Finding Your Voice: Learning to Lead . . . Anywhere You Want to Make a Difference

By Larraine R. Matusak

Book Overview

A remarkable book, the only one I know that focuses on how 'ordinary citizens' can learn to lead. Well-written and down-to-earth, more importantly, it is powerful testimony to the possibilities within all of us. --Warren Bennis, university professor and Distinguished Professor of Business Administration, School of Business Administration, University of Southern California Offers a practical set of tools to provide the knowledge and skills necessary for effective leadership, and shows how individuals without a title or position of power can pursue their passion and fit leadership opportunities to their specific talents.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0787903051
• ISBN13: 9780787903053
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Finding Your Voicxe: Learning to Lead.. Anywhere You Want to Make a Difference

Excellent resourceful reading text for those in Education who might be pursuing an administrative role.

Excellent Book - Must Read

This book helps everyone understand they are a leader. It also helps you to find out where you may want to lead.

A Great Book!

This book is an excellent leadership resource, especially for those just beginning to explore leadership definitions. I have used it in leadership training and it is well written and has good illustrations that make the ideas very real and practical.

A book for everyone who wants to make a difference

This is a book for all persons who dream of making a difference. It helps you get past mental models of inadequacy and then gives some explicit stories of persons who did some pretty remarkable things although they never had a title or position of authority. To lead is to serve is the major premise of the book. Belongs in the hands of every person in every community.