At all levels and in all organisations, leaders face a rising tide of mistrust in a world that’s increasingly complex and interconnected. If they are to survive and thrive, these leaders, their teams and their organisations are going to need to be simultaneously Authentic, Responsible and Courageous. This is the first book to bring those three critical qualities together. It’s heavily researched but eminently readable.
It walks with you, not judging you. It accepts that these three ARC qualities can be hard to live up to, and it provides a practical programme for getting a whole lot better at it.
In doing so, it will help you:
- adopt new ways of thinking and leading in an increasingly complex world
- create a compelling vision
- increase people’s trust in you and your organisation
- navigate the conflicting priorities of diverse stakeholders
- build better, more resilient teams that deliver far more than the sum of their parts
Table of Content
About the Author
Additional ARC Resources
Acknowledgements
Preface
PART 1: Why and how to read this book
1 The demand for Authentic, Responsible and Courageous leadership
2 How ARC can help
3 How best to use this book
PART 2: Authentic
4 What do we mean by ‘Authentic’?
5 Why it’s hard to be Authentic
6 Six routes to Authentic leadership
7 Questions and commitments
PART 3: Responsible
8 What do we mean by ‘Responsible’?
9 Why it’s hard to be Responsible
10 The ‘dance’ between Responsibility and Authenticity
11 Six steps to being sustainably Responsible
12 Questions and commitments
PART 4: Courageous
13 What do we mean by ‘Courageous’?
14 Courage is key to Authenticity and Responsibility
15 Why it’s hard to be Courageous
16 Reducing the fear
17 How to ‘feel the fear and do it anyway’®
18 Questions and commitments
PART 5: Authentic + Responsible + Courageous
19 A quick recap
20 Bringing the three strands together
21 Where to from here?
Appendices
Appendix 1: Values exercise (Chapters 4, 11 and 17)
Appendix 2: References and endnotes
® Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway is the registered trademark of The Jeffers/Shelmerdine Family Trust and is used with their permission.
About the author
Richard is a psychologist specialising in driving organisational performance by improving the quality of leadership, followership and team performance – whether that’s working with individuals, teams, groups or whole organisations. He has consulted on six continents with the likes of BT, Credit Suisse, numerous charities, Ernst & Young, Gucci, Heineken, government agencies, the military, the NHS, Nickelodeon, Rolls-Royce, Shell, Siemens, Southampton Football Club, Virgin and Vodafone. He’s also enjoyed relationships with London, Henley and Oxford-Said Business Schools, and Dublin’s Trinity College.He’s the author of two previous books – ‘ARC Leadership: from surviving to thriving in a complex world’ and ‘The Boss Factor: 10 lessons in managing up for mutual gain’ – co-wrote Henley Business School’s 2013 ‘future of leadership development’ report, and is a contributing author in The Practitioner’s Handbook of Team Coaching.
More ebooks from the same author(s) / Editor
36,166 Ebooks in this category
