Leading: The Way — Behaviors That Drive Success
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Behave well, and people will follow you to the ends of the earth. Behave poorly, and … well, the headlines are littered with examples of leaders who lost everything in the wake of bad behavior. While there are many examples of how things can go wrong in a hurry if the people at the top of a company misbehave, the scale of the misbehavior doesn’t have to be as grand as what is featured in headline news. Companies can die the death of a thousand cuts, those little transgressions in leadership that ultimately undermine the entire organization. I coach my clients to understand that behavior is something they can control. You can’t control genetics, you can’t control IQ, you can’t control situations or the economy or world events or stock prices, but you can control your behavior. You can choose to be a good leader, and you can choose to be an even better leader. It’s that simple.
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“Research based yet highly practical, Leading: The Way shows you how to transform your leadership style; communicate effectively up, down, and across; boost employee engagement; and exemplify vision and purpose. Get the complete picture of what’s working, what’s not working, and what you can do to improve from Paulette Ashlin’s straightforward, behavior-based strategies! A terrific resource!” —Marshall Goldsmith, world-renowned executive coach and New York Times best-selling author of Triggers, MOJO, and What Got You Here Won’t Get You There The key to being a great leader isn’t luck or being gifted, highly educated, or unusually driven. The key to being a great leader is behavior. Great leaders behave in great ways. In Leading: The Way—Behaviors That Drive Success, author Paulette Ashlin teaches you how to adapt your behavior to appropriate situations, which will inspire people to listen to you, to believe in you, and to follow your lead. A worldwide leadership and business coach, Ashlin shares behavior-based strategies to transform your leadership style and attain professional success. Leading: The Way discusses how knowing your strengths and weaknesses is not enough; you need to understand how to behave your way into your aspired roles. It highlights the general principles of effective leadership that revolve around the core concepts of self-awareness, self-control, humility, integrity, empathy, global intelligence, personal stewardship, and performance. Using personal anecdotes drawn from her coaching experiences, Ashlin offers guidance on how to become a leader and remain a leader. She emphasizes the importance of responding to, changing, and improving your behavior to become the best you can be.
About the Author
Paulette Ashlin earned a master’s degree in industrial/organizational psychology from the University of North Carolina, Charlotte, and a bachelor’s degree from Davidson College. She is a leadership and business coach and founder of Ashlin Associates, a management consulting company. Ashlin and her husband have two children and live in North Carolina.