A new edition of the bestseller that has helped aspiring leaders worldwide advance their careers and step up to larger leadership roles.You aspire to lead with greater impact. The problem is youre busy executing on todays demands. You know you have to carve out time from your amp34day jobamp34 to build your leadership skills but its easy to let immediate problems and old mindsets get in the way.Herminia Ibarraone of the worlds foremost experts on leadershipamp8212shows how individuals at all levels can step up to leadership by making small but crucial changes in their jobs their networks and themselves. In Act Like a Leader Think Like a Leader Ibarra offers advice toRedefine your job in order to make more strategic contributionsDiversify your network so that you connect to and learn from a wider range of stakeholdersBecome more playful with your selfconcept allowing your familiaramp8212and possibly outdatedamp8212leadership style to evolveIbarra turns the usual leadership adviceamp8212generate insight about yourself through reflection and analysis of your strengths and weaknessesamp8212on its head by arguing that you must first act and experiment your way into trying new things. The valuable external perspective you gain from direct experiences and experimentationamp8212which Ibarra calls outsightamp8212provides new and critical information on what kind of work is important to you how you should invest your time why and which relationships matter and ultimately who you want to become.Updated with new examples and selfassessments this book gives you the tools to start acting like a leader and advancing your career to the next level.