Breakthrough Leadership: How Leaders Unlock the Potential of the People They Lead

Publisher Marketing: This book is an introduction to breakthrough leadership. It is a new frontier in leadership because it is concerned, not only with what leaders do, but with the impact they have on the people they lead. It is based on a decade of applied research into three key issues: - 1. What is it that leaders do to inspire the people they lead? 2. What are the impediments to the development of potential that these leaders help their people to breakthrough? 3. How can organisations build competitive advantage by unlocking this potential in their workforce? In essence, Breakthrough Leadership is the process by which leaders inspire their followers to grow, to perform and to develop more of their potential. They do this by helping them to remove the impediments to that development. A great deal of the limitations that people experience in their work is self imposed and related to self limiting thinking. This book identifies the six distinctive behaviours that leaders adopt which can help their people to breakthrough this self limiting thinking. Organisations today have moved towards performance cultures in their search for growth. Managers globally have been trained in the skills of performance leadership and as a consequence there have been great gains in productivity. The next productivity leaps for organizations will come from realizing the untapped talent that exists in the workforce. This book is the culmination of a decade of work with companies such as CSL, Cisco Systems, Wesfarmers, Fuji Xerox into change and transformational leadership Contributor Bio:  Lee, Terry As a native Houstonian, a rarity these days, I hold two licensures in the state of Texas: one in chemical dependency counseling, the other in massage therapy. In 2004, I trained to be a volunteer for Houston Hospice, a life-changing training session I believe would benefit all. Hospice, contrary to popular belief, is not about dying. Hospice is about helping you live until you die. Although writing has been a part of my genetic lineage, the writing bug didn't officially bite until 2007. From that point on, my true life passion sprouted and came into full bloom. I'm an observer by nature...ask any close friend or family member. I've studied lines and movie dialogues for years, which can often become annoying to said above friends and family (I can see them nodding in agreement). I'm married to a wonderful man and have a passel of grandchildren I adore. As a hobby, I crochet baby/security blankets (quite obsessively) for the Linus Project. Crocheting keeps my hands busy at night while I study movies and sit-coms for story ideas. I have always said I will learn to knit when I grow up. So far, that hasn't happened. You can visit me at my website www.terry-lee.net and welcome to my world!