You should worry about your legacy later in your career, at the edge of retirement—right? Not according to Robert Galford and Regina Maruca. In Your Leadership Legacy, these authors argue that thinking about your legacy now makes you a better leader today. Based on stories of top leaders who have shaped successful careers, the book explores the art of "legacy thinking," helping you to formulate a legacy that will exert a positive effect on your work immediately. The authors provide a disciplined approach to framing your legacy, as well as shaping it over time. They start with the idea that your legacy is defined by how others approach work and life as a result of having worked with you. They then demonstrate how to assess your current impact on those around you, strengthen that impact, and pass along the best of yourself in the process. While many leaders "find themselves" and hone their work accordingly only after a major life crisis, Your Leadership Legacy enables all leaders to craft their work and build their legacy unburdened by such crises, and to experience personal satisfaction and achievement throughout their working lives.

Whatever your position, if you influence change in the lives of those around you, you are engaged in an act of leadership. And if you are a leader in any sense, you are creating a legacy as you live your daily life. Your leadership legacy is the sum total of the difference you make in people's lives, directly and indirectly, formally and informally. Will you consciously craft your legacy or simply leave it up to chance? What can you do to create a positive, empowering legacy that will endure and inspire?Your Leadership Legacy, the latest volume in the popular Ken Blanchard Series, is a parable that challenges leaders to take responsibility for the lasting impact their actions can have, for better or for worse. The authors spent five years speaking to a cross-section of men and women form all walks of life, asking them who had left an indelible impression in their lives and, more importantly, why. They drew on his research to develop three Leadership Imperatives that any leader can follow to create a lasting positive legacy. They reveal these imperatives through the story of Doug Roman. Doug is a brash, 30-something CEO, heir-apparent to a company called Mooseland Stoneware. He assumes he will just waltz into the job after the death of the former CEO, his beloved Aunt Nan. But Aunt Nan has a posthumous surprise for him. She leaves behind a detailed letter telling him that he must first embark on a journey to learn the leadership imperatives that will prepare him to live his leadership legacy. He can only become CEO if six months later, Mooseland's board unanimously agrees that he as indeed understood and begun to master these leadership imperatives. As readers accompany Doug, they learn that leaving a lasting legacy is about more than just professional values-they must demonstrate them by the way they live. While there are many books that help leaders define their values, there is little written to help them figure out how to live them courageously. Your Leadership Legacy shows leaders that the legacy they live is the legacy they leave."Your Leadership Legacy provides you with sound advice in helping make your life one that is whole, meaningful, and memorable. Read it, then read it again." -Harry Paul, co-author, FISH!: A Remarkable Way to Boost Morale and Improve Results

Uncover the latest developments in leadership development and coaching with insights from two of the most respected voices on the subject In this provocative book, leadership experts and authors of the best-selling The Leadership Challenge, Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner take on a unique challenge and explore questions of leadership and legacy. In 22 stand-alone chapters, Kouzes and Posner examine the critical questions all leaders must ask themselves before they can leave a lasting impact. These powerful essays are grouped into four categories: Significance, Relationships, Aspirations, and Courage. In each essay the authors consider a thorny and often ambiguous issue with which today’s leaders must grapple—such as how leaders serve and sacrifice, why leaders need loving critics, why leaders should want to be liked, why leaders can't take trust for granted, why it’s not just the leader’s vision that matters, why failure is always an option, why it takes courage to “make a life,” how to liberate the leader in everyone, and ultimately, how the legacy you leave is the life you lead. In the book, you’ll find: A free-flowing discussion of leadership topics and lessons Incisive explorations of ambiguous issues and paradoxes that have bedeviled leaders for generations Concise and to-the-point essays representing new approaches to familiar themes, new stories, and new experiences A Leader’s Legacy is an indispensable resource for managers, executives, and other business leaders looking for insightful new ways to push their leadership development further than they ever thought possible.

