{"product_id":"the-absolutes-of-leadership-9780787909420","title":"The Absolutes of Leadership","description":"\u003cb\u003eLeadership is learnable\u003cbr\u003eA Warren Bennis Executive Briefing Series Book\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003eCrosby is taking his message to a different audience--a growing army of intelligent young men and women who are setting out to become executives by choice and for the right reasons.\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cb\u003eCentral Florida Business\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn this, his eleventh book, world-renowned consultant Philip Crosby offers readers a simple, yet ingenious method for assessing the skills of those they've been assigned to follow, as well as their own leadership abilities. Leaders, he says, come in five versions?Destructor, Procrastinator, Caretaker, Preparer, and Accomplisher. And by examining each of those character types in relation to his four Absolutes of Leadership, the author establishes a framework would-be leaders can use to build quality leadership skills of their own.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCrosby also discusses the leader's role in organizational finance and quality, and in dealing with customers, suppliers, employees, and bosses.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eYou know a leader when you meet one, he asserts and he maintains that those people who already have leadership potential will blossom once they understand and epitomize the precepts set forth in this groundbreaking work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Jossey-Bass\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/12\/1997\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780787909420\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 144\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.07h x 7.04w x 0.33d","brand":"Philip B. Crosby","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40843610620085,"sku":"9780787909420","price":18.7,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_714d34fe-bee0-4dae-9bd8-691d8fc7ed9f.jpg?v=1629808866","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-absolutes-of-leadership-9780787909420","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}