What if being an exceptional leader means understanding the leader you already are and choosing to become more than the leader you are now?
In Being an Exceptional Leader, Dr. John Thinnes draws on more than 25 years of teaching graduate-level leadership courses, 17 years of management experience at Fortune 100 companies, and consulting with organizations worldwide to explore two essential questions:
What does it mean to be a leader today?
And what does it take to become more than the leader you are now?
Leadership is not something we are born with. It develops through experience, learning, self-awareness, and the choices we make about how we engage with others. Yet forces we may not even recognize can disconnect us from leadership and keep us from becoming exceptional leaders.
Being an Exceptional Leader helps readers identify the beliefs and behaviors that shape their leadership self-image, enabling them to create a unique path toward becoming more than the leader they are. Through research, practical leadership tools, case studies, and probing end-of-chapter questions, readers learn to recognize their leadership strengths and limitations and how forces work against their leadership potential, so they can make more deliberate choices about how they want to be leaders.
Along the way, Dr. Thinnes introduces methods to strengthen leadership behaviors, improve engagement, build trust, collaborate more effectively, and develop stronger working relationships.
Whether you are an experienced executive, an emerging leader, or someone seeking greater impact in your organization, Being an Exceptional Leader offers a practical, reflective approach to leadership development.
Exceptional leadership is not a destination. It is a path-the choices you make determine how far you can go as a leader.
