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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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