Find Your True North
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Summary
It is a unique inner compass formed by a person's deepest beliefs, values, and principles, guiding them to have a clear purpose and maintain the right direction in leadership.
Authentic leadership examples from 172 outstanding leaders
Through 3 stages, 5 areas, and 5 levels
helping you become a new-generation leader with greater global wisdom
The first edition of Finding Your True North contained the life stories of 125 leaders and, upon its release in 2007, immediately became a business classic. Now this classic work has been expanded and updated, newly introducing interviews with 47 leaders (including Warren Buffett, Paul Polman, and others).
Bill George believes that the new generation of leaders comes into contact with global multiculturalism earlier and turns diverse life experience into a unique advantage. They favor a holistic life philosophy that integrates work and life, and insist on remaining true to themselves in different settings. Finding Your True North provides the new generation of leaders with a concrete and comprehensive leadership development plan and shows how to plan the path to leadership success.
This book can guide you to find your own true north, hold fast to your mission and values on life's long journey, and ultimately realize your life's value in building consensus and leading others.
Editor's review
Who it's for
A good fit for
- Managers who want to improve leadership from the starting point of values
- Professionals facing career transitions or confusion about direction
- People interested in authentic leadership and self-awareness
- Business school students who need supplementary reading for leadership courses
Not a good fit for
- Readers looking only for quick management tips and tool lists
- Readers impatient with interview-based narrative
- Readers who have not yet taken on team or organizational responsibility and have no related need
Reading tips
- Read the chapter defining true north first and write down your current inner compass in your own words.
- After each leader's story, compare their values and choices and note one insight for yourself.
- Using the book's stage and level framework, choose one area that troubles you most and practice it on a small scale.
- Reread the relevant chapters monthly to check whether your true north remains consistent in action.
About the publisher
China Science and Technology Press (also known as the Popular Science Press) has traditionally focused on popular science books, scientific and technical monographs, science journals and textbooks. Its 87 titles in our catalog show how its list extends into the humanities and social sciences: cross-disciplinary works on science and history such as Nuclear Blast Shockwave and Fish Feasts: A History of Human Survival and Evolution; investment classics including John Bogle on Index Funds, The Money Game and Warren Buffett's Letters to Managers; biographies and cultural histories such as Zhou Yueliang's Collected Works: A Biography of Wang Yangming and Style and Civilization: The Extravagant Everyday Life of the Victorian Era; and management titles such as Advantage Negotiation: A Wharton Business School Negotiation Course. Its authors include Stephen Walker, John Bogle, Zhou Yueliang and Ruth Goodman, with translations and original works both represented. Because public information is limited, this description emphasizes the publishing directions reflected in our catalog rather than other aspects.
Contents
- 版权信息
- 自序 致敬世代领导者的北极星——沃伦·本尼斯
- 引言 下一个100年仍旧需要真诚领导
- 第一部分 开启你的真诚领导之旅
- 第1章 成就你的人生故事
- 第2章 人生故事指引真北的方向
- 第3章 磨炼是机遇，也是阶梯
- 第二部分 培养真诚领导力，找到你的真北
- 第4章 发展自我意识
- 第5章 以价值观为中心行事
- 第6章 把握最佳平衡点
- 第7章 组建支持团队
- 第8章 规划整合式生活
- 第三部分 用真北指引领导旅程
- 第9章 完成从“我”到“我们”的转变
- 第10章 确认领导目标
- 第11章 建立授权型文化
- 第12章 超越真北，成为全球领导者
- 结语
- 附录A 30个问题帮你找到真北
- 附录B 《找到你的真北》新增领导者
- 致谢
- 作者简介
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About the author
Bill George is a management author whose writing centers on leadership; three of his books are currently included in this collection. Publicly available information about his nationality, dates of birth and death, and educational background is limited, so no speculation is offered here. Judging from the works included, his writing revolves around the concept of the "True North," exploring how leaders can use inner values and life experience as a compass to keep their bearings under pressure and temptation. True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership draws on the first-person accounts of many leaders to illuminate the relationship between leadership and personal character; Finding Your True North continues this theme with greater emphasis on readers' self-examination and self-positioning; and the Internet-plus edition of True North extends the discussion to the context of the internet and business transformation. Overall, his books are popular management reading, written in plain language and distinguished by interviews and cases, with an emphasis on leaders' self-awareness and integrity; they suit readers interested in personal growth and organizational management.
Shi Honghui is a Chinese translator who has long worked on English-language books in business management and popular psychology. Public information about her is limited, and few details of her life are available; her choice of titles nonetheless shows a focus on practical subjects such as leadership, personal growth, and mental well-being. Her translations include Bill George's True North (Internet Plus edition) and Finding Your True North, John Perkins's Confessions of an Economic Hit Man (including the revised collector's edition), and Jessica Ortner's two Tapping Solution titles on weight release and body anxiety. Most of these books were published by Chinese presses and fall under management, health, and applied psychology. Her work calls for both accuracy in specialized terms and readability in plain language, and her translations offer Chinese readers a window into Western ideas on business leadership and emotional healing.