Our colleges and universities are being led in large part by baby boomers who are now in later midlife. Huge numbers of those middle-aged leaders will retire within the next 10 years. While we know that being in later midlife and impending retirement must influence a person in a leadership position at an institution of higher learning, we don’t really understand how. This book is based upon an empirical study that linked higher education leadership to one aspect of midlife known as generativity. This psychosocial phenomenon was described by Erik Erikson as a desire that peaks in midlife to leave something for future generations before one dies. Generativity typically manifests itself in the legacy one intends to leave. The author of this book has completed a multiple case study of women who are in later midlife and who hold high-level leadership positions at an institution of higher learning. In this work, she shares more than has ever been known about the nature, antecedents, and support of generativity in the leadership of female higher education leaders in midlife.

‘Leadership Legacies’ provides an invaluable reference point for senior executives or those striving towards a successful cross-border career, to understand how cultural differences impact upon leadership styles and practices. Each semester, we publish a report on our quantitative survey-based global study, alongside our review of extant in-country leadership literature, preferably written by local scholars and professionals in their native language. Moreover, we attempt to empirically validate these findings by conducting expert interviews with native specialists. This new issue of our ongoing leadership series presents country-specific analyses of culturally endorsed leadership practices and styles in the following countries or territories: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Faroe Islands, Honduras, Hungary, Japan, Laos, Monaco, Northern Cyprus, Republic of Seychelles and the Vatican. This publication contains contributions from around 122 researchers from 27 countries who participated in the Cross-Cultural Business Skills elective offered by the Part-time Academy of the Faculty of Business and Economics at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (HvA). Final Editors: Sander Schroevers and Christopher Higgings, Bibliographic editor Aynur Doğan. The following authors contributed: Adri Molenaar , Aimée Kitchen, Ali Abukhalifa, Alp Eren Sönmez, Arcadi Abas, Arlette Walter, Baptiste Rivière, Barbara Borsuková, Beau Wilmsen, Bernhard Nederveen, Bonne Kroese, Bram van Ooijen, Brandon Atkins, Brecht van der Wiel, Caroline van de Water, Cemile Haytaoğlu, Christoph Kleine, Clara Eggink, Daisy George, Daisy van der Veen, Damion de Best, Danique van der Teems, Davide Forapani, Debbie Keune, Dejan Ivković, Demi Pronk, Diantha Knaap, Dionne Vreeswijk, Djorden van Keulen, Dominique Hoogendoorn, Elena Bandini, Evelyn Tsai, Faruk Tutucu, Felix Schilder, Furgill Simons, Hamza El Daly, Hans van den Berg, Haruka Miyagi（宮城春花）Ignacio Colomina, Inti El-Bakari, Ismail Azmaa, Jack Chouinard, Jaime Garcia, Jana Beyram, Jason Bergen, Jeremy Hayer, Jesper Ebbelaar, Joey Hufman, Juliëtte van der Burg, Justin Schotte, Karim Slaby, Kenjiro van der Laan, Kim Konijn, Kim van Zundert, Ksenija Demidenko, Lars Quint, Laura Dayan, Lennart de Lange, Lisa Cornelissens, Lisa Zwaaneveld, Loek Driessen, Lotte Frowijn, Louis Grimblat, Mabèl Reichenfeld, Marian Osman, Marit Zijlmans, Marnick van der Meulen, Maximilian Meiners, Meike van Dijk, Melisa Tafa, Michelle Zwang, Milo Collazuol, Mitch van den Ende, Mohammed Khadhraoui, Mohammed Nour-Eddine Elhajoui Eljaafari, Mustafa Kirat, Nabil Azri, Naomi Daudu, Natália Horečná, Niccolò Crociani, Nikki Hopman, Noah Gerritsen, Noud van den Boer, Omar Alhaj Ali, Omar El Baradie, Patrick Klaghofer, Rafael Riccomi, Raveena Panchu, Redouan El Yousfi, Romaisa El Hadia, Ruben Guldenaar, Ruben Mosselman, Sahar Alsahli, Sarah Belkhayatte, Sayaka Inoue, Selin Elbertsen, Senaida Kambel, Sergio Phielix, Shanice Westenberg, Sherif El Azzamy, Sophie Veldhuis, Tereza Pospíšilová , Thijmen Meyer, Timo Narjes, Tristan Selier, Tristan van Inge, Tymoteusz Filipczuk, Xiu Lan Tan, Yassine El Bouhali, Yassine El Yakoubi and Zornitsa Hristova.

