The Language of Transition in Leadership

By Jakob van Wielink, Riet Fiddelaers-Jaspers, Leo Wilhelm

Book cover of The Language of Transition in Leadership: Your Calling as a Leader in a World of Change

Book description

In this book, the authors utilise their decades of experience in leadership and coaching for change to help leaders develop the necessary skills to lead people and organisations in transition. Combining a scientific and practice-based approach, they show readers how to develop and maintain their own impactful leadership style while…

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1 author picked The Language of Transition in Leadership as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

I met Jakob van Wielink at a conference and was very impressed with him, his knowledge, and his approach, and that made me determined to get hold of the book on leadership he had co-written. I was not disappointed.

So much of the literature on leadership recycles what has been known for years, but this book instantly struck me as fresh and innovative. I love the idea of leadership as a ‘calling’ and I found the use of attachment theory to be very insightful and thought provoking.

The focus of the book is on change, something that so many managers…

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