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Title: Lead More, Control Less

Subtitle: 8 Advanced Leadership Skills That Overturn Convention

Author: Marvin R. Weisbord, Sandra Janoff

Narrator: Anna Crowe

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 45 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-21-15

Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Business, Leadership

Publisher's Summary:

Unleash Commitment, initiative, and innovation

In their decades of leading groups all over the world, Marvin Weisbord and Sandra Janoff discovered they could get superior results by creating an unconventional approach to leadership. Leaders still need to get everyone aligned around the same goals. But to maximize energy, creativity, and productivity, they gain more by focusing on structure rather than behavior, enabling people to take responsibility and manage themselves.

Lead More, Control Less describes eight essential skills for establishing a culture of autonomy and self-leadership. Using examples and case studies, Weisbord and Janoff describe how leaders can share responsibility, defuse group conflicts, show everyone the big picture, and more. With this approach, leaders truly gain more control by giving it up.

Members Reviews:

An Essential Resource for Leaders, Managers and Consultants

Lead More, Control Less by Marvin Weisbord and Sandra Janoff is the fourth âhome run bookâ that Iâve read that was this highly respected team! As with their other excellent books on organizational dynamics, Future Search methodology and meeting facilitation, this dynamic duo writes books that are enjoyable and enlightening to read, chock-full of great advice and new ways of thinking for leaders of groups and organizations.

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Lead More, Control Less captures the highly regarded teamâs lifeâs work, that of helping individuals lead ways that bring out the best in others by creating and maintaining environments that help people work to their full potential not because they are ordered to but because they see that doing so makes sense. The book outlines 8 practical and effective techniques that principles of adult learning to management and leadership: by treating people like intelligent adults, they are more likely to make intelligent and well considered decisions in collaborative ways. The eight techniques tap into the power and creativity of the group so that they can move forward to futures they envision and plan collaboratively. The techniques are ones that are not immediately obvious, as they seem counter-intuitive, in that they give âcontrolâ of the process to the participants to help them do what needs to be done in ways that work for the participants. Utilizing these techniques truly does unleash tremendous potential in those one seeks to lead.

Lead More, Control Less is an essential and important resource for leaders, managers and consultants; a practical guide for âchanging the world, one meeting at a timeâ, to quote its esteemed authors.

An Excellent Practical Guide to Lead in transformational ways

"Lead More Control Less: 8 Advanced Leadership Skills that Overturn Convention" is a book that puts handles on cutting edge leadership skills. Growing as a leader today means growing yourself. This is a book that delivers a number of new skills that help the leader prepare themselves, the organization and meeting spaces for optimal engagement which in turn produces maximum results. Marvin Weisbord and Sandra Janoff offer the reader practices that will change their leadership style from the inside out. There are 8 key core skills outlined with examples and exercises that help one envision the possibilities and begin to apply these skills immediately.