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Bill George, Peter Sims, Andrew N. McLean, and Diana Mayer

Discovering Your Authentic Leadership

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Group Members
Nayyera Anbreen Faiza Asghar Asmara Rani Maria Abdullah Iffat Saleem

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Introduction
Bill George, the former chairman and CEO of

Medtronic, is a professor of management practice at Harvard Business School in Boston. Perspectives, a class on leadership development at the Stanford Graduate School of Business in California. Harvard Business School.

Peter Sims established Leadership

Andrew N. McLean is a research associate at Diana Mayer is a former Citigroup executive in

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York.

Introduction
Bill George (Cambridge, MA) has spent over

30 years in executive leadership positions at Litton, Honeywell, and Medtronic. As CEO of Medtronic, he built the company into the worlds leading medical technology company as its market capitalization increased from $1.1 billion to $60 billion. Since 2004, he has been a professor at the Harvard Business School. His 2004 book Authentic Leadership (0-7879-7528-1) was a BusinessWeek bestseller.

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Introduction
This article was adapted from True North:

Discover Your Authentic Leadership by Bill George with Peter Sims. over the past five years have led the authors to answer question and the need for a new kind of leader in the 21st century: the authentic leader.

The ongoing problems in business leadership

True North offers an opportunity for anyone to

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Main Body
Author Bill George and his colleagues, conducted the largest leadership development study ever undertaken. They interviewed 125 business leaders from different racial, religious, national, and socioeconomic backgrounds to understand how leaders become, and remain, authentic. Their interviews showed that you do not have to be born with any particular characteristics or traits to lead.

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Summary of the article

Plan centered on five key areas:
Knowing your authentic self Defining your values and leadership principles Understanding your motivations Building your support team Staying grounded by integrating all aspects of

your life

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Shared experiences Of:

Personal, original, and illuminating stories

from Warren Bennis, Sir Adrian Cadbury, George Shultz (former U.S. secretary of state), Charles Schwab, John Whitehead (Cochairman, Goldman Sachs), Anne Mulcahy (CEO, Xerox), Howard Schultz (CEO, Starbucks), Dan Vasella (CEO, Novartis), John Brennan (Chairman, Vanguard), Carol Tome (CFO, Home Depot), Donna Dubinsky (CEO/cofounder, Palm), Alan Horn (President, 4/16/12 Warner Brothers), Ann Moore (CEO, Time, Inc.)

Authors share the wisdom of 125 outstanding

leaders and describe how you can develop as an authentic leader. True North presents a concrete and comprehensive program for leadership success and shows how to create your own Personal Leadership Development . their internal compass can become an authentic leader.

The article shows how anyone who follows

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Main body
Strengths of the article :

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Weaknesses of the article:

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Conclusion
you do not have to be born with any particular

characteristics or traits to lead.

You also do not have to be at the top of your

organization. Anyone can learn to be an authentic leader.

The journey begins with leaders

understanding their life stories. Authentic leaders frame their stories in ways that allow them to see themselves not as passive observers but as individuals who learn from their experiences. These leaders make time to 4/16/12

Conclusion
Authentic leaders also work hard at

developing self-awareness through persistent and often courageous self-exploration. Denial can be the greatest hurdle that leaders face in becoming self-aware, but authentic leaders ask for, and listen to, honest feedback. networks to help them stay grounded and lead integrated lives. period of time is the ultimate mark of

They also use formal and informal support

Achieving business results over a sustained

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Relationship with the course

It is closely related with the course outline as objectives are alligned with course objectives of :
To give a concrete and comprehensive

program for leadership success and shows how to create your own Personal Leadership Development plan. and become the authentic leader you were born to be.

Learn how to transform your leadership path

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