INNER LEADERSHIP

REALIZE YOUR SELF-LEADING POTENTIAL

SIMON SMITH

"This is a highly accessible book, with simple and powerful concepts that can be applied from the first moment you read them, which can make a significant difference to how you perceive yourself and how others perceive you."
Amanda Alexander, Partner, KPMG.

"Inner Leadership takes a different and remarkable approach to leadership as a journey of discovery. Anyone who wants to realise his or her leadership potential can follow a carefully described path that is rich with illustrative examples and insightful exercises. I recommend Inner Leadership to anyone who is committed to transforming and empowering themselves or organisations for superior results."
Raj Dhingra, Vice President, 3Com Corporation

The horizontal and open structures of the knowledge-based economy have changed all previous notions of management and leadership. Today our own particular knowledge or position on a project makes us more influential than ever before. We all now have the power to increase both our individual and a company's effectiveness.

Based on an established applied psychology, Inner Leadership is a systematic process to unlock the depth of resources we all carry but few of us access. Inner Leadership allows you to 'take the lead' and make a significant contribution wherever you sit in your company. It can help you unlock the spirit you have within you, build a firm ground for action, make decisions and lead. This moves away from the need for a hero leader to make decisions and instead turns each of us into leaders.

Using many case studies, exercises and and real business examples, Simon Smith introduces the REAL model - four stage process which allows you to realize your leading potential by:

• Recognizing your strengths, limitations and qualities
• Exploring the parts of your personality, purpose and values which influence your decisions, thoughts and actions
• Actualizing your qualities for achieving your leadership goals
• Leading others to push the boundaries and think for themselves

You already have all the resources within you that you need, and Inner Leadership is a practical and disciplined process which provides you with the tools to access these resources and use them to achieve what you want to achieve.

Simon Smith spent twenty years in the financial and investment sector as an investment analyst and venture capitalist. Much of his work was concerned with privatizations and the management of enormous cultural and personal change. Intrigued as to why some privatizations were hugely successful while others failed, he undertook a 4-year psychology training course to increase his understanding of himself and others.

He now works as a change consultant and counsellor with Creative Learning Consultants and numbers among his clients multinational public and private companies in the UK and Europe, as well as individuals who want to increase their effectiveness. He is also the founder of Mentoring Ltd through which he promotes the Inner Leadership programme.

"A fascinating and stimulating piece of work. Smith encourages us to look at ourselvesas individual leaders and examines, through a series of simple exercises and case studies, what enables us - and disables us - to achieve our goals. To realise that one's potential, in the workplace and outside, is totally unlimited, and that the word 'can't' need not exist in our inner vocabulary, is one of the many powerful conclusions."
Rob MacMillan, Consulting Manager, Nicholson International - Executive Search Consultants

Visit the book's website at http://www.inner-leadership.com.