Amazon Leading YOU Category:  Business/Investing ISBN-10:  1942718012 ISBN-13: 9781942718017 The most important driver of overall success is your own self-leadership. Without it, your career may stall. Why? Because how you lead yourself directly impacts your ability to lead others, and that, in turn, can prevent you from reaching your full career potential.  In Leading YOU, the companion book to the award-winning Would YOU Want to Work for YOU?, Senior Executive Coach Brenda Bence reveals the 15 most damaging self-leadership behaviors she regularly sees in her practice.  She then provides dozens of tips and techniques you can immediately apply to correct or improve these behaviors. Packed with real-life executive coaching case studies from around the globe, this book will help you: - strengthen your Executive Presence and build an outstanding leadership brand. - Quit acting like a victim of your calendar, your time, and "the system." - Utilize powerful mind management techniques to stop limiting behaviors. - Learn how to successfully manage "up" to bosses and "across" to peers. Promote yourself without bragging, to help you gain visibility and the job you want. - Successfully influence others even if you dont have an official title or authroity

Reviewed by Romuald Dzemo for Readers' Favorite
Leading YOU: The Power of SELF-LEADERSHIP to Build Your Executive Brand and Drive Career Success by Brenda Bence is one of the best books on leadership I have read since 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey. It is an incredible tool for leaders and anyone who aspires to a position of influence and leadership. The book has great wisdom for anyone seeking to lead a purpose-driven life to create focus and cultivate winning habits. Written for executives, this slim but useful book builds on the premise that one can’t effectively lead others without effective self-leadership. Indeed, how can you get others to follow when they don’t see that you’re a good follower?
Brenda Bence combines the wisdom of many years working as a Senior Executive Coach to create an awareness in readers of the top fifteen damaging self-leadership habits and provide tools and techniques on transforming them. This book will help any executive leader to develop strategies in self-management and self-leadership that will boost their credibility, give them the power they require to effectively lead others, help them pin-point the common weaknesses that are often overlooked by leaders, weaknesses that can wreck their leadership and organization.
Leading YOU: The Power of SELF-LEADERSHIP to Build Your Executive Brand and Drive Career Success lays great foundations for a successful career in leadership, a message that any leader will want to hear. The writing is concise and clear and Brenda Bence’s voice comes across with
energy and authority. This is a book with a unique and important take on an aspect of leadership that is so often ignored.