Leading Made Easy: Four Principles for Leadership Effectiveness (Made Easy)

Do you want to improve your effectiveness as a leader? With all the different leadership theories, models, and approaches available for leadership development, finding the method that works best for you can be daunting. In Leading Made Easy, Dr. Alonzo Johnson uses a simple acronym, LEAD, to present four key principles for effective leadership: Learn from Mistakes, Exemplify Competence, Add Value, and Do the Right Thing. The author engages and guides readers through the principles and associated behaviors by using lessons learned from his leadership journey, while interspersing examples from other well-known leaders. Although the LEAD principles can be scaled and used at any leadership level, this book is written in an easy-to-read format with easy-to-understand terms and leadership concepts. This book presents a straightforward, yet effective approach that will increase your effectiveness as a leader and make leading easy.

Alonzo Johnson, Ph.D., is the Managing Partner of The OASYS Group, a talent management consulting company. His expertise includes staffing, organizational, and people development. He is the developer of the LEAD 360° assessment-a companion leadership development tool for this book. Alonzo specializes in creating and conducting leadership development programs that leverage assessments as a foundation on which to build. He has used this approach to help leaders at all levels increase their leadership effectiveness.