1
of
1
What You Really Need to Lead
The Power of Thinking and Acting Like an Owner
Book Hero Magic crafted this summary to help describe this book. While it's new and still
learning, it may not be perfect - your
feedback is welcome!
Summary
Read More
Format: Hardback
$5999
Unit price
/
Unavailable
AVAILABLE WITH SUPPLIER
Ships from our Auckland warehouse within 4-6 weeks
Found a better price? Request a price match
What You Really Need to Lead
$5999
Unit price
/
Unavailable
Book Hero Magic created this recommendation. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! IS THIS YOUR NEXT READ?
You might enjoy this book if you're interested in understanding how leadership skills can be developed and harnessed even without formal authority. This insightful guide helps readers recognise their own leadership potential and provides practical strategies for influencing others and making impactful decisions. It's ideal for anyone looking to enhance their personal and professional development by embracing a leadership mindset.
What makes a leader? Can you really learn to lead? You might think that leaders need to be born with the right skills or personality attributes. Perhaps you believe you don't have the right experience or that you need to hold an important job to be a leader. Maybe you believe you need permission to lead. ownership mind-set
Book Hero Magic formatted this description to make it easier to read. While it's new and
still learning, it may not be perfect - your
feedback is welcome!
Description
What makes a leader? Can you really learn to lead? You might think that leaders need to be born with the right skills or personality attributes. Perhaps you believe you don't have the right experience or that you need to hold an important job to be a leader. Maybe you believe you need permission to lead.
As Harvard Business School professor and business executive Robert Steven Kaplan explains in this powerful new book, What You Really Need to Lead, leadership is accessible to all of us today, and it starts with an ownership mind-set. You don't need an invitation to lead. Leadership is a dynamic way of thinking and acting that anyone can take on.
For Kaplan, acting as a leader is a function of three key questions:
1. Do you work to figure out what you believe as if you were an owner?
2. Do you take action based on those beliefs?
3. Do you focus on adding value to others and take responsibility for the impact of your actions on othersβboth positive and negative?
The book is full of stories taken from the author's own leadership experience as well as from his work helping various types of leaders and organisations. What's revealed is that leadership is not a role reserved for an elite few blessed with the right skills and key positionsβit's about a focus on taking ownership and adding value to others.
What's more, leadership is a lifelong journey of learning for which you must take responsibility. It's about learning to ask the right questions and learning to understand yourself.
Book Hero Magic summarised reviews for this book. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! HOW HAS THIS BEEN REVIEWED?
What You Really Need to Lead by Robert S. Kaplan is praised for its authoritative approach in demystifying leadership and providing a framework to enhance leadership skills. Reviewers highlight its practical advice, exercises, and thought-provoking questions that guide readers in developing necessary leadership qualities. The book is well-regarded for its engaging stories and insightful, real-life case studies that help leaders at all levels gain confidence and effectiveness in their roles.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781633690554
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
Format: Hardback
Date Published: 15 September 2015
Country: United States
Imprint: Harvard Business Review Press
Illustration: Illustrations
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 139.0mm
Height: 209.0mm
Weight: 340g
Pages: 224
About the Author
Robert Steven Kaplan is president and chief executive of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. Previously, he was the Senior Associate Dean for External Relations and Martin Marshall Professor of Management Practice in Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He is the author of three books: What You Really Need to Lead, What You're Really Meant to Do and What to Ask the Person in the Mirror.
Also by Robert S. Kaplan
View all-
What to Ask the Person in the Mirror
Successful leaders know that leadership is less often about having all the answers and more often about asking the right questions. The challenge lies in being able to step back, reflect, and ask the key questions that are critical to your performance and your organisation's effectiveness. In What to Ask the Person in the Mirror, leadership expert Robert Kaplan presents...Hardback$7200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
The Execution Premium
In a world of stiffening competition, business strategy is more crucial than ever. Yet most organisations struggle in this areaβnot with formulating strategy but with executing it, or putting their strategy into action. Owing to execution failures, companies realise just a fraction of the financial performance promised in their strategic plans. It doesn't have to be that way, maintain Robert...Hardback$9499Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks -
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Boards (with bonus article "What Makes Great Boards Great" by Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld)
Serving on a board is like having a second full-time job. Earning a seat on a board is a rite of passage for senior leaders. It offers an opportunity to share your skills and extend your reach beyond your own organisation as you help select, appoint, and review the performance of an organisation's senior leadership team, determine compensation and incentive...Paperback$6200Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 2-3 weeks -
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Risk (with bonus article "Managing 21st-Century Political Risk" by Condoleezza Rice and Amy Zegart)
Is your business playing it safe - or taking the right risks? Risk is a regular part of business, but knowing which risks to take and when to step back is often unclear. Whether you're assessing a new opportunity for innovation or thinking about your long-term strategy in an unsteady economy, you need to know the best way to proceed...Paperback$4799Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 4-6 weeks
More from Self-Help & Personal Development
View all-
Signed CopyNew Release"What Were You Thinking!?"
