You dont need a big title or a business degree inorder to lead with impact. What you need is practicalwisdom: the insight, judgment, and strength ofcharacter that all great leaders have, but that mostbusiness schools and corporate workshops dontteach. The Greats on Leadership gets you there.Jocelyn Davis takes you on an in-depth tour of thebest leadership ideas of the past 25 centuries,featuring classic authors from Plato to WinstonChurchill, Shakespeare to Jane Austen, C.G. Jung toPeter Drucker, and many more. In a style boththought-provoking and entertaining, she shows howhistorys great writers have always been, and still are,the real leadership gurus.Davis spells out the behaviors that distinguish trueleaders from misleaders and covers 20 specificleadership topics, including: Leadership Traps (Shakespeare) Change (Machiavelli) Power (Sophocles) Dilemmas (Madison, Hamilton) Communication (Lincoln, Pericles) Personality Types (Jung) Motivation (Frankl) Judgment (Maupassant, Melville, Austen, Shaw) Character (Churchill, Plutarch, Shelley, Joyce)Each chapter begins with a synopsis of a great workby the author and then draws out the key leadershipinsights, weaving them together with businessexamples, the best contemporary research, and toolsto help put it all into practice.In the last two chaptersDavis presents a new way to think about leadershiplevels, framing them in terms of the impact you haverather than the title on your business card.Whether youre a recent graduate or MBA searchingfor something more inspiring than the standardtextbook, a new manager looking for somethingdeeper than the typical how-to book, or anexperienced executive seeking ideas to lift you to thenext level, this remarkably readable and practicalguide will set you on the road to becoming a greatleader.