Written for college leaders at all levels as well as for trustees, this book engages the reader, via narrative and analysis, with the reflective and the practical knowledge essential to a constructive legacy. Leaders of colleges and universities hold in trust an enterprise of complex mission, governance, and outcome. Most will take office with accompanying media celebration of their past records and future promise. Each will exit with a legacy. A few will leave behind tragic legacies of defeated spirits, corrupted organizations, and shameful ethical records. In Leadership Legacy Moments, the author reflects upon the ideas, skills, and values that are essential to effective leadership so that a leader leaves behind a student body with great promise, a set of accomplishments achieved in concert with faculty and staff, and an institutional culture that inspires curiosity, courage, and compassion. Professor Bogue illustrates how ideas and values are linked in the stewardship of one of our nation's premier organizational enterprises. The book is about constructing a leadership legacy that is both effective and ethical.

Leverage your brand of leadership for maximum results Unleashing Your Inner Leader: Executive Coach Tells All presents the premise that there is a powerful leader inside each of us. The focus is on real life exercises and case studies to help you discover, release, and leverage your inner leader: to reach heights in your career that you never thought possible. The book discusses the individual’s impact on the organization and which professional behaviors most frequently demonstrate leadership competencies. Conduct a “forensic intervention” to find out what is going awry in your professional development, or what has gone wrong in the past, and craft a strategy to overcome obstacles, gain unmistakable clarity about yourself, and focus your abilities to match organizational needs. Great leaders start their assessments from the inside out, and their passion is so strong that it permeates their organizations and builds the culture, regardless of rank. They inspire their teams by sharing the spotlight and encouraging coworkers to excel, operating with clean authenticity to maximize results. Unleashing Your Inner Leader helps you recognize where you fall on the leadership spectrum, and provides practical advice for shaping your brand of leadership to capitalize on your authentic capability and potential. You’ll find expert insight as an executive business coach guides you to: Evaluate your strengths, values, and personal impact to craft a vision for the world around you Discover what’s holding you back from maximum effectiveness Tap into your undiscovered potential, and inspire your team to excellence Recognize what it will take to move you and your organization to the next level It is often very difficult for leaders to see their own greatness, unlock it, and use it in a practical way to get results. Be the spark that ignites your team, and steer your own development toward becoming an impactful leader with Unleashing Your Inner Leader.

The topic of leadership is, undeniably, anything but simple given its multitudinous strategies, styles, and nuances. This book is designed to be a resource guide for readers interested in adopting proven strategies to achieve quality results. Its encyclopedic layout serves to make these complex topics easier to navigate and absorb. It is an exploration of a diverse variety of successful approaches to leadership spanning across business, government, and nonprofit sectors. This guide surveys effective strategies that have been around for decades, while integrating more current constructs based on new and cutting-edge research. Subject-matter experts who provide further and concise viewpoints are cited throughout.

An Occupational Perspective on Leadership: Theoretical and Practical Dimensions, Third Edition is essential for occupational therapy students, practicing clinicians, and administrators. Building upon the 2 previous editions, Drs. Sandra Dunbar-Smalley and Kristin Winston provide an in-depth exploration of leadership theories alongside the application of occupational therapy theoretical models to leadership practice within the occupational therapy profession. The Third Edition includes new theoretical perspectives, case examples, and adapted reflection activities to further meet the needs of students and entry-level professionals. New chapters address: • Followership in the context of leadership • A systems approach to leadership • Shared leadership • Transforming health care with leaders for change An Occupational Perspective on Leadership: Theoretical and Practical Dimensions, Third Edition demonstrates the potential of occupational therapy leadership and encourages the next generation of students and clinicians to advance their understanding and application of occupational therapy and leadership theory for best practices.