The world is moving at a faster pace than ever before. Nowadays, organizations are becoming very complex and posing a serious challenge to the organizational leaders to manage the organization effectively and efficiently. At the same time, this is also a proved fact that the success of any organization heavily depends upon the leadership ability of the head of the organization. With this backdrop, this book offers a clear and inspiring road map for today's leaders and those of the future by clearly explaining how to set tough standards, continuously raise aspirations, and nurture high energy teams in order to achieve organizational objective effectively and efficiently.

The basic intention of the authors behind writing this book is to guide those who want to become successful leaders in their domain. The world is eagerly waiting for great leaders in all walks of life and at the same time this is also a truth that no major achievement comes without effort and a little bit of luck. This book is offering a perspective on leadership from a different angle, i.e., reptilian and mammalian side of leadership. The reptile and mammalian metaphors can help us visualize the enormous range of challenges that leaders face, and equip them to deal with challenges efficiently and effectively. Successful leadership engrosses both the heart and mind as both interpersonal and analytical skills are vital for leadership. To be a good leader, one has to be tough as nails (reptilian excellence) and warm as toast (mammalian excellence).

Very often people use the term leaders and managers interchangeably but both are different. Being a good manager does not essentially assure leadership success. Management is fundamentally about order and control, and leadership is fundamentally about achieving goals and bringing about change. Management requires planning, organizing, directing, and controlling. These managerial functions are crucial for organization's wellbeing as they offer a script, role, guidance and feedback to different members of the organization, while leadership requires native talent, developed abilities, and the ephemeral but critical qualities of vision, inspiration, imagination, innovation, risk taking, perspective, passion, excitement and chemistry. Though both leadership and managerial abilities can be developed, the probability of developing adequate managerial abilities in promising leaders is better than that of developing deep leadership qualities in proficient managers. Given the tangled nature of leadership and management, both kinds of abilities can be developed to some degree, if shortcomings of an individual are carefully assessed and acknowledged.

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