 125 of America's best CEO's.
He has put it altogether in TRUE NORTH. With the authority of his own experience and this extensive research, he has not only profiled true, authentic leadership but given us principles to lead with confidence and integrity. This work arrives just in time to influence American leadership so badly in need of redirection. His work will be a classic. |
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Erik (MSL quote), USA
<2007-06-14 00:00>
For many of us in HBS Section B 2005, (Bill George's first section teaching at Harvard Business School), the most valuable experience of our $120K education was learning from and engaging with Bill to examine the role of ethics, authenticity, and accountability in business leadership.
Bill was consistent, constantly challenging our preconcieved notions, asking hard questions that lead us to self-examination, and tirelessly engaging in our development. He came to class with a perspective on leadership born from an unmatched career at Medtronic, Honeywell, and the DoD. When Bill said "Your job as a leader is to define reality for your organization", reminded us to listen more than we talk, and encouraged us to spend at least 5-7 years with one company so that our own mistakes would have time to catch up with us, we listened.
Unfortunately, very few others will ever get the opportunity to sit in a section of 90 people with him. True North, and Authentic Leadership are the next best thing. Every business leader should have to read these books at the beginning of their career and then again every time they're up for promotion. |
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Thomas (MSL quote), USA
<2007-06-14 00:00>
George has made quite an evolution with his second book, True North. His first book, Authentic Leadership, was more a dissertation on his own leadership experience and ascension to the top post Medtronic. When he started to formulate thoughts on a second book with leadership guru Warren Bennis, Bennis advised him to look outward and share examples of real, authentic leaders in practice today.
George's second book, True North, is just that, a compilation of anecdotal and personal vignettes from leaders at all levels. The book uses the metaphor of a compass to illustrate how staying aligned to your internal "north" makes you more successful and ultimately, as the individual stories tell, more satisfied.
The writings are testaments to the fact that George is gracefully straddling stages six and seven of Bennis' Seven Ages of Leaders - namely The Statesman and The Sage. While George continues to sit on three high-powered boards - Goldman, Exxon and Novartis, he also has come full-circle in a sense and is actively sharing that "invaluable, often subtle information" as Bennis calls it with his HBS classes and with those leaders who aspire to have the kind of professional and personal satisfaction and achievement George has enjoyed.
Agreed, as the dust continues to settle from the wrongs perpetrated by Fastow, Kozlowski and the like, it is refreshing to hear George exclaim that morality and internal alignment do have a place in Corporate America and their corner offices. True North is a must read for aspiring leaders at all levels. |
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