Scaling Leadership

Transform Your Organization by Scaling Leadership You are good at what you do, but then you are promoted to a level of scale and complexity for which you feel unprepared. If this sounds familiar, you are not alone. You are likely reaching the limits to scale of your own leadership, individually and collectively. -From the Introduction How do you navigate our increasingly complicated and volatile world such that you scale new and innovative solutions to complex business, organizational, and global problems? The answer is leadership! Scaling Leadership offers a challenge to today's leaders-to evolve your leadership at the pace needed to meet the demands of today's increasingly complex and constantly disrupted global environment. Scaling Leadership is the just-in-time guide for those in positions of senior leadership who need to transform their organizations. You do this best when you start with yourself. Leadership is the deployment of self into circumstances to create the outcomes that matter most. You are the key to transforming your organization. You do this by mastering and scaling transformative leadership. Scalable leaders are capable of leading growth. More importantly, they are able to evolve their leadership to remain effective with the increased complexity that comes with rapid growth. They also scale their leadership, getting a multiple on it by developing other mature and capable leaders. Successful leaders scale and transform the organization by scaling leadership-by being the kind of leader who develops other conscious and effective leaders. Scaling Leadership draws on a huge international database of senior leaders providing 360-degree written feedback to fellow senior leaders. Through their written comments to each other, the reader gets to listen in as leaders describe the kind of leadership that is capable of scale in today's world and the kind of leadership that is not. Rather than resting on a high-minded theory, Scaling Leadership relies on the words of effective leaders throughout the world as they describe, in compelling detail, what they have learned that works, what does not, and how they have progressed in their individual leadership journeys. Scaling Leadership distills lessons from successful leaders into a powerful and universal leadership framework that will let you chart your specific path of development. This book will get your attention. It will evoke and provoke you. It will ask you to deeply reflect on your own personal balance of leadership strengths and weaknesses. It will challenge you to evolve your leadership in deep relationship with others and with exceptional integrity. Written by two noted experts in the field of leadership, this book draws on decades of solid research and the authors' personal experience enhancing individual capability and collective leadership effectiveness with Fortune 500 companies and government agencies. Scaling Leadership shows how senior leaders successfully transform and scale their leadership as they transform their organizations. The book explains how these men and women proliferate high-achievers throughout their organizations' leadership system. It will show you how they scale the kind of leadership that is capable of rapid innovation and the high levels of adaptability, agility, and engagement that puts their organizations on a sustainable growth strategy where all stakeholders thrive. Scaling Leadership is an essential guide that offers senior leaders the information needed to develop conscious leadership at scale within their organization. It also supports your learning by including two companion products-a Leadership Circle Profile (LCP) Self-Survey and a Leadership Development Plan (LDP).