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Leaders Open Doors
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Leaders Open Doors

A Radically Simple Leadership Approach to Lift People, Profits, and Performance

ASTD Publications, 2014 更多详情

Editorial Rating

8

Qualities

  • Innovative
  • Applicable

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Early in his career, Bill Treasurer discovered to his dismay that he was a bad leader. To become a better one, he read leadership books, studied leadership as a graduate student and wrote his thesis on leadership issues. Yet he didn’t discover the true meaning of leadership until his son’s preschool chose little Ian, age 5, as “class leader” for the day. When Treasurer asked the boy what he did as class leader, Ian explained proudly, “I got to open doors for people!” Treasurer presents his inspiring concept of “open-door leadership.” He dispels the myth that your door should always be open to interruptions, since you’d never get any work done that way. Instead, he says leaders should open doors that give other people opportunities, thus helping their employees’ careers and their own. getAbstract recommends this concise, uplifting and practical manual to leaders and those who want to lead.

Take-Aways

  • Leadership means providing opportunities for others by “opening doors” for them.
  • Opportunity attracts and fortifies people. It provides direction and imagination.
  • Leaders are either “spillers,” negative thinkers who lead through fear, or “fillers,” positive thinkers who lead through optimism and see problems as opportunities.

About the Author

Bill Treasurer, “chief encouragement officer” at Giant Leap Consulting and author of Courage Goes to Work, advocates for people with disabilities and donates his royalties to charities that help special-needs children.


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    J. M. 5 months ago
    Good
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    K. G. 10 years ago
    Open doors come from heart, it's a true care of people!
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    B. W. 10 years ago
    This was great!