John Adair Lexicon of Leadership

John Adair is the world's leading authority on leadership and leadership development. Over a million managers worldwide have taken part in the Action-Centred Leadership programmes he pioneered. John was also the only British national serviceman to serve in the Arab Legion, where he became adjutant of a Bedouin regiment. He is the author of over 50 books, many of which are published by Kogan Page, including the classics, Not Bosses but Leaders and Leadership of Muhammad.

• Chapter - 00: Introduction;Section - ONE: Not bosses but leaders;Chapter - 01: Qualities of leadership;Chapter - 02: The circles interact;Chapter - 03: Leaders or managers?;Chapter - 04: High-performance teams;Chapter - 05: The purpose of industry;Chapter - 06: Moving from plans to action;Chapter - 07: Sharing and caring;Chapter - 08: Leadership and power;Chapter - 09: Leadership from within;Section - TWO: The inspirational leader;Chapter - 10: The three basic approaches;Chapter - 11: The authority of knowing;Chapter - 12: Levels of leadership;Chapter - 13: Giving and receiving;Chapter - 14: Beyond the call of duty;Chapter - 15: The common task;Chapter - 16: Pulling the threads together;Chapter - 17: The why question;Chapter - 18: The test of leadership;Section - THREE: How to grow leaders;Chapter - 19: The qualities approach;Chapter - 20: The group or functional approach;Chapter - 21: Leaders or managers?;Chapter - 22: The Situational Approach;Chapter - 23: Levels of leadership;Chapter - 23a: How to grow leaders – The seven principles;Section - FOUR: Leadership and motivation;Chapter - 24: Functional Leadership;Chapter - 25: Action-Centred Leadership;Chapter - 26: The Fifty-Fifty Rule;Chapter - 27: Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs;Chapter - 28: The application of Maslow’s ideas in industry;Chapter - 29: Herzberg’s Motivation – Hygiene Theory;Chapter - 30: How to motivate others: the eight principles of motivation;Chapter - 31: Parting reflections – towards a new theory of motivation;Section - FIVE: Leadership for innovation;Chapter - 32: What is innovation?;Chapter - 33: The conditions for successful innovation;Chapter - 34: Organizing for team creativity;Chapter - 35: Case Study: The DNA Laboratory;Chapter - 36: Case Study: Soichiro Honda – Leader for innovation;Chapter - 37: Real commitment from the top;Chapter - 38: How to motivate the creative individual;Chapter - 39: Team creativity;Chapter - 40: Harvesting ideas;Chapter - 41: Overcoming resistance to change;Section - SIX: The art of creative thinking;Chapter - 42: On human creativity;Chapter - 43: Use the stepping stones of analogy;Chapter - 44: Make the strange familiar and the familiar strange;Chapter - 45: Widen your span of relevance;Chapter - 46: Practise serendipity;Chapter - 47: Chance favours only the prepared mind;Chapter - 48: Curiosity;Chapter - 49: Keep your eyes open;Chapter - 50: Listen for ideas;Chapter - 51: Reading to generate ideas;Chapter - 52: Keep a notebook;Chapter - 53: Test your assumptions;Chapter - 54: Make better use of your Depth Mind;Chapter - 55: Do not wait for inspiration;Chapter - 56: Sharpen your analytical skills;Chapter - 57: Suspend judgement;Chapter - 58: Learn to tolerate ambiguity;Chapter - 59: Drift, wait and obey;Chapter - 60: Sleep on the problem;Chapter - 61: Working it out;Chapter - 62: Think creatively about your life

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