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Leadership A to Z : A Guide for the Appropriately Ambitious James O'Toole 
 Format: Hardcover, 336pp. ISBN: 9780787946586 Publisher: Jossey-Bass, Inc. Pub. Date: August 1999 Average Customer Review: 
For Bulk Orders Call: 626-441-2024  Description and Reviews From The Publisher: Primer, reference, and handbook all in one, Leadership A to Z is the ideal guide for individuals looking to quickly build or improve their leadership skills and for organizations looking to increase leadership capacity throughout their ranks. Think of it as a leadership coach in book form whose only learning prerequisite, as author O'Toole points out, is a disposition toward "appropriate" ambition. From Fortune, December 6, 1999 Instead of focusing, as most leadership tomes do, on who leaders are, their character, style, charisma, and so on, this book looks closely at what great leaders actually do. As the title implies, Leadership A to Z is organized alphabetically by topic, from Apologia to Zenith (one entry under is Lenin, Hitler, et alia), in bite-sized chunks of two to four pages that are meant to be pondered between meetings or while waiting for a plane. But what a lot O'Toole crams in here, drawing on examples from Hohandas Gandhi to Abraham Lincoln to Roger Enrico of PepsiCO to pro basketball coach Pat Riley. Reviews In the last quarter of this century, America has produced no more perceptive or broad-gauged student of leadership than James O'Toole. Now he brings all of his scholarly thoughtfulness and practical experience to bear on a masterful book for us all. It is brilliantly grounded in theory, but stunningly usable. It is, as O'Toole claims, about what leaders actually do. —Tom Peters
You don't have to shout to convince. Jim O'Toole talks softly, gently, yet convincingly about what leaders do, or can do. The moral and the pragmatic aspects of leadership come together nicely, and are served up in small, bite-sized pieces of wise, well-written text. —Sumantra Ghoshal, Professor, London Business School and coauthor of The Individualized Corporation and Managing Across Borders
An extraordinarily compelling, magnetic compass for ambitious people who wish to lead forcefully, yet do the right thing for themselves, their communities, and their businesses. —Ronald Heifetz, Professor, Harvard University
About the Author James O'Toole is vice president of the Aspen Institute where he heads all seminar programs, including the renowned executive seminar. His major responsibility at the institute is as the director of the Corporate Leaders Forum-a consortium of 20 eminent corporations dedicated to preparing the next generation of their executives to lead change. In 1994, O'Toole retired from the University of Southern California (USC) after a career of over 20 years on the faculty of the Graduate School of Business, where he held the University Associates' Chair of Management. At USC he had most recently been executive director of the Leadership Institute. For six years, he was editor of New Management magazine. Previous to that he was director of the 20-Year Forecast Project, where from 1973 to 1983 he interpreted social, political and economic change for the top management of 30 of the 50 largest US corporations. O'Toole's research and writings have been in the areas of business and society, corporate culture and leadership. He has addressed dozens of major corporations and professional organizations and has published over 70 articles. Among his 12 books, Vanguard Management was named, "One of the best business and economics books of 1985" by the editors of Business Week. Table of Contents
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