Scaling Leadership : Building Organizational Capability and Capacity to Create Outcomes That Matter Most

How do senior leaders, in their own words, describe the most effective leadersthe ones that get results, grow the business, enhance the culture and leave in their wake a trail of other really effective leaders? Conversely, how do senior leaders describe the kind of leader that undercuts the organizations capacity and capability to create its future? This book, based on groundbreaking research, shows how senior leaders describe and develop leadership that works, that does not, that scales, and that limits scale.

Is your leadership built for scale as you advance in todays volatile, uncertain, dynamic, and disruptive business environment? This context puts a premium on a very particular kind of leadershipHigh-Creative leadership capable of rapidly growing the organization while simultaneously transforming it into more agile, innovative, adaptive and engaging workplace. The research presented in this book suggests that senior leaders can describe the High-Creative leadership with surprising clarity. They also describe with equal precision the High-Reactive leadership that cancels itself out and seriously limits scale. Which type of leader are you?

You scale your leadership by increasing the multiple on your leadership in three ways. First, by developing the strengths that differentiate the most effective leaders from the strengths deployed by the most Reactive and ineffective leaders. And second, by increasing your leadership ratiothe ratio of most the effective strengths to the most damaging liabilities. Third, by developing High-Creative leaders all around you.

Featured in the July 2019 Business newsletter.
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