TY - BOOK AU - Ashton,James TI - The nine types of leader: how the leaders of tomorrow can learn from the leaders of today SN - 9781789666960 AV - HD57.7 .A84 2021 U1 - 658.4092 23 PY - 2021/// CY - London PB - KoganPage KW - Leadership KW - Management KW - Executives KW - Psychology N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Section - 00: Introduction;Section - 01: Alphas;Section - 02: Fixers;Section - 03: Sellers;Section - 04: Founders;Section - 05: Scions;Section - 06: Lovers;Section - 07: Campaigners;Section - 08: Diplomats;Section - 09: Humans N2 - Through candid interviews and encounters with some of the world's most successful business people, find out what makes great leaders tick, learn what it takes to be credible and read about the things that they'd do differently if they had to do it all again; Find out what makes great leaders tick, learn what it takes to be credible and read about the things that they'd do differently if they had to do it all again. The Nine Types of Leader introduces some obvious and some not so obvious types of leader through stories, anecdotes and insight garnered from hundreds of encounters with world-class leaders. Featuring interviews with industry titans including Jean-Francois Decaux of JC Decaux, Michael Rapino of Live Nation, Zhang Ruimin of Haier, Gavin Patterson of Salesforce and Isabelle Kocher of Engie, it explores how the leaders of tomorrow will improve their game by borrowing from the very best of the nine types of leader that exist today.Renowned journalist, James Ashton assesses the strengths and weaknesses of each leadership type, highlighting where and when they are best deployed, whilst helping you identify who you are and how you can improve performance. As the world seeks to recover from drastic disruption and uncertainty and the most acute test of leadership in living memory, it projects how future leaders can learn from what has gone before ER -