Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader Updated Edition

"Whether you are on track to be promoted, or you are just trying to steer your professional development in a different direction, this book acts as a guide to get you to the next chapter of your career." - Chief Talent Officer

Advance Praise for Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader:

"Have you had it with navel-gazing? In this terrific book, Herminia Ibarra offers the antidote. She reframes the leader's quest as a process of looking outward rather than inward and includes smart, practical suggestions for expanding your leadership opportunities." - Daniel H. Pink, New York Times bestselling author, The Power of Regret

"Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader provides insightful and practical advice about how to do the hardest thing of all-change ourselves." - Linda A. Hill, Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School; coauthor, Collective Genius

"Herminia Ibarra has created a valuable and successful model for helping forward-thinking professionals move up the corporate ladder." - Marshall Goldsmith, founder, 100 Coaches; bestselling author, What Got You Here Won't Get You There

"Ibarra powerfully demonstrates how 'outsight' trumps insight for producing sustainable personal growth and provides practical, easy-to-follow lessons on how to use it." - Stewart D. Friedman, Professor of Management Practice, Emeritus, The Wharton School; bestselling author, Leading the Life You Want and Total Leadership

"Ibarra takes future leaders beyond the normal platitudes to a deeper and richer understanding of what it is to become a better leader." - Lynda Gratton, Professor of Management Practice, London Business School; bestselling author and coauthor, Redesigning Work and The 100-Year Life

"This intelligent and thought-provoking book is for those who really want to make a difference-those willing to act their way into leadership situations they might previously have thought themselves out of." - Paul Polman, former CEO, Unilever; coauthor, Net Positive

"In Act Like a Leader, Think Like a Leader, Herminia Ibarra provides us with a wonderfully practical way of taking control of our own leadership transformation." - Tim Brown, cochair, IDEO; author, Change by Design