Leadership Lessons, Volume 2

Essays on How to Become More Effective and Improve Organisational Performance

By: James B. Rieley

Narrated by: James B. Rieley

Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins

Publisher's summary

Leadership Lessons, Volume 2 is a book that is all about how to improve organizational performance. According to the Oxford Dictionary, an essay is “a short piece of non-fiction about a particular topic”. The essays in this book are an accumulation of various projects that I have been involved in for more than a dozen years. The term “projects” spans quite a range of subject matter and purposes for their existence. The reality is that the central focus of all these essays is improving the ability to understand the dynamics at play that are impacting their organizations. The purpose is to help organizations and the people within them to be able to realize their individual and collective potential.

Often business-type books require that a listener slog all the way through until a light bulb might possibly go on. By writing this book as a series of short essays, with some luck, listeners will be able to listen in almost ‘’bite-size’’ increments, with each essay standing on its own. This makes Leadership Lessons perfect for travel or breaks between meetings. The essays contained in the subsequent minutes are played more or less chronologically in the order that they were written in, with many of the essays being titled in the form of a question. The reason for the title being in the form of a question is that whilst most any manager in an organization will be (or should be) looking for answers, it should be clear that if you don’t learn to ask better questions, you will never get the answers you really need.

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Actionable, Digestible, and Enjoyable

Jim Rieley has a gift for providing managers and executives tactical and practical advice on how to build organizational capabilities. While the business literature is replete with obtuse tombs on managerial theory, Leadership Lessons Volume 2 cuts through the noise. It lays out in very approachable bite-sized prose what leaders need to really focus on. Most importantly, it helped me view the value of my employees, their capabilities, and their potentials, in a whole new light. It is easy to get mired in the EXCELS and quarterly plans that define the days and nights of the modern corporate leaders. Leadership Lessons reminds readers to pick their head up, engage their teams, and create a culture of shared alignment.