John Olin Adair

Leadership for Innovation: How to Organize Team Creativity and Harvest Ideas (The John Adair Leadership Library)

New ideas and new ways of doing things are one of the main ingredients in sustained business success, but how does onecreate the right conditions for innovation?Leadership for Innovation will helpreaders create an innovative climate that encourages the development of new products and services. Drawi...

Not Bosses but Leaders: How to Lead the Way to Success (The John Adair Leadership Library)

This pioneering work from leadership expert John Adair has transformed our understanding of how leadership works and how executives can become business leaders. Accessible guidance on exactly whatone needs to become a leader is presented in the form of a dialogue with a young business executive, and...

Leadership and Motivation: The Fifty-Fifty Rule and the Eight Key Principles of Motivating Others (The John Adair Leadership Library)

John Adair transformed our understanding of how leadership works with his pioneering book Not Bosses But Leaders. Here he explores the nature of motivation, individual needs and how they relate to the key tasks facing leaders and managers. Positive motivation, he argues,can create, maintain and impr...

The Inspirational Leader: How to Motivate, Encourage and Achieve Success (The John Adair Leade)

The Inspirational Leader argues that leaders are not born but made. Taking the form of conversations between a young chief executive and the author, it explores the nature and practice of leadership. John Adair disects each aspect of leadership so that the key skills areavailable to adopt and to use...

Strategic Leadership: How to Think and Plan Strategically and Provide Direction (The John Adair Leadership Library)

Every organization needs a strategic leader. This is the leader who steers the organization in times of change while motivating and inspiring their team.Strategic Leadership encourages leaders to focus on tomorrow rather than yesterday. It explores the nature and origin of strategic leadership, tran...

The Art of Creative Thinking: How to Be Innovative and Develop Great Ideas (John Adair Leadership Library)

The Art of Creative Thinking provides clear, practical guidelines for developingone's powers as a creative thinker. Using examples of entrepreneurs, authors, scientists and artists, John Adair illustrates a key aspect of creativity in each chapter.Stimulating and accessible, this book will helpreade...

Decision Making and Problem Solving (Creating Success)

Line managers and leaders of all levels need to ensure that problems are solved in the optimal way and that the ideas and innovations for tomorrow's business flow freely. Decision Making and Problem Solving helps them master the processes of practical thinking which lie behind effective decision mak...

How to Grow Leaders: The Seven Key Principles of Effective Development (The John Adair Leadership Library)

How to Grow Leaders is an authoritative account ofleadership development, the nature of leadership and how it can be taught.John Adair identifies the seven key principles of leadership development and answers vital questions on how to select, train and educate leaders. In doing so he discusses topic...

John Adair

John Adair (January 9, 1757 May 19, 1840) was an American pioneer, soldier and statesman. He was the eighth Governor of Kentucky and represented the...

John Adair (author)

For other people named John Adair, see John Adair (disambiguation). Professor John Eric Adair (born 18 May 1934) is a British academic who is a leadership...

Action-Centred Leadership

The Becoming Church

Effective Leadership

A Life of John Hampden, the Patriot (1594-1643)

Roundhead General:a Military Biography of Sir William Waller: A Military Biography of Sir William Waller

Training for Communication

The Pilgrims' Way: Shrines and Saints in Britain and Ireland

The Royal Palaces of Britain