Most executives lead with purpose. Yet many lack self-knowledge, failing to recognize the limitations that accompany their strengths. They drive forward too boldly, unwittingly creating the potential for one slip or bump along the way to diminish their work and the respect of those they lead. That lack of self-knowledge may threaten a once-promising career. Intentional leaders, however, learn to focus not only on what they plan to accomplish, but how they will lead others to get there. They examine their strengths and identify their weaknesses, and in the process become the kind of leader employees want to follow. First though, they need to understand how to reach that point.
In Intentional Leadership: 12 Lenses for Focusing Strengths, Managing Weaknesses, and Achieving Your Purpose, Jane A. G. Kise introduces the 12 Lenses for Leadership a framework developed from extensive research on personality type and emotional intelligence, and a meta-analysis of the essential tasks and attitudes of successful leaders. Through these lenses, leaders learn:
How personality type informs decision making
How to identify and then compare your strengths and values to good leadership practice
How to identify your potential weaknesses and blind spots
How to use your strengths and weaknesses to optimize your leadership style
With this provocative yet simple framework, Intentional Leadership helps you align your pur pose and actions to achieve your true potential as a leader.
Intentional Leadership: 12 Lenses for Focusing Strengths, Managing Weaknesses, and Achieving Your Purpose shows readers how to balance the following:
1.Outer focus and inner focus
2.Breadth of environment and depth of effort
3.Leadership with listening
4.Reality with vision
5.The known with the new
6.Facts and clarity with possibilities and ambiguity
7.Logic and values
8.Outcomes with people
9.Individual trust with team trust
10.Planning with flexibility
11.Goal orientation with engagement
12.Limits with opportunities
