Bootstrap Leadership

Table Of Contents

Foreword by Dave Ulrich
Preface
Introduction

Part One: How Are You Showing Up as a Leader?
1. Where Have You Been?: Document Your Leadership Journey
2. Build a Spider Web: Evaluate Your Working Relationships
3. Spin Around in a Circle: Make 3600 Feedback Work for You
4. Your Own Private Detective: Ask a Peer to Track Your Development
5. When the Student is Ready: Find a Mentor
6. Just Like the CEO: Create a Personal Board of Directors
7. Get in the Weight Room: Identify and Leverage Your Strengths
8. Go Back in Time: Ask Past Colleagues about Your Leadership
9. Is There Another Way?: Confront Your Hardest-Held Positions
10. How Am I Driving?: Develop a Vision, Mission, and Strategy

Part Two: Add Something New to Your Game
11. Break Out the Dictionary: Craft Your Own Definition of Leadership
12. Put it In Writing: Prepare a Leadership Development Plan
13. One Year at a Time: Develop One Leadership Skill a Year
14. What Is It That Only You Can Do?: Learn to Delegate
15. The Whistle and the Clipboard: Practice Your Coaching Skills
16. Hit the Books: Read Three Business Titles a Year
17. The Best Thinking Tools Ever Invented: Keep a Journal
18. I Have a Theory: Study Great Leadership Thinking
19. Once Upon a Time: Become a Great Storyteller
20. This is Me: Share Your Leadership Foundations

Part Three: Get Curious About the World around You
21. Take a Trip Around the World: Learn about Other Cultures
22. So This is What We Do: Learn the Business
23. Keep Tabs on Your Friends: Document Your Network
24. That Thing Called the Internet: Leverage Technology
25. Who Are These People?: Get to Know Your Team Members
26. Ask the Experts: Tap Vendors and Consultants for New Ideas
27. Scout the Enemy: Know Your Competitors
28. Go Back to School: Attend a Conference or Seminar
29. Road Trip!: Visit Innovative Companies
30. Bring It Home: Learn Something New – Outside of Work

Part Four: Step Out of Your Comfort Zone
31. Get Outside the Circle: Practice New Leadership Behaviors
32. You’re Right and I’m Wrong: Admit Mistakes and Limitations
33. Become a Member: Join a Professional Network
34. Share Your Story: Organize an Internal Speaker’s Bureau
35. Tell the Boss You’re Bored: Take Charge of Your Own Career
36. Love the Numbers: Learn to Read Financial Statements
37. Build the Business Case: Give Great Presentations
38. A Healthy You: Bring Energy to Your Work
39. Write Your Own Screenplay: Imagine Yourself in Future Roles
40. Question Everything: Review Your Strategy Twice a Year

Part Five: It’s Not About You
41. It’s All About Them: Showcase Your People
42. Give Something Back: Help a Nonprofit Organization
43. What the Boss Needs to Hear: Provide Feedback up the Ladder
44. Extend Your Reach: Spend Time with Your Broader Team
45. Your Most Precious Resource: Set Priorities for Your Time
46. Step Up to the Podium: Teach a Course inside Your Company
47. Talk to Yourself: Ask Three Questions Every Day
48. Join the Volunteer Army: Donate Your Leadership Skills
49. The Best Advice Ever: Become a Better Listener
50. Welcome the New Guard: Write a Letter to Your Successor
Where Do You Go From Here?
Figures
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
About the Author