The Best of Adair on Leadership and Management

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This book is a goldmine of ideas, advice and techniques from one of the world's leading thinkers on management and leadership. Reformatted and with a new foreword by John Adair, it distills in one book the best of all of his thinking and writing on effective leadership, teambuilding, creativity and innovation, problem-solving, motivation and communication.

Clearly written and presented, the book is packed with practical guidance and shrewd insights, with a large number of valuable charts, diagrams and forms. It is a repackaged and updated edition of the best-selling John Adair Handbook .

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Foreword (p. iii)
• Part 1 Self-Management (p. 1)
• 1 Time Management (p. 3)
• Introduction (p. 4)
• Developing a personal sense of time (p. 6)
• Identifying long-term goals (p. 11)
• Making medium-term plans (p. 13)
• Planning the day (p. 16)
• Making the best use of your best time (p. 19)
• Organising office work (p. 21)
• Managing meetings (p. 23)
• Delegating effectively (p. 26)
• Making use of committed time (p. 29)
• Managing your health (p. 30)
• Summary and six-month follow-up test (p. 34)
• 2 Setting and Achieving Goals and Objectives (p. 37)
• Introduction (p. 38)
• Personal goals and objectives (p. 38)
• Professional/business goals and objectives (p. 41)
• Summary and six-month follow-up test (p. 45)
• 3 Decision-Making and Problem-Solving (p. 47)
• Introduction (p. 48)
• Decision-making skills (p. 48)
• The manager as decision-maker (p. 51)
• Key elements of effective thinking and decision-making (p. 53)
• Other useful approaches (p. 55)
• The concept of value in decision-making (p. 58)
• Decision-making and weighing up the options (p. 59)
• Summary and six-month follow-up test (p. 62)
• 4 Creativity and Innovation (p. 65)
• Introduction (p. 66)
• Creativity (p. 67)
• Innovation (p. 70)
• Summary and six-month follow-up test (p. 85)
• 5 Part 1: Personal Reminders and Thoughts Worth Thinking (p. 87)
• Introduction (p. 88)
• Time management (p. 89)
• Setting and achieving goals and objectives (p. 103)
• Decision-making and problem-solving (p. 108)
• Creativity and innovation (p. 110)
• Part 2 Managing Others (p. 127)
• 6 Leadership and Teambuilding (p. 129)
• A. Leadership (p. 130)
• Qualities of leadership (p. 133)
• Functions of leadership (p. 135)
• Leadership skills (p. 142)
• Developing leadership skills (p. 158)
• B. Teambuilding (p. 159)
• Summary and six-month follow up test (p. 169)
• 7 Motivation and People Management (p. 171)
• Introduction (p. 172)
• The 50:50 rule (p. 173)
• Needs and motivation (p. 174)
• Managers/leaders and motivation (p. 179)
• Getting the best from people (p. 182)
• Summary and six-month follow-up test (p. 192)
• 8 Communication and Presentation (p. 195)
• Introduction (p. 196)
• Issues in communication (p. 196)
• Listening (p. 199)
• Reading skills (p. 201)
• Writing skills (p. 202)
• Speaking and presentation skills (p. 206)
• One-to-one interviews (p. 211)
• Managing meetings (p. 213)
• Within your organisation (p. 215)
• Summary and six-month follow-up test (p. 216)
• 9 Part 2: Personal Reminders and Thoughts Worth Thinking (p. 219)
• Introduction (p. 220)
• Leadership and teambuilding (p. 220)
• Motivation and people management (p. 234)
• Communication and presentation (p. 240)