The Self-Aware Leader provides practical and proven lessons on how becoming more self-aware within the context of your management practices will benefit you, your career, and your organization. Based on research by the author, it offers insights regarding those aspects of your management career about which you need to become self-aware, and which characteristics drive desirable leadership outcomes such as achieving success with projects, promotions, and professional satisfaction.
Some of the specific topics discussed in The Self-Aware Leader include:
defining the advantages of self-awareness in leadershipspecific lessons on how to become a self-aware leaderguidance on how to successfully reinvent self, others, and the businessapplying your self-awareness to the task of day-to-day managementthe importance and value of profitable imagination in leadershiphow thinking like a general manager can yield benefits to you and your organizationthe power of Generosity QuotientTM and professional authenticity as leadership practiceshow to put these lessons together by "connecting the dots" to boost innovation and success.
The Self-Aware Leader delivers a proven program to increased success for both you and your organization by outlining a path to greater managerial self-awareness. With its specific, experience-based insights for managers, The Self-Aware Leader is an extremely valuable resource for anyone interested in increasing their leadership skill set and furthering their managerial career.
Written by Fortune 100 executive Dan Gallagher, The Self-Aware Leader is a unique approach on how to become a more effective leader by increasing self-awareness in four pillars of leadership. By integrating the concepts of reinvention, servant leadership, and business transformation into a single framework that has been validated in research, The Self-Aware Leader emphasizes taking a calculated approach to change rather than merely reacting to change. The Self-Aware Leader also helps readers recognize three basic truths which are crucial to success within organizations: approaches to management have a shelf life; middle managers are frequently caught between "a rock and a hard place"; and, with conservatism on the rise, becoming and remaining an effective leader is extremely complex. This book offers two key takeaways; (1) a new mental framework on leadership more appropriate for today's business conditions; and (2) a functional, practical plan for putting the newly learned concepts presented into daily practice.
