Standout Leadership - Hardcover

by Rabei A. a. Wazzeh (Author)

Leadership is not something you are handed. It is something you become.

Think of the best leader you ever worked for, and the worst. You already know which one you would follow anywhere. This book is about how to become that one.

Drawing on twenty-five years in business transformation and in the succession and development of leaders, Rabei A. Wazzeh traces leadership the way it actually travels: outward, from the self to one person, from one person to a team, and from a team to a culture that carries your influence long after you have left the room.

The book moves through four parts:

Leading Yourself: knowing who you are, what you stand for, and the line you will not cross.

Leading Individuals: presence, listening, trust, and the quiet work of mentoring.

Leading Teams: earning the right to lead, giving people a why, sharing power, and disagreeing well.

Leading Cultures: the rooms you are not in, the stories that carry, and the leaders you leave behind.

Through the stories of leaders famous and unknown, from Shackleton on the Antarctic ice to the waiter who taught a young Sidney Poitier to read, Standout Leadership shows that the qualities people follow are not titles or talents. Credibility, presence, trust, and courage are built one choice at a time, by anyone willing to lead on purpose.

Whether you manage a team, hope to one day, or simply want the people around you to be better for your being there, this is a book about the leader you can become, starting from wherever you stand.

You are more than you think.