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    Uplifting Leadership: How Organizations, Teams, and Communities Raise Performance
    Uplifting Leadership: How Organizations, Teams, and Communities Raise Performance
    Uplifting Leadership: How Organizations, Teams, and Communities Raise Performance
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    Uplifting Leadership: How Organizations, Teams, and Communities Raise Performance

    By Andy Hargreaves, Alan Boyle and Alma Harris

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    What does it take to do more with less? How can you do better than before, or better than others? How do you turn losses into wins, or near-bankruptcy into strong profitability, or abject failure into stellar success?

    The power of uplift enables any organization to do more with less, beat the competition, and perform better than ever. Leaders who uplift their employees' passions, intellects, and commitments produce remarkable results.

    Based on original research from a seven-year global study, Uplifting Leadership reveals how leaders from diverse organizations inspired and uplifted their teams' performance. Distilling the six common characteristics of leaders at high-performing organizations across business, sports, and education, authors Andy Hargreaves, Alan Boyle, and Alma Harris explore the nature of uplift, its impact on performance, and the ways to achieve it within and beyond an organization's walls, revealing how leaders:

    • Identify and articulate an inspiring dream that is coherently connected to the best of what the organization has been before
    • Pursue that dream at a sustainable pace without squandering resources, incurring excessive debt, or burning people out
    • Forge paths of innovation and improvement that others have overlooked or rejected
    • Monitor progress by using metrics and indicators in a mindful and meaningful way
    • Build teams that naturally pull people into change rather than pushing them through it

    Featuring case studies of organizations as diverse as Shoebuy.com, Fiat, Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, Marks & Spencer, Cricket Australia, Burnley Football Club, and the Vancouver Giants, as well as world-leading educational systems, Uplifting Leadership provides tools for leaders to incorporate these performance-driving strategies into their own.

    For leaders who want their people to try harder, transform what they do, reach for a higher purpose, and stay resolute and resilient when opposing forces threaten to defeat them, Uplifting Leadership provides a path to better performance across any organization.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWiley
    Release dateJun 4, 2014
    ISBN9781118921340

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      Uplifting leadership, as described by the authors, is about achieving beyond expectations. Uplifting leaders ignite the emotional, spiritual, and social powers of teams, organizations, and communities to improve performance and results. Based on their research of organizations in business, education, and sports, the authors identify six factors that comprise the uplifting leadership process. A key emphasis of the model is harnessing the energy generated by the tension between “hard” and “soft” skills. According to this model, leadership is about managing paradoxes. To create lift leaders must balance dreaming with action, creativity with discipline, collaboration with competition, pushing with pulling, measurement with meaningfulness, and quick wins with sustainable success. The writing is clear and the authors provide many examples of their principles applied in a variety of settings. Yet there is little that is new for those familiar with leadership literature. The authors reinforce what many other researchers have already explained. A good book that provides additional research and another model to support a holistic approach to leadership.

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