Results-Based Leadership
How Leaders Build the
Business and Improve the Bottom Line
FEW WOULD ARGUE that
leadership matters. Companies that can attract, develop, and retain the best leaders are
likely to flourish. The issue grows hazy when we attempt to define leadership, and hazier
still when managers try to match today's dizzying array of leadership practices with the
specific needs of their organization. Results-Based Leadership brings refreshing clarity
and directness to the leadership discussion, providing a hands-on program that will help
executives succeed with their leadership challenges.
A landmark book,
Results-Based Leadership challenges the conventional wisdom surrounding leadership. The
authors world-renowned experts in human resources and leadership development argue that it
is not enough to gauge leaders by personal traits such as character, knowledge, style, and
values. Effective leaders, say the authors, do more than master the attributes of
leadership. They know how to connect their attributes with results.
Results-Based Leadership
shows executives how to deliver results in four specific areas: results for employees, the
organization, its customers, and its investors. The authors provide action-oriented
guidelines for readers to develop and hone their own results-based leadership skills. They
look beyond the quick fixes, buzzwords, and trends that typify many leadership programs,
and focus instead on producing results that can be measured and integrated into any
business strategy or corporate culture.
Here, for the first time, is
a guidebook that bridges the gap between leadership theory and leadership skills.
Results-Based Leadership fundamentally improves our ability to deliver real leadership
results.
Dave Ulrich is a professor at
the School of Business at the University of Michigan, where he codirects Michigan's Human
Resource Executive Program. He is the author of the bestselling Human Resource Champions
(HBS Press). jack zenger is president of Provant, an organizational and performance
improvement firm, and prior to that cofounded Zenger-Miller, a leading management and
leadership development company. He is a coauthor of the best-selling Self-Directed Work
Teams: The New American Challenge. norm smallwood is CEO of Results-Based Leadership, a
Provant Company, which provides a variety of leadership solutions that apply this book's
principles with a focus on measure-able increases in shareholder value. He is a coauthor
of Real-Time Strategy.
234 pages