Drive : What Makes a Leader in Business and Beyond
John Viney
Format: Hardcover, 263pp.
ISBN: 9781582340258
Publisher: Bloomsbury Pub Plc USA
Pub. Date: August 1999
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From The Publisher:
There is a universal fascination with leadership: everyone has experienced it, but few understand it. As a leading player in the world of corporate headhunting for twenty years, John Viney has a unique knowledge of contemporary business leaders, and has become obsessed with understanding the nature of the quality that he scrutinizes every working day. The result is a wide-ranging study drawing on history, politics, anthropology, and psychology; on the lives of the great leaders themselves; and on the philosophers and poets, from Shakespeare to Lawrence of Arabia, and from Freud to E.M. Forster.Viney distinguishes good leadership from bad, and leaders from managers and mavericks. Everyone who works, indeed everyone who has been a member of a family, will recognize the quality that Viney draws out. Above all, Drive is the result of its author's experience of and fascination with his subject, "the product of long hours of observation and being alongside the best—and the worst—among business leaders.

About the Author
John Viney is the Chairman of Heidrick and Struggles, the leading international firm of headhunters.

Table of Contents
| Preface | 1 |
| Introduction | 5 |
| Leadership Begins in the Home: Family Influences on Leaders | 24 |
| The Will to Lead: The Influence of Personality on Leaders | 49 |
| The Leader Who Came in From the Cold: The Leader as Outsider | 75 |
| What's in a Name? On Leaders, Managers and Entrepreneurs | 102 |
| Follow My Leader: The Role of the Follower | 129 |
| The Global Leader | 156 |
| Why Leaders Fail | 184 |
| The Leader of the Pack: Leadership and the Board | 214 |
| Of Worms and Glow-Worms | 239 |
| Index | 257 |
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