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Leading Quietly: An Unorthodox Guide to Doing the Right Thing (Hardcover)

by Joseph L Badaracco (Author) "QUIET LEADERS ARE REALISTS ..." (more)

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Hardcover: 224 pages
Publisher: Harvard Business School Press (1 Jan 2002)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1578514878
ISBN-13: 978-1578514878
Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 16 x 2.5 cm

Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

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Most of us think of leaders as courageous risk takers, orchestrators of major events-in a word, heroes. Yet while such figures are inspiring and admirable, Harvard Business School Professor Joseph Badaracco argues that their larger-than-life accomplishments are simply not what makes the world work. What does, he says, is the sum of millions of small yet consequential decisions that men and women working far from the limelight make every day: how a line worker for a pharmaceutical company responds when he discovers a defect in a product's safety seal; how a manager deals with a valued employee suspected of stealing; how a trader handles a transaction error that will cost a client money.

Badaracco calls them "quiet leaders"-people who choose responsible, behind-the-scenes action over public heroism to resolve tough leadership challenges. These individuals don't fit the stereotype of the bold and gutsy leader, and they don't want to. What they want is to do the "right thing" for their organizations, their coworkers, and themselves-but inconspicuously and without casualties. They do so by being baldly realistic about the complexities of their own motives and those of the dilemmas they face. In today's fast and fluid business world, nothing is as it seems. And they know it.

Drawing from a four-year study of quiet leadership, Badaracco presents eight practical and counterintuitive guidelines for confronting situations in which right and wrong seem like moving targets. Grounding each strategy in an engaging story, he shows how these "non-heroes" succeed by managing their political capital, buying themselves time, bending the rules, and more.

From leaders in the executive suite to aspiring leaders in the office cubicle, Leading Quietly compellingly shows how patient, everyday efforts can add up to a better company and even a better world.

Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. is a Professor at Harvard Business School, the Chair of the M.B.A. Elective Curriculum, and the author of Defining Moments: When Managers Must Choose between Right and Right (ISBN 0875848036, HBS Press, 1997).

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Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. is a Professor at Harvard Business School, the Chair of the M.B.A. Elective Curriculum, and the author of Defining Moments: When Managers Must Choose between Right and Right (ISBN 0875848036, HBS Press, 1997).

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3.0 out of 5 stars a leading business ethics book, 23 Jun 2002

By	Patrick Merlevede (Lembeke, Vlaanderen (Belgium, Europe)) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)

In a period where the ghost of Enron and other business malpractices wanders over the stock markets, a book like this certainly has it's value. However, after reading the book I wonder whether people applying what's written down in this work would have helped to prevent these malpractices, and I must say that I have my doubts. More specifically, instead of doing some whistle blowing, you might decide to back off, in order to save your career. That might be "emotional intelligent" in the sense of understanding the emotional reactions of others against whistle-blowers, but its not really "integer" according to my definition of that word and thus certainly doesn't fit my European interpretation of being an ethical person. That explains why from a business ethics point of view, I prefer Linda Tobey's "The Integrity Moment" or even Badaracco's previous book "Defining Moments".

Actually, when I bought the book, I hadn't fully grasped I was buying a business ethics book. I though I had a leadership book in my hands, which explains my average rating. While its' true that personal restraint, modesty and tenacity are virtues for leaders, if you want a book on leading quietly, I prefer Jim Collins' "Good to Great" by far. His level 5 leadership is also a form of leading quietly, but it's much more a book for people willing to lead in the business meaning of that word.

Patrick E.C. Merlevede - author of "7 Steps to Emotional Intelligence"

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4.0 out of 5 stars How to lead forcefully, but without any noise, 20 Sep 2006

By	Rolf Dobelli "getAbstract.com" (Switzerland) - See all my reviews (TOP 50 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)

This philosophical essay about leadership is not about the kind of leader who makes it onto the front pages of newspapers or into the history books. Instead, it is about average people who labor in the middle to lower levels of bureaucracies, and who do the work that keeps their organizations moving forward. Author Joseph L. Badaracco, Jr., calls these people "quiet leaders." They make decisions that may not appear earthshaking, but that still must take many complex factors into account. Badaracco illustrates the kinds of ethical and moral dilemmas quiet leaders face by extracting guidelines from case studies. However, many of the stories he presents are so commonplace, and the lessons he draws are so self-evident, that the book is hardly the "unorthodox guide" it wishes to be. We recommend this to mid- and low-level managers who are looking for an alternative to traditional ideas about heroic leadership.

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5.0 out of 5 stars More Than You Ever Expected from a Business Book, 4 Jun 2002

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Winston Churchill, a prime example of quiet leadership, appeared anything but quiet when he stepped onto history's stage and led his nation to victory against all odds. Yet, Winston exercised a quiet form of leadership developed over many years of painstaking effort and perseverance. To many Winston appeared unrestrained, but those who knew him best understood Churchill held more in reserve than he ever displayed in public. Tenacious but not vicious, magnanimous in victory, willing to invest time in real deliberation, and willing to compromise where appropriate, Winston Churchill proved more adept a leader than his enemies who were anything but "quiet" leaders either publicly or privately. After reading "Leading Quietly" you should read another business book filled with great illustrations drawn from Winston Churchill's leadership and thinking experiences: "Why Didn't I Think of That? - Think the Unthinkable and Achieve Creative Greatness." Between these two books you will discover why Churchill, rather than Einstein, should have been named Time's "Man of the Century." Behind the Churchill seen publicly existed a quiet, highly effective leader and thinker whose brilliant decisions left his adversaries wondering "why didn't I think of that?"

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