Mavericks

How Bold Leadership Changes the World

Edition: 1 Date: 03/03/2022 Price: £19.99 ISBN Paperback: 9781398604391 ISBN Ebook: 9781398604407 Pages: 224 Format (mm): 234x156 Product Category: Professional/General Subject: Leadership « Teaches readers to challenge the status quo and enhance positive growth in their organizations by channelling their inner maverick « Anchors exceptional leadership within making changes for the better: bettering ourselves, our teams and environment but also the rest of the world « Brings in exciting examples of maverick leaders from all walks of life to inspire; including Dame

Steve Shirley, Reggie Nelson, Annmarie Lewis OBE and Jamshedji Tata « Unearths five characteristics that all maverick leaders have and that we can cultivate in ourselves and others: passionate belief, being undeterred, resourcefulness, directionality and being experimental

Description

How many of our business leaders truly embody the change needed in the world of work and beyond? Not nearly enough. This book shows you how to reclaim your power to make a difference, by unleashing your inner maverick.

Organizations are where the world’s most innovative and impactful talents lie; we have the ingenuity, the technology and the resources to change the world for the better. Discover how to awaken the maverick mindset in you; one that will question, debate and enhance. Mavericks are the key to answering some of the world’ most pressing challenges; they don’t settle for anything less, and neither should you. Mavericks shows you how being a maverick isn’t about shooting from the hip and rocking the boat for the sake of it, it’s about demanding better of yourself and your organization for the wider good.

In Mavericks, business consultants, London Business School faculty members and authors David Lewis and Jules Goddard guide you through the five characteristics that you can develop to become a maverick leader. From passionate belief, an undeterred attitude, being resourceful, being directional and finally experimenting, these characteristics are the blueprint for you to grow into an iconic and positive change maker. The focus is not on what becoming a leader can do for you, but on what you can do to make the world a better place.

Author Information

David Lewis is a guest lecturer at London Business School and Hult International Business School. A global business consultant, cited on the Thinkers50 Radar of top global management thinkers, he is based in London, UK.

Dr Jules Goddard is a Fellow of London Business School. He has written extensively on strategy and leadership and his corporate clients include Orange, Tata, Danone, Toshiba, and Rolls-Royce. He is based in London, UK. Tamryn Batcheller-Adams is a psychologist and leadership development consultant who has worked with leaders in over 20 countries. She is based in Cape Town, South Africa.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1 Belief: We should do better 2 What makes a Maverick leader? 3 Resourcefulness: Connecting people, ideas and assets 4 Nonconformity: The instinct to question 5 Experimental: Learning through trial and error 6 Undeterred: Resisting opposition 7 Maverick styles of leadership 8 Maverick forms of organization 9 Maverick states of society 10 Becoming a Maverick leader 11 References