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  • The Leader's Checklist Expanded Edition

  • 15 Mission-Critical Principles
  • By: Michael Useem
  • Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt
  • Length: 2 hrs and 43 mins
  • 4.3 out of 5 stars (10 ratings)

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The Leader's Checklist Expanded Edition

By: Michael Useem
Narrated by: Erik Synnestvedt
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Based on the lessons from astonishing stories, solid research, and years of leadership development work with a wide array of companies and organizations in the United States and abroad, Useem presents today’s leaders with 15 guiding principles that form the core of the Leader’s Checklist, which will help you develop your ability to make good and timely decisions in unpredictable and stressful environments - for those moments when leadership really matters.

To illustrate how the Leader’s Checklist can assist leaders, Useem zeroes in on accounts of extraordinary leaders who rose to the challenge, including Laurence Golborne’s role in the triumphant rescue of 33 miners in Chile, Joseph Pfeifer’s remarkable heroism as the first FDNY Fire Chief to take command at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, and Union officer Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain’s transformative actions after the Confederate army’s surrender. He also explores the colossal failure of AIG, one of the greatest corporate collapses in business history.

First published exclusively as an ebook - and now also available in print - this updated and expanded edition features a new preface by the author and three new Knowledge@Wharton interviews with Laurence Golborne, Chile’s Minister of Mining, on leading the rescue operation of 33 miners trapped in the San José Mine; Joseph Pfeifer, New York City Fire Department’s Chief of Counterterrorism and Emergency Preparedness, on being the first Battalion Chief to take command at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001; and the author on why he wrote The Leader’s Checklist and what he has learned about the most vital items on the checklist from his recent leadership development work with more than a dozen companies and organizations.

©2011 Michael Useem (P)2014 Gildan Media LLC
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“One of the most brilliant, original, and exciting leadership books I’ve read in a long time. On top of all that, it will be the most useful and concise book on leadership you’ll ever read!” (Warren Bennis, Distinguished Professor of Business, University of Southern California, and author of Still Surprised: A Memoir of a Life in Leadership )

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Short Concise model for leadership

this was a very short and concise model for leadership. I highly recommend it for individuals interested in developing their own Leadership Model

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Good playbook and a reference material

I had the privilege of attending Professor Michael Useem's online classes during my CTO program at Wharton. This experience has enabled me to better relate core leadership topics to the roles of any CXO.

I plan to use some chapters as a playbook and others as reference material.

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Have a checklist for different situations.

Great book but…Weird they left out any discussion of building 7 and how it wasn’t even on the Commission Report. And how strange it was for 3 buildings hit by 2 planes could just collapse “like” a controlled demolition rather than falling to the side.

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