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Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader

By: Herminia Ibarra
Narrated by: Jennifer Van Dyck
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You aspire to lead with greater impact. The problem is you're busy executing on today's demands. You know you have to carve out time from your day job to build your leadership skills, but it's easy to let immediate problems and old mindsets get in the way. Leadership and development expert Herminia Ibarra shows how managers and executives at all levels can step up to leadership by making small but crucial changes in their jobs, their networks, and themselves. In Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader, she offers advice to help you redefine your job in order to make more strategic contributions; diversify your network so that you connect to, and learn from, a bigger range of stakeholders; and become more playful with your self-concept, allowing your familiar—and possibly outdated—leadership style to evolve.

Ibarra turns the usual "think first and then act" philosophy on its head by arguing that doing these three things will help you learn through action and will increase what she calls your outsight—the valuable external perspective you gain from direct experiences and experimentation. As opposed to insight, outsight will then help change the way you think as a leader: about what kind of work is important; how you should invest your time; why relationships matter in informing and supporting your leadership; and, ultimately, who you want to become.

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Brilliant Commonsense Scholarly Insights

In this book Dr. Ibarra shares her deep expertise and insights based on her exceptional scholarship and real life practice. This is one of the six books I will be sharing and reading with my team in 2024. This is great book for students, scholars, and practitioners.

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FRESH MBA GRAD

I’ve been working through Ibarra’s content at the recommendation of my MBA mentor. Currently I’m a creative solopreneur and have been building my craft/business for 20+ years - these concepts still apply! This book and (Working Identity) have been helpful in understanding the process that was already taking place in my life that I didn’t understand when I went to college in my mid-30s! I’m also thankful for the highlight to “midlife moments as career/midlife are intricately intertwined. I think there needs to be more content out there on navigating “midlife!”

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Completely failed to catch my focus. Tried to listen to it through so I could catch any tidbits that might grasp my attention, but gave up. Reader refers frequently to sidebars and pictographs, which is a fail for an Audible audience. Hopefully, others will find it useful and helpful.

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