Leading Lights: Business Leadership Skills from Cricket's Iconic Captains
$42.50
In Leading Lights, author and management trainer John Carter offers a fresh perspective on leadership by exploring the multifaceted role of the international cricket captain. Drawing on the stories and examples of 18 icons, including Richie Benaud, Sir Frank Worrell, Mike Brearley, Imran Khan, MS Dhoni, Meg Lanning, and Ben Stokes, Carter reveals what business leaders can learn from this team leadership role.
To aid the business manager, executive, or team leader in successfully directing a department or team, the book examines timeless challenges such as
* motivating employees,
* making decisions under pressure, and
* transforming underperforming teams.
It also highlights those often overlooked leadership tensions and dilemmas, including
* the balance between intensity and detachment,
* using instinct versus logic, and
* how to support authenticity and the need for both the employees and the business to evolve.
All these topics are framed within a cricket concept, highlighting how those challenges and learning opportunities cricket captains experience on the field can be transferred to the office.
Whether a person's arena is the boardroom or the field, Leading Lights will broaden perspectives, sharpen judgments, and offer practical business ideas and solutions that can be immediately put into action.
To aid the business manager, executive, or team leader in successfully directing a department or team, the book examines timeless challenges such as
* motivating employees,
* making decisions under pressure, and
* transforming underperforming teams.
It also highlights those often overlooked leadership tensions and dilemmas, including
* the balance between intensity and detachment,
* using instinct versus logic, and
* how to support authenticity and the need for both the employees and the business to evolve.
All these topics are framed within a cricket concept, highlighting how those challenges and learning opportunities cricket captains experience on the field can be transferred to the office.
Whether a person's arena is the boardroom or the field, Leading Lights will broaden perspectives, sharpen judgments, and offer practical business ideas and solutions that can be immediately put into action.
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