Learn to lead, no matter who you are, with the tools, techniques, and inspirational stories found in this guide.
Anyone can lead. You don't have to be a CEO or work in a management position to have influence. Your Leadership Moment provides practical tools, techniques, and inspiration to discover your leadership potential. It combines personal and real-world anecdotes with a framework for Adaptive Leadership that can help anyone learn to lead.
In this book, you will discover what a Leadership Moment is, the key concepts of Adaptive Leadership, how to stop perfectly solving the wrong problems and start creatively solving the right problems, and how to make real, positive change.
Author and leadership expert Eric Martin has brought leadership development to the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in over one hundred countries. Eric's work draws on Adaptive Leadership, an unconventional and somewhat provocative leadership practice developed at Harvard by Drs. Ron Heifetz and Marty Linsky-and further refined by Alexander Grashow. Your Leadership Moment teaches Eric's expansion on Adaptive Leadership in a way everyone can understand.
Praise for Your Leadership Moment
"Martin combines relentless optimism with hard-nosed realism in powerful stories of people like you and me who saw a leadership opportunity and refused to sit on the sidelines. Each of us has the potential for a leadership moment." -Dr. Marty Linsky, faculty at Harvard Kennedy School & author of The Practice of Adaptive Leadership
"An adaptive leadership truth-telling about defining moments of our times. A compelling read for people and companies who seek to challenge the status quo and survive." -Lauren Serota, head of performance & talent at Patagonia
"Your sense of yourself and what is possible will be elevated on the other side of reading this book." -Alexander Grashow, author of The Practice of Adaptive Leadership
Autorentext
Eric Martin, a Detroit native turned prominent leadership expert, specializes in leadership development and systems change. Eric's work has been used to tackle challenges to transition to a low-carbon economy, improve health equity and access, and evolve the role of advanced technologies in our daily lives. Over the past decade, he has brought leadership development to the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in 146 countries. Eric's work draws on Adaptive Leadership, an unconventional and somewhat provocative leadership practice developed at Harvard by faculty Drs. Ron Heifetz and Marty Linsky and by Alexander Grashow, with whom he has mentored and worked.
Eric has served in an advisor/speaker/leadership trainer role at: Acumen, Rockefeller Foundation, Google, Microsoft, Verizon, US Business Council for Sustainable Development, White House Presidential Personnel Office, United Nations Innovation Network, World Bank, Cornell University, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, The Sustainability Consortium, Democracy Fund, National Academy for Science Engineering & Medicine, Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, National Association for County and City Health Officials (NACCHO), Forum for the Future, LEAD India, Patagonia, USAID and The Aspen Institute. Previously, he served in various roles at The Synergos Institute, a Rockefeller-affiliated international development organization. Eric holds an MS in Organizational Change Management and BS in Systems Analysis and Operations Research. Eric's work has been published in such places as: Fast Company, Stanford Social Innovation Review, and Environmental Leader.
Klappentext
Take Adaptive Leadership to the Next Level and Seize Your Leadership Moment
"Each of us has the potential for a leadership moment. Reading this book will help you find yours." Dr. Marty Linsky, faculty at Harvard Kennedy School & author of The Practice of Adaptive Leadership
#1 New Release in Business & Money Skills and Office Management
Adaptive Leadership was introduced to the world in 1994 by Ronald Heifetz and Marty Linsky of the Harvard Kennedy School. Author Eric Martin brings an expansion and distillation of Adaptive Leadership to new life for novices and advanced leadership practitioners alike, building on his work with Heifetz and Linsky.
Next level of Adaptive Leadership. Your Leadership Moment draws on the extensive personal research, travel, conversations, and reflections of author Eric Martin, a prominent leadership expert. His quest to 'democratize leadership' has taken him around the world from the White House to the foothills of the Himalayas. Through stories of success and failure, Martin teaches what's possible when people discover the capacity and courage to lead regardless of identity, history, or access to power and financial capital.
Be an authentic leader who changes the world. Your Leadership Moment is an account of the democratizing leadership of three ordinary people leading extraordinary change. It's an exciting expansion of Adaptive Leadership that can help anyone learn to lead. Your Leadership Moment provides tools and techniques to discover and leverage your leadership moments for a better world.
Your Leadership Moment empowers you to:
- Understand a Leadership Moment and key concepts of Adaptive Leadership
- Stop solving the wrong problems and start solving the right problems
- Think politically and mobilize others to make real, positive change
- Stop getting in your own way
If you liked The Practice of Adaptive Leadership, Leadership on the Line, or An Everyone Culture, you'll love Your Leadership Moment.
Inhalt
Introduction: Standing in the Heat
PART ONE | WHERE TO BEGIN?
Chapter 1: Leadership Moments
Chapter 2: If Anyone Can Do It, Why Isn't Everyone?
Chapter 3: Democratizing Leadership
PART TWO | WHAT'S YOUR LEADERSHIP CHOICE?
Chapter 4: Breaking Ranks
Chapter 5: Authority
Chapter 6: Leadership
Chapter 7: Recognize Your Leadership Moment
PART THREE | WHAT'S THE "WORK" OF LEADERSHIP
Chapter 8: The People with the Problem are the Solution
Chapter 9: Recast the Work
Chapter 10: What's Your Leadership Work?
PART FOUR | WHOSE LEADERSHIP WORK IS IT?
Chapter 11: Leading on the Verge of Schism
Chapter 12: Mobilize Others
Chapter 13: What's Holding You Back from Leading?
PART FIVE | WHAT WILL YOU LET GO OF?
Chapter 14: A Separate Self...for an Interconnected Whole
Chapter 15: Authority...for Freedom
Chapter 16: Knowing...for Becoming
Chapter 17: Ready Yourself
PART SIX | A HIDDEN WHOLENESS
Chapter 18: Acceptance
Chapter 19: A Path Opens
The Purpose of Your Leadership Moment
Acknowledgements
Notes