The 5 Best Books on Future Leadership: Do Like Nike {Read Tip}

As a manager, you have to take on and master many roles depending on the situation. A trend that is in Future will intensify. An example could be Nike-Founders be Phil Knight.

Executives and their roles

In his book, Hans-Jürgen Kratz presents the most important ones and shows in a comprehensible manner what leeway you have and how you can act.

Executives fill a whole range of roles in their work. They judge achievements, protect their position, or stand up for theirs Employees. And different behaviors are required in each role. But which seasoned manager is actually aware of these different roles? And does this awareness actually materialise?

33 important roles - for thought

The author Hans-Jürgen Kratz chooses an original approach for his book and identifies 33 roles of a manager, which he arranges alphabetically.

Each of these roles is sometimes more, sometimes less pronounced in professional life. The author dedicates a short completed text to each of them.

Listener, activator, brakeman - colorful and versatile

The different roles of a leader are about as colorful as the mix of the people and characters you are dealing with. A good leadership must be able to listen, it must activate the unleashed potential of employees, but over-motivated brakes. Three reel examples, which may be known to many.

Each role is presented briefly and vividly. At the center of each section are, according to the brief description of the problem or the role, practical advice on the best approach.

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A book that invites you to think

Here Kratz also does not stop difficult situations, for example, talks. The book invites you to think and becomes a useful reference book, which is pulled out of the shelf if necessary.

Leadership roles is a clear and practice-oriented guide. It is thought-provoking and helpful Everyday life. A worthwhile read for old hands too.

From the life of a “shoe dog”

Everyone knows Nike, but little is known about its founder, Phil Knight. Until now he has mostly stayed out of the public eye, but now he has his biography and at the same time that of his Company submitted. A very exciting and interesting read!

"Shoe Dogs" are "people who have dedicated themselves to the manufacture, sale, purchase and design of shoes, people who have worked so hard and so long in the shoe business that they no longer think of anything else could not speak to anything else ”.

The runner and his shoes ...

Such a "Shoe Dog" is undoubtedly Phil Knight, the founder of the Company Nike, the one with one Turnover of $32,4 billion and $3,7 billion net profit today, the largest sporting goods manufacturer Welt.

In his biography, Knight, who was himself a talented and passionate runner at a young age, tells his life on 441 pages, and he does so in a very personal and entertaining way.

An author who speaks of his weaknesses and fears

The man who narrates here is not an accountant or a boring "number cruncher". On the contrary: The main role in this book is played by people, people who were important in building and developing the company.

nm Knight's book is human on every page, especially Phil Knight himself, who in no way presents himself as a great pike and superstar, but very openly about his weaknesses, his fears and his quirks.

Numbers are important, but people are more important

All this makes the reading incredibly exciting and entertaining. The superbly written and excellently translated book is a biography, but it reads like a novel. Like a good, an exciting, an entertaining novel.

A great book for anyone interested in sports and/or Economy interested. Brilliantly written, excellently translated, exciting and entertaining to the last page.

A clever book for young executives

Manager – what now?” provides good tools for those new to leadership. Very practical, practical and clear, it helps the new Tasks fast and get a good handle on it.

Another book about Guide? Does it have to be that way? There are already so many. That's what some might think when reading the new book "Leadership - what now?" by Tacy M. Byham and Richard S. Wellins in the hands gets.

Well, that is true, there are in fact a great number of books on the subject of leadership. But anyone who says that it is enough and you don't need another one could also say that we don't need any further start-ups - because we already have so many companies ...

The basic knowledge for first-time leaders and front-line leaders

The book consists of two parts. The first part is titled “Catalytic Leadership”. It's about them Basics the work of a manager.

The authors understand a “catalytic manager” to mean a manager who sees his main task in supporting his employees in enabling them to develop their full potential. You can also put it this way: The most important task of a manager is to help others that they can experience success.

Concrete (over) life support for the professional leadership day

In the second part of the book entitled “Leadership-Skills and the Skills of the Professionals”, the key skills of a manager are examined more closely. This is where it gets down to business.

The chapters are called, for example, “What you Executive really want from you ”,“ Basic rules of feedback ”,“ Delegating ”,“ Dealing with difficult employee situations ”or“ You and yours Network”. The authors also address the special challenges faced by female managers (“Be 'in control of the situation').

A book that just wants to help

What about the book “Manager - what now?” Two things are particularly appealing: In the best sense, it is absolutely unpretentious and solely shaped by the will of the authors to help young managers master their new tasks.

On the other hand, the approach that Byham and Wellins call “catalytic” appeals: Afterwards, the most important task of a manager is to give employees a sense of achievement. A clever and helpful book from practice for practice.