Everything parents need to know about their baby, child or teen's developing brain to raise resilient, emotional intelligent kids, by globally renowned neuroscience educator Nathan Wallis. 'What were you thinking!?'If you've ever asked this in despair while watching a toddler melt down, a tween push boundaries or a teenager make a truly terrible decision, this book is for you.InΒ "What Were...Paperback$3299Elsewhere:$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
The Let Them Theory
New York Times Bestselling Author. Millions of books sold worldwide! A Life-Changing Tool Millions of People Can't Stop Talking About What if the key to happiness, success, and love was as simple as two words? If you've ever felt stuck, overwhelmed, or frustrated with where you are, the problem isn't you. The problem is the power you give to other...Paperback$2599Elsewhere:$3200Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
New ReleaseEat Your Ice Cream
The New York Times bestseller that presents a bold new vision for living well and ageing with purpose from a world-renowned health expert THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From a leading doctor and world-renowned health expert, the simple, uplifting and practical guide to cutting through the wellness noise, living well and ageing with purpose. βEssential reading for anyone who...Paperback$3199Elsewhere:$4000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
New Release
The Winner's Formula
The Neuroscience of Peak Performance, Success, and Happiness Why do some people win all the time? Why do others languish? From Olympians to Formula 1 drivers, addicts to billionaires, cognitive neuroscientist Dr Kerry Spackman has spent decades working to help people understand how to succeed. In The Winner's Formula, Kerry explains what goes on in your brain when you are...Paperback$3199Elsewhere:$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
Choose Your Hard
Every path in life is hard. Being unfit and unhealthy is hard. Choosing to exercise, eat well, face discomfort, and do the difficult things is also hard. The question is: which hard do you choose? In Choose Your Hard, Professor Grant Schofield, one of New Zealandβs most cited health scientists with over 18,000 citations in the scientific literature, argues that...Paperback$3300Elsewhere:$3500Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
New ReleaseThe Atomic Habits Daily Calendar
Powerful ideas for each day of the year from the author of the #1 worldwide bestseller, Atomic Habits. Based on the principles that made Atomic Habits a global phenomenon, this daily calendar turns habit formation into a simple daily practice. Get actionable guidance, motivational insights, and system-building tools that make it easier to get a little bit betterβevery day of...Calendar$3699Elsewhere:$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
The DOSE Effect
The DOSE Effect offers small habits to boost your brain chemistry. "This book will help you find more motivation, create deeper connections, energise your body, and destress your mind," says Jay Shetty, author of Think Like a Monk. Life can feel overwhelming, but it doesnβt have to be. Todayβs fast-paced world leaves many of us struggling with extreme emotional highs...Paperback$3199Elsewhere:$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
New ReleaseNow What?
There are countless self-help books telling you how to get the life you wantβhow to find your purpose, make your plan, follow your goals. Yet, too many of us are frozen in life, unfulfilled and stuck with what we have. Too often, we only see our future through a lens of the pastβour past beliefs, experiences, and circumstances. We desire...Paperback$3299Elsewhere:$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
We Can Do Hard Things
We Can Do Hard Things is a powerful and inspiring guide co-authored by renowned voices Abby Wambach, Glennon Doyle, and Amanda Doyle. This compelling book offers insights and encouragement to help readers tackle life's toughest challenges. By combining personal stories with practical advice, the authors empower you to embrace resilience and courage. Their collective wisdom sheds light on the strength...Paperback$3200Elsewhere:$4000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
Atua Wahine
Ancient wisdom of the MΔori goddesses to help you navigate the modern world Atua Wahine are the MΔori goddesses who make up the world around us: earth, fire, water, the moon, and more. From the earth mother, Papatuanuku, who sustains and nurtures us, to the goddess of peace, Hineputehue, who transformed pain into beauty, and the misunderstood goddess of the...Hardback$3000Elsewhere:$3699Unit price /UnavailableBackorderShips mid August -
The Myth of Normal
A book that changes everything - from the legendary Dr Gabor MatΓ© THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD We tend to believe that normality equals health. Yet what is the norm in the Western world? Mental illness and chronic disease are on an unstoppable rise. How did we get here? And what lies ahead for us?...Paperback$2400Elsewhere:$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
The Anxious Generation
A powerful argument for reclaiming childhoodβand all human relationshipsβfrom the online world, from the influential social psychologist and international bestselling author. Jonathan Haidt has spent his career speaking truth and wisdom in some of the most difficult spacesβcommunities polarised by politics and religion, campuses battling culture wars, and now the mental health emergency hitting teenagers today in many countries around...Paperback$2299Elsewhere:$3000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
Why buy from us?
Book Hero is not a chain store or big box retailer. We're an independent 100% NZ-owned business on a mission to help more Kiwis rediscover a love of books and reading!
Service & Delivery
Our warehouse in Auckland holds over 100,000 books, toys, board games and puzzles in-stock so you're not waiting for your order to arrive from overseas.
Auckland Bookstore
We're primarily an online store, but for your convenience you can pick up your order for free from our bookstore, which is right next door to our warehouse in Hobsonville.
Our Gifting Service
Books make wonderful thoughtful gifts and we're here to help with gift-wrapping and cards. We can even send your gift directly to your loved one.
