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A complete list of the sources for the leadership accelerator.

21 Leaders for the 21st Century: How Innovative
Leaders Manage in the Digital Age
– Fons
Trompenaars and Charles ampden-Turner
(Capstone Publishing, 2001)

Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary
Companies
– James C. Collins & Jerry I. Porras
(HarperCollins Publishers, 1997)

Developing the Leaders Around You: How to Help
Others Reach Their Full Potential
– John C.
Maxwell (Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1995)

Developing the Leader Within You – John C.
Maxwell (Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1993)

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the
Leap and Others Don’t
– Jim Collins (Random
House Business Books, 2001)

Harvard Business Review on Leadership
Multiple Authors (Harvard Business School
Press, 1998)

Harvard Business Review on Managing People:
“Pygmalion in Management” by J. Sterling Livingston; “Empowerment: The Emperor’s New Clothes” by Chris Argyris; “The Set-Up-to-Fail Syndrome” by Jean-Francois Manzoni and Jean- Louis Barsoux; and “The Necessary Art of
Persuasion” by Jay A. Conger (Harvard Business School Press, 1999)

In Search of Leaders – Hilarie Owen (John Wiley & Sons, 2000)

Intelligent Leadership: Creating a Passion for Change – Alan Hooper & John Potter (Random House Business Books, 2001)

Leadership and the One Minute Manager: Increasing Effectiveness through Situational Leadership – Kenneth Blanchard (HarperCollins Business, 1994)

Not Bosses, But Leaders: How to Lead the Way to Success – John Adair (Kogan Page, 1990)

On Becoming a Leader – Warren Bennis (Arrow Business Books, 1998)

Straight from the CEO: The World’s Top Business Leaders Reveal Ideas that Every Manager Can Use – editors G. William Dauphinais and Colin Price of Price Waterhouse (Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 1998)

Sun Tzu: The Art of War – J. H. Huang (William Morrow and Company, 1993)

The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader: Becoming the Person Others Will Want to Follow – John C. Maxwell (Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1999)

21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You – John C. Maxwell (Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1991)

The Future of Leadership: Today’s Top Leadership Thinkers Speak to Tomorrow’s Leaders – Multiple Authors; edited by Warren Bennis, Gretchen M. Spreitzer & Thomas G. Cummings (Jossey-Bass Publishers, 2001)

The Leader of the Future: The Drucker Foundation – editors Frances Hesselbein, Marshall Goldsmith & Richard Beckhard (Jossey-Bass Publishers,
1996)

The Leadership Challenge: How to Keep Getting Extraordinary Things Done in Organisations – James M. Kouzes & Barry Z. Posner (Jossey-Bass
Publishers, 1995)

The New Global Leaders: Richard Branson, Percy Barnevik, David Simon and the Remaking of International Business. - Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries with Elizabeth Florent-Treacy (Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1999)

The New Leaders: Transforming the Art of Leadership into the Science of Results – Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis and Annie McKee (Harvard Business School Press, 2002)

The Tools of Leadership: Vision, Inspiration, Momentum – Max Landsberg
(HarperCollinsBusiness, 2000)

The Way of the Leader – Donald G. Krause (Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 1997)

Visionary Leadership: Creating a Compelling Sense of Direction for Your Organisation – Burt Nanus (Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1992)

What Leaders Really Do – John P. Kotter (A Harvard Business Review Book, 1999)

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Leadership Tools & Resources

Introduction
How to be the best leader that you can be.
Accelerator - Leadership
(Adobe PDF file - Get Acrobat Reader)
Provides: a short history of leadership thinking; an innovative model that integrates the key strands of modern leadership scholarship; a practical framework for advancing your own leadership skills.
Accelerator - Vision
(Adobe PDF file - Get Acrobat Reader)Explains: what vision is and is not; why a shared vision is critical to the success of any and all human endeavours; how to create one for your organisation.

(NB Footdown accelerators are so called because using them will enable you to speed up acquisition of the skills you need to be a great leader.)
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