How do leaders learn to lead? How do leaders set themselves up for success? This book explores the real-life experiences of a wide variety of leaders from different industries, sectors, and countries to bring to light new lessons on the importance of life-long learning.
Consisting primarily of a series of probing interviews, Good Leaders Learn presents the challenges, triumphs, and reflections of 31 senior and high-profile leaders, offering insight into how they learned to lead during their careers. The book pulls important and useful perspectives into a robust theoretical framework that includes the importance of innate curiosity, challenging oneself, risk-taking, and other key elements of good leadership.
With practical insights complemented by the latest leadership research and theory, this book will help current and potential leaders to build a solid foundation of the leadership qualities vital to their continuing success.
1. Introduction 2. Leadership Character 3. Learning to Lead 4. The Interviews 5. John Furlong (President and CEO, Vancouver Olympic Committee; and Executive Chair of the Vancouver Whitecaps) 6. N. R. Narayana Murthy (Founder, CEO and Chairman Emeritus, Infosys) 7. Elyse Allan (President and CEO, General Electric Canada) 8. Daniel Akerson (Chairman and CEO, General Motors) 9. Cassie Campbell-Pascall (Captain, Canadian Women's Hockey Team) 10. Barbara Stymiest (Chairman, BlackBerry) 11. Rahul Bhardwaj (President and CEO, Toronto Community Foundation) 12. Carol Stephenson (Dean, Richard Ivey School of Business) 13. Michael Harris (22nd&l#ç
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