Título: Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader
Autor: Herminia Ibarra
Sinopse: You aspire to lead with greater impact. The problem is you’re busy executing on today’s demands. You know you have to carve out time from your day job to build your leadership skills, but it’s easy to let immediate problems and old mind-sets get in the way. Herminia Ibarra—an expert on professional leadership and development and a renowned professor at INSEAD, a leading international business school—shows how managers and executives at all levels can step up to leadership by making small but crucial changes in their jobs, their networks, and themselves. In Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader, she offers advice to help you:
• Redefine your job in order to make more strategic contributions
• Diversify your network so that you connect to, and learn from, a bigger range of stakeholders
• Become more playful with your self-concept, allowing your familiar—and possibly outdated—leadership style to evolve
Ibarra turns the usual “think first and then act” philosophy on its head by arguing that doing these three things will help you learn through action and will increase what she calls your outsight—the valuable external perspective you gain from direct experiences and experimentation. As opposed to insight, outsight will then help change the way you think as a leader: about what kind of work is important; how you should invest your time; why and which relationships matter in informing and supporting your leadership; and, ultimately, who you want to become.
Packed with self-assessments and practical advice to help define your most pressing leadership challenges, this book will help you devise a plan of action to become a better leader and move your career to the next level. It’s time to learn by doing.
Contexto da obra
Como livro em inglês, esta obra costuma ganhar também uma camada própria de interesse editorial e linguístico. “Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader”, de Herminia Ibarra, publicado pela editora Harvard Business Review Press, em 2015 e com 200 páginas, integra a categoria Livros em Inglês. Por isso, o interesse da obra tende a se ampliar quando o leitor considera também a relação com a língua em que ela circula.
Editora: Harvard Business Review Press
Páginas: 200
Ano: 2015-02-10
Edição: 1
Linguagem: en
ISBN: 1422184129
ISBN13: 9781422184127
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora Harvard Business Review Press oferecem uma leitura focada em gestão, liderança, inovação e estratégias empresariais, com textos que combinam clareza e aplicabilidade prática. As obras costumam apresentar estudos de caso reais, relatos de experiências profissionais e frameworks que ajudam a entender e melhorar processos organizacionais complexos. O catálogo privilegia abordagens que conectam teoria e prática, com um tom didático e orientado para resultados, voltado a profissionais que buscam aprimorar habilidades de liderança, tomada de decisão e inovação. Há títulos que exploram tanto a dimensão pessoal do líder quanto os desafios coletivos de equipes e organizações, revelando um equilíbrio entre reflexões profundas e orientações objetivas.
