The Ingredients of Leadership: Finding the Personal Power For Moving People and Organizations Into the Future (Monograph)

Each year James E. Lukaszewski has the privilege of working with many, many senior and chief executives across the full spectrum of business activity: the corporate sector, government, military, non-profit organizations, and more. One powerful driving concept comes through in each of these settings ? the gut-level desire to transform the organization, or to transform how the organization thinks; or to transform the attitudes of a group of individuals or customer base. Personal, top executive leadership is the transformational force that energizes people and organizations to achieve big goals. Leadership is a lonely obligation. Every leader, no matter how many followers, is an individual actor, sharing ideas and concepts, mostly verbally, in the hope of producing a result that benefits the operation and the people whose lives those operations affect, and that the goals set are achieved. The question every leader asks repeatedly is, “How can I effectively move the organization forward in some way everyday?” When loyalty is at a premium and markets and workplaces seem so unstable, what is the force that brings focus and forward momentum? There are crucial behaviors important people, successful executives, and true leaders use to move processes and people forward. These behaviors are the key ingredients of leadership. The more of these ingredients leaders take to heart, teach, and expect of others, the more power they will have to achieve their objective. In this monograph Jim shares his 11 behaviors or ingredients, if applied with sincerity, are quite simple, sensible, quite positive, and very doable.