What makes a great leader? Have you got what it takes? And how can you improve your leadership skills to get the most out of yourself, the people you manage and your business? In this new paperback edition of The Leadership Mystique, acclaimed management guru Manfred Kets de Vries answers these questions and more.

• All ambitious managers want to become leaders and are keen to learn how to get there.

• Many managers/leaders suffer from what Kets De Vries has coined  'neurotic impostor syndrome', the fear of being exposed as a 'fake', and are seeking tips and guidance on how to become more effective and confident in their roles.

• First edition was extremely successful internationally.

• Manfred Kets De Vries is a major name and an accomplished writer. As well as being the author /editor of 17 books, he publishes widely in journals, newspapers and professional magazines, for instance recent (September 2005) articles in the Harvard Business Review and The Guardian.

• The second edition will be shorter, punchier and a lower-priced paperback taking the book to a wider audience.

• Includes clever diagnostics that get you thinking such as: If your company/team is drowning and you can save only 5 people, who would you save?

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Unique Leadership Insights - 2009-12-09
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There are many books on leadership, but only a few of them provide unique insights. This is one such book. Filled with helpful self-test questionnaires to help the reader identify personal and organisational leadership issues, the book tackles a number of important issues such as leadership in cross-cultural contexts.

In an environment of increasing globalisation, businesses can no longer hope to run efficiently by assuming that American leadership practices will work everywhere. Churches are increasingly facing similar issues if they want to reflect the nature of the Christian faith truly by reaching people from every nation, rather than just people from a homogeneous group. Attributes required of inter-cultural leaders include an interest in the socio-economic life of other countries, a willingness to hear and understand other views, openness to travel and new cultural experiences, and a high tolerance for frustration and ambiguity.

Another interesting insight is the deconstruction of the leadership role into a charismatic role and an architectural role, and the deconstruction of the elusive quality of "charisma" into the separate qualities of challenging the status quo, creating hope, dramatising risk, manipulating symbols, setting a right example, and making people feel significant. Once leadership charisma is understood as a set of skills, it becomes possible for people to acquire them.

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