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Self-Leadership: The Definitive Guide to Personal Excellence, 2nd Edition

ISBN-13: 978-1544324302
ISBN-10: 1544324308

Author: Christopher P. Neck (Author), Charles C. Manz (Author), Jeffery D. Houghton (Author)

Written by the scholars who first developed the theory of self-leadership, Self-Leadership: The Definitive Guide to Personal Excellence offers powerful yet practical advice for leading oneself to personal excellence. Grounded in the most recently published, cutting-edge self-leadership research, this milestone book is based on a simple yet revolutionary principle: first learn to lead yourself, then you will be able to effectively lead others. This inclusive approach to self-motivation and self-influence equips readers with the strategies and tips they need to strengthen their own personal effectiveness. The updated Second Edition resonates with today’s students by featuring contemporary examples, new cases, new feature boxes, and the latest research.

Brief Contents
1. Preface
2. Acknowledgments
3. About the Authors
4. Chapter 1 • An Introduction to Self-Leadership: The Journey Begins
5. Chapter 2 • The Context of Self-Leadership: Mapping the Route
6. Chapter 3 • Behavior-Focused Strategies: Overcoming Rough Roads,
Detours, and Roadblocks
7. Chapter 4 • Natural Reward-Focused Strategies:Scenic Views,
Sunshine, and the Joys of Traveling
8. Chapter 5 • Constructive Thought-Focused Strategies:Developing a
Travel Mind-Set
9. Chapter 6 • Team Self-Leadership: Sharing the Journey
10. Chapter 7 • Self-Leadership, Health, and Well-Being:Maintaining
Physical and Emotional Fitness on the Journey
11. Chapter 8 • Individual Differences, Diversity, and Practical
Applications: Multiple Paths to Uniqueness
12. Chapter 9 • Reaching the Destination: But the Journey Continues …
13. Notes
14. Index

Preface
To bring anything into your life, imagine that it’s already there.—Richard Bach
The quote above truly captures the essence of this book. Self-leadership is a process of leading yourself to overcome obstacles to your goals. We believe that everyone practices self-leadership, but not everyone practices self-leadership effectively. This book is a comprehensive self-help guide that is thoroughly grounded in sound principles and research. It addresses the most interesting subject you will ever encounter—yourself. If you want to be more effective in your work and life, this book is for you. It provides powerful advice and the tools you need to lead yourself to personal excellence, offering a practical perspective that should serve as the foundation for the study of management. The book is based on a simple yet revolutionary principle: first learn to lead yourself, and then you will be in a solid position to lead others effectively.
Consider the following:
Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman on the U.S. Supreme Court could not get a job as a lawyer on graduating from law school. The only job offered to her was that of a legal secretary.
Michael Jordan, arguably the best basketball player of all time, was cut from his high school basketball team.
Ludwig van Beethoven, one of the world’s major composers, was told by a music teacher that he had no talent for music. In fact, this teacher once remarked about Beethoven, “As a composer he is hopeless.”
As a young man, Walt Disney, the great cartoonist and movie producer, was advised to pursue another line of work by a newspaper editor in Kansas City, who told Disney, “You don’t have any creative, original ideas.”
A Munich schoolmaster told ten-year-old Albert Einstein, who later became a brilliant scientist, “You will never amount to much.” In 1962, Decca Records turned down the opportunity to work with an 14 unknown music group called the Beatles. The company’s rationale was, “We don’t like their sound and guitar music is on the way out.” This unknown singing group subsequently became legendary. Dr. Seuss’s first children’s book, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, was rejected by twenty-seven publishers. The twenty-eighth, Vanguard Press, sold 6 million copies of the book.
The book Chicken Soup for the Soul, written by Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen, was turned down by thirty-three publishers before Health Communications agreed to publish it. Major New York publishers said, “It is too nicey nice” and “Nobody wants to read a book of short little stories.” Since the first book came out in 1993, more than 80 million copies of the Chicken Soup for the Soul series have been sold worldwide, with translations in thirty-nine languages.
In 1935, the New York Herald Tribune’s review of composer George Gershwin’s now-classic opera Porgy and Bess stated that the work was “surefire rubbish.”
Thomas Edison, the inventor of the electric light, the phonograph, and more than a hundred other useful items, was told by a teacher that he was too stupid to learn anything.
During their first year in business, the founders of the Coca-Cola Company sold only four hundred bottles of Coke. In response to Fred Smith’s term paper proposing the creation of a reliable overnight delivery service, a Yale University management professor wrote, “The concept is interesting and well formed, but in order to earn better than a C, the idea must be feasible.” Smith went on to establish the Federal Express Corporation based on the ideas in this “average” paper.
Inventor Chester Carlson pounded the streets for years before he found backers for his photocopying process and subsequently helped to establish the Xerox Corporation.
Before he founded Apple Computer, Steve Jobs was rejected by Atari and Hewlett-Packard during his attempts to get companies interested in his idea about a personal computer. Hewlett-Packard
personnel remarked, “Hey, we don’t need you. You haven’t gotten through college yet.” Jobs pursued the idea himself, and Apple’s firstyear sales exceeded $2.5 million.
In December 1977, with only $20,000 to his name, Michael Burton was laughed at by colleagues and bankers when he quit his lucrative small business consulting job and vowed to turn his “snowsurfing”
concept into a popular sport. By 1998, Burton was owner of Burton 15
Snowboards, the largest pure snowboarding company in the world, with annual sales of more than $150 million. Because of Burton’s promotional efforts, some 8 million people worldwide enjoy snowboarding, and it officially became a medal sport in the 1998 Winter Olympics. Who’s laughing now?