Publisher's Synopsis
An esteemed executive coach shows managers and leaders how they can achieve personal and professional success-and leave a mark on the world.
Dr. Joelle Jay's The Inner Edge: The 10 Practices of Personal Leadership draws on timeless principles and Jay's experiences with hundreds of leaders from America's most successful and admired companies, setting out ten essential components of leading well and living well.
In The Inner Edge, Dr. Jay offers customized coaching to help leaders overcome challenges, leverage opportunities, and maximize their talents, teams, and time. Through vivid examples, conversations with accomplished leaders, insightful perspectives on leadership, and thought-provoking questions and exercises, Jay shows readers that leadership is not just a label, but a way of life. Finding your edge, gaining clarity, focusing and taking action, expanding your knowledge-under Jay's training these and other principles become concrete achievable assets for living and leading. The result is an essential resource for helping leaders get results for their organizations in a way that capitalizes on-and enriches-their own unique identity.
- Includes a foreword by internationally renowned executive coach Howard Morgan, cofounder and managing partner of the Leadership Research Institute and the author of The Art and Practice of Leadership Coaching
- Provides exercises and worksheets-original versions of the same tools and techniques used by top executive coaches to help leaders succeed in their roles and for their organizations
- Offers vivid examples and quotes from real leaders based on over 100 interviews with top leaders in some of the nations biggest, most admired companies
- Includes reference notes for every chapter
