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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 158.4 EAN: 9781594850349 ISBN: 1594850348 Label: Mountaineers Books Manufacturer: Mountaineers Books Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 430 Publication Date: November 30, 2007 Publisher: Mountaineers Books Studio: Mountaineers Books Editorial Review: Product Description: Dynamic and effective leadership skills-from the organization that has spent decades helping people discover their own potential to lead. Outward Bound has been teaching leadership internationally for more than sixty years. In the United States alone, some 700,000 people have learned life-changing, transferable leadership skills and strategies through Outward Bound experiences. You don't need to summit a mountain to learn these invaluable skills. Now anyone can benefit from Outward Bound USA's collective wisdom and experience, as articulated by its top leadership experts. Leadership the Outward Bound Way introduces readers to the fundamentals of good leadership: communicating effectively, building trust, building teams, overcoming fear, taking risks, and making decisions. The book explores how these leadership basics can be applied in different areas of life-in outdoor travel and recreation, in the office or the boardroom, and in community work or volunteerism. The text is punctuated by accounts of real-life events during Outward Bound programs, call-outs of key points and helpful tips and case-study exercises. This leadership approach is based on a teaching method developed at the Harvard Business School that challenges and informs readers about how to respond to real-life leadership situations. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Leadership the Outward Bound WayThe book approaches leadership from the point of view of a leader organizing a group of individuals for an expedition and leading them through this expedition, with all its human and natural challenges. It accurately captures the fundamental principles of human interaction applicable to everyday life from the wilderness to the board room. Subsequent chapters take these teachings and apply them to the professional and community life. Much of the actual contents can be found in a number of other ... Read More Rating:  - Good content, slow paceAs an alum of the Hurricane Island Outward Bound school, I was very interested to discover this book. The book uses case studies which I have always found to be a great learning tool. The content is very detailed (good), but as a result, the book can be a bit of a slow read at times (bad). The content is most relevant to outdoor leadership, but most of the lessons can certainly be applied in everyday situations. I liked that this book does not contain any impractical graphs, lists, charts, ... Read More Rating: - Great combination of leadership and Outward BoundMy interest in leadership has been growing in the last couple of years and when I saw the opportunity to learn more about leadership and Outward Bound at the same time, I jumped at the chance. To be able to summarize this book in a review doesn't seem to do it justice as the amount of depth in this book continues to surprise me. I've been amazed at how much I've been underlining in my copy and pondering over before I move on. I like how the book is broken down into four sections which makes it easy ... Read More Rating: - Exceptional Look at Outward BoundThis is arguably one of the best hands-on books about Outward Bound. It captures accurately the fundamental princples of human interaction from the perspective of this 40-year old institution. The book is designed for anyone wanting to understand how to become an outdoor educational leader, or for those who can apply these same leadership expeditionary principles to every day life. The book comes from the point of view of a leader getting a group together and leading them through an outdoor expedition, ... Read More Rating: - A good book for leaders and leaders to beI was not familiar with Outward Bound before reading this book. Afterwards, I thought how great it would be to attend an Outward Bound course. That being said, you can still learn a lot from this book even you haven't heard of Outward Bound, it teaches many aspects of leadership, including leadership in the workplace, the outdoors, and in the community, all of which I have an interest in. I especially liked the case studies and real life examples that were presented throughout the book. |