Cooperation instead of alphage

Today THE book for a new generation of leaders. Tenor: You don't have to be a careerist to Career close. And don't put on an alpha demeanor to run a big shop. A prompt, social thinking and Commitment not to move to the end of the day, but to live in the job.

Who do you think of when you think of “successful doers”? Rede is? To the species of dominant alpha animals like Jeff Bezos, Josef Ackermann or Steve Jobs? Guys who could not only fill an executive chair with their ego, but entire rows of seats in the stadium?

Adam Grant has other people in the Sinn, quiet, cooperative types, yours Head not on tv and not reading her name in the newspaper need to get personal Success to enjoy. From "givers".

Leadership and personality pattern of successful manager

In his book "Give and Take", Adam Grant started looking for leadership and personality patterns of successful managers and entrepreneurs. And made some interesting discoveries. He identified two different types:

• There are the “takers”, types of success who pursue their goals with brute force and “always link favors with conditions”.
• On the other hand, there are the “donors” who make advance payments and do not immediately harvest the field that they have just ordered. Those who build social networks with patience and do not outweigh their cooperative gestures in dollars or applause. Grant dedicates his book to them.

The father of the “Simpsons”

The author portrays people who have achieved groundbreaking successes not because of, but because of their responsible leadership style. Even if their heads rarely or never adorn the manager magazines. Like George Meyer. Common name, nobody knows? That's right, but do you know the Simpsons and the “Letterman”?

Meyer has the funny characters with his snappy Humour put a personal stamp on it. According to Grant, Meyer's "comedic impact" and his "enormous creativity" with the Personality rooted in the giver. His success is not based on going it alone, but on cooperation. His colleagues thanked him for this by “admiring and trusting his comic genius”.

Once the call is ruined ...

In numerous case studies, Grant reveals that donors swim upstairs in the long term, and takers pay for the (short-term) successes at some time the colliery.

Because sooner or later “as the central stars in the solar system of your company” you will lose confidence and credibility. Sympathy is already playful: "If you are a taker and everyone in the world knows about your relationships and your reputation, it is more difficult to have sustainable success."

The success of your partners will be your success

spread takers Anxiety, givers get that Respect given because they act as role models. Because you are clever, because “the more intelligent you are, the more you help your negotiating partner to be successful yourself”. Top manager Sherryann Plasse sums it up aptly:

“Being a donor has contributed to my personal and professional success. It is liberating. ” And how do you become a giver (again), even though the recipient qualities have long outweighed? By critically questioning the competitive orientation in favor of the original “set of values”. Sounds like it's definitely worth trying.

We only see what we believe!

"Give and take" is 400 pages of evidence that decency, empathy and social responsibility are justified even on the executive floors. Right there! Because they can replace the phased-out model of patriarchal leadership structures.

So it is fitting that our next book tip is about selective perception and illusions. A topic not only for the Business- Everyday life is very interesting. Because this book shows: We only see what we believe!

The invisible gorilla is always there!

Hardly any business seminar can do without the "gorilla video". You can see two teams throwing a ball in a confined space. The Audience will be asked to count the touches of the team in the white t-shirts.

After a minute it is Fun over and the audience's responses vary according to awareness 34 or 35 ball contacts. The funny thing is that because of the focus on counting, hardly anyone notices that in the middle of the video, a guy in a gorilla suit is walking around, drumming on his chest and walking away.

An experiment is going around the world

The two Harvard psychologists Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons carried out this experiment over twelve years ago. The scientists only feel slow because of the tremendous response this work has received clear that they encountered a "basic principle" of the human mind.

No flattering, however. Because through their experiment they have proved that our perceptive ability can not be so far when we overlook a black gorilla in a video. We get to see what is happening in front of our nose. But, according to the researchers, all this is just an illusion. The illusion of attention.

Imagination is also an education

Now they've both written a book - about six all-too-human illusions about having everything under control. In addition to the illusion of attention, they reveal the illusion of memory (we think we remember, but instead we invent it) or the illusion of self-confidence (we are drawn to people who are bursting with self-confidence).

There is also the illusion of knowledge (the newspapers are full of evidence of this illusion every day), the illusion of the cause (we like to put things in context that have nothing to do with each other) and the illusion of possibilities (sounding children with Mozart to make them smarter).

Food for skeptics

To substantiate their theses, they quote interesting studies and illustrate them using strange and memorable stories.

The Invisible Gorilla upsets some of our certainties. It shows that there are doubts when it comes to having 100% trust in our upper storey. Managementbuch.de - Conclusion: Interesting reading material that gives skeptics of human reason plenty of food."

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