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Put your unique leadership style into practice

LEAD! Book 2: Developing Your Leadership Style is a transformative guide to developing a unique, personal leadership style. Gregory H. Garrison’s LEAD! Book 1 helped readers find their personal, intrinsic foundation for leadership; LEAD! Book 2 completes the curriculum with techniques, methodologies, and case studies to unlock their potential and evolve that leadership identity into an effective management practice.
 
LEAD! Book 2 leverages Garrison’s wealth of experience, providing global wisdom and personalized insights through practical lessons and case studies. It transcends theory, exploring proven approaches to creativity and innovation, team building, organizational design, and managing outsourced and remote teams. It gives readers the methods, processes, and tools to shape a leadership practice that works in the real world.
 
LEAD! Book 2 complements management MBA programs, executive education, and corporate training, and guides ascendant middle managers, management consultants, students, trainers, and mentors to navigate daily leadership challenges in an authentic and fulfilling way. It empowers readers with practical tools and strategies to transform their leadership skills from ordinary to extraordinary.

Reviews

'"identity is possibly the most important and misunderstood aspect of leadership. Every leader is unique. Recognizing and developing our own secret sauce is the key to being an effective and authentic leader. Greg Garrison is a great leader and a great teacher of leadership. This book is required reading for anyone who aspires to lead in a way that makes a positive difference in the world.”
—Des Dearlove, cofounder of Thinkers50

“Garrison makes a big difference. Enlightened leadership is important to almost every business breakthrough. The ability to improvise is critical to his team's success.... Garrison is an impresario, creating a new way of doing business as he goes. Garrison's flexibility is essential to this exceptional success story.”
—Tom Peters
 
“His unique approach pushes at the frontiers of current management thinking and could radically redefine the nature of organizations.”
—The Financial Times

"In this volume, Greg Garrison further develops his convincing ideas about leadership,  ideas that weave together important academic texts with his own frontline industry experience and inspirational guidance. In doing so, Garrison provides the reader, whether or not a leader of a multinational corporation, leader of a start-up, or of a local community group with inspirational guidance to help steer their own practice."
—Dr. Richard Adams, reader in entrepreneurship, Cranfield School of Management

"10,000 hours? Garrison has 100,000 hours as a successful, innovative, senior line manager. Pay heed and Lead!"
—Jim Sterne, author, speaker, and consultant

“[Garrison is] an internationally known speaker…a tech guru.”
Silicon Republic

"Greg Garrison provides the potential leader with a comprehensive overview of the study of leadership literature and practice. He shares an insightful overview of his personal experience and journey of becoming an exceptional leader. Greg presents a common-sense approach to becoming an effective leader. His approach is easy to understand and provides first-hand accounts of the challenges of achieving exemplary results."
—Ernie Lopez, organizational development consultant

 

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