Bøker av John Adair

John Adair's Leadership Lexicon is an all-in-one volume of his ground breaking and influential works on leadership. Including the international best-seller Leadership of Muhammad, it explores the nature of motivation, strategy and the skills needed to become a leader.

The first installment in a new series offering straightforward, practical wisdom from a top business guru John Adair's 100 Greatest Ideas for Effective Management is the first in a new series of titles from the noted business expert.

The final instalment in a new series offering straightforward, practical wisdom from a top business guru John Adair's 100 Greatest Ideas for Amazing Creativity is the second title in a new series of titles from the noted business expert.

Offers practical advice and tips on problem solving and productive thinking. This title includes 11 Greatest Ideas for Practical Wisdom; 8 Greatest Ideas for Problem Solving Strategies; 13 Greatest Ideas for How Your Mind Works; 8 Greatest Ideas for Clear Thinking; 13 Greatest Ideas for Productive Thinking; and, more.

Leadership skills are essential for any aspiring manager, and there are no better guides to those skills than the actions and words of great leaders themselves: Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great and Napoleon; Churchill, Charles de Gaulle and Abraham Lincoln; Field Marshalls Slim and Montgomery; and many more. In Effective Leadership Masterclass John Adair, one of the world's foremost experts on leadership training, describes the lessons every manager can learn from the great leaders of the past and how you can apply them to your own management methods. In addition to dealing with more wide-ranging issues, such as whether knowledge and experience are enough to make someone a leader and which are the most effective styles of leadership, this groundbreaking book teaches you the many ways in which you can become a better manager, including how to: - Remain calm under pressure - Make the right decisions - Communicate effectively - Inspire while informing

The Leadership of Muhammad is a study of the life story and leadership skills of the Prophet. John Adair served with a Bedouin regiment in the Arab Legion and this book is full of the fascinating detail of Bedouin culture, highlighting the key leadership skills displayed by Muhammad.

Few managers devote enough attention to the thinking processes they should apply to their jobs. Yet long, energetic hours at work are wasted if business decisions are not logical, clear - and correct. Effective Decision Making is the definitive guide to the crucial managerial skill of creative thinking. In this classic book John Adair, Britain's foremost expert on leadership training, tells you everything you need to know to enable you to analyse your own thought processes, think outside the box and know when to turn to others to help you make your decisions. Including advice on every aspect of the decision-making process, Effective Decision Making will help you to: * Approach problems efficiently and effectively - define objective, collect information, develop options, evaluate, decide and implement * Think in a more imaginative way * Know when to rely on your intuition * Feel more confident about arguing your case * Develop your thinking skills With examples of good and poor decision making, as well as exercises designed to help you maintain and improve your mental fitness, Effective Decision Making will enable you to master one of the most important skills needed to make you an effective leader.

Leaders play an essential role in every aspect of our modern lives and good leadership is an art that is highly prized. Effective leaders not only control, appraise and analyse, they also encourage, improve and inspire. In Effective Leadership John Adair, Britain's foremost expert on leadership training, shows how every manager can learn to lead. Drawing on numerous examples of leadership in action - commercial, historical, military - he identifies the essential requirements for good leadership and explains how you can enhance your personality, knowledge and position to become the best leader you can be. Recognized as the ultimate tool for any aspiring leader, this landmark book will help you to: * Understand leadership - the characteristics and skills you need to be an effective leader * Develop leadership abilities - how to define tasks, plan, brief, communicate, motivate and set an example * Grow as a leader - how to put your leadership skills into practice

In The Art of Creative Thinking renowned expert John Adair offers clear guidelines for developing your full potential as a creative thinker. He helps anyone to overcome barriers to having new ideas and develop a true understanding of the creative process.

Based on the day-to-day realities of management, look at each fundamental aspect of leadership and get accessible guidance for the aspiring leader.

How to Grow Leaders analyses the nature of leadership and identifies the key principles of effective leadership development. It describes how to select, train and educate leaders at team, operational and strategic leadership levels.

Leadership for Innovation will help you to create an innovative climate that encourages the development of new products and services - the lifeblood of business success. John Adair identifies the characteristics of innovative organizations and describes how leaders can encourage new ideas.

The Inspirational Leader, a companion title to the best-selling Not Bosses But Leaders, investigates the nature and practice of leadership, and how to encourage and inspire others.

Time is a precious resource, both irreplaceable and irreversible, yet we often fill our days with time-wasting activities and leave ourselves without enough time for our real priorities. As an effective manager, you need to possess strong time management skills in order to ensure that both you and your team are working as efficiently and effectively as possible and making the most of every hour of the working day. By first encouraging you to analyze where, how and why you are spending your time at present and then think about the future, set goals and develop plans, John Adair, Britain's foremost expert on leadership training, will help you to: Reduce time pressures by ridding yourself of activities that waste time Learn how to save time by delegating Reallocate your time to achieve your goals/produce better results Effective Time Management contains a multitude of indispensable time-saving tips covering every aspect of the working day, such as meetings, reading, travelling or talking on the phone, which will enable you to use your time to think more creatively and help you to see time as an ally instead of an enemy.

Successful management and leadership has never been a greater challenge. Time is stretched, your people are highly motivated but can be highly demanding and business is competitive. Whether you are a first--time manager or experienced leader, straightforward, practical advice on best practice can be hard to find.