Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader

De: Herminia Ibarra

Narrado por: Jennifer Van Dyck

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a bigger range of stakeholders; and become more playful with your self-concept, allowing your familiar—and possibly outdated—leadership style to evolve.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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©2015 Herminia Ibarra (P)2023 Ascent Audio

Action over doubt

Really enjoyed this book.
Act like a leader if you plan on being one. Simple advice offered in a very concise way.
Reverse, thinking before doing, logic. Be a leader today, you want to become tomorrow.

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!”

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.

Wish I found this book at my career start!

While university education often molds individuals into "technical experts," this book illustrates that the skills required for technical expertise are not necessarily those needed for effective leadership. "Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader" offers practical guidance on transcending technical proficiency to embrace leadership roles more fully. I wish I had discovered this insightful book when I first started my career; it would have been incredibly beneficial.

Actionable tips on how to transform yourself to become a leader you aspire to be

The ideas presented in this book were very different from conventional thinking and I really appreciated the calls to action and many suggestions to implement for stepping up to leadership.
I took a lot of notes listening to this book and had a lot of aha moments.
This was definitely worth listening to and I will be coming back to my notes for sure. Thank you!