Leading from Your Gut
How You Can Succeed by Harnessing the Power of Your Values, Feelings, and Intuition
- Work, Money & Leadership
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Published: 2018
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Publisher's Description
Leading from Your Gut will help emerging and experienced leaders alike to hone their intuition and become the leader they were meant to be. As a leader, your decisions are critical. They have a significant effect on you and everyone around you. But the effective leader needs to have more than just logic, facts, and financials to help make the best choices. Leaders also must access their own intuition, that gut feeling inside. In Leading from Your Gut, you'll learn how leaders excel not just through external competencies and skills but by drawing on their internal world and personal experience. You'll explore how to harness the power of your values, thoughts, emotions, and relationships to better meet the complex demands of leadership. As you apply Townsend's principles, you will see great results in your leadership. But more importantly, you'll experience the kind of personal transformation that will enable you to lead as a whole person. This book is the revised edition of Leadership Beyond Reason.
Endorsements (9)
“In Leading from Your Gut, John Townsend builds on the vital leadership ingredients of smarts and vision and the ability to motivate others with the more intangible quality of “gut,” which is essential to actually accomplishing change that lasts. Hands down, my new favorite leadership book.”
“I mean—honestly—reading what Dr. Townsend writes gives you a totally unfair advantage over everyone else. In Leading from Your Gut, Dr. Townsend—once again—helps us optimize our lives for personal and professional success. Read this one, now, and all of it because you need it.”
“John takes the leader to a new level of performance by demonstrating there is more to leadership than traditional thinking would suggest. John’s principles take you to your logic and your gut, and they work; apply them, and you will become a more impactful and fulfilled leader.”
“from your gut” will help you make the good ones and, just as important, avoid the bad ones. This book is an intriguing and thought-provoking analysis of effective leadership.”
“Just another leadership book? Not hardly! John Townsend challenges us to look beyond the usual sources as we develop leadership skill. Describing the key tools in producing exceptional leaders, John presents a compelling case for going “beyond reason” to acquire all the essential components of a good leader. His thorough assessment of the importance of values, thoughts, emotions, relationships, and transformation is productive and thought provoking. Why would we settle for anything less than a complete toolbox?”
“Dr. John Townsend’s new book, Leading from Your Gut, debuts at the perfect moment, amidst the bedlam of our turbulent times. It presents a magnificent challenge to both seasoned and aspiring leaders to approach leadership from a fresh and redemptive perspective, pivoting on the too long glossed over intangibles—values, thoughts, emotions, and relationships.”
“John reminds us we are in the people business. Many in leadership roles tend to ignore their emotions or assume their influence is negative and a threat to their effectiveness. John presents a compelling case for learning to recognize, integrate, and leverage our emotions for greater leadership results.”
“Sealy Yates and Mike Salisbury, my literary agents: You helped create the big picture of a leadership book that dealt with the internal world and partnered with me in its formation. Thanks for your help in pushing the envelope.”
“Sandy Vander Zicht and Christine Anderson, editors for Zondervan: Thanks for being partners in the process of crafting and honing this book to be engaging and helpful. The team heading up the Townsend Leadership Group: Karen Bergstrom, Dennis Del Valle, Pamela Flores, Christine Ledet, Elaine Morris, Leah Nelson, and Patrick Sells, including each of the directors, consultants, and coaches, as well as the current and alum members of TLP. Thanks so much for your character and competencies in what you do as leaders worldwide.”
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