Leadership Revolution

Leadership Revolution

by Lori Mazan
Released October 2023
Publisher(s): Wiley
ISBN: 9781394171828

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Book description

Transform the next generation of talent into capable and productive leaders

In Leadership Revolution: The Future of Developing Dynamic Leaders, distinguished executive coach Lori Mazan delivers an exciting new approach to leadership development tailor-made for the 21st century. Drawing on lessons learned from coaching top executives for 25 years and from democratizing executive coaching by founding a cutting-edge scalable leadership coaching firm, you’ll learn how to attract and retain talent by accelerating and individualizing their professional growth and how to re-think leadership in the new remote and hybrid work environment.

You’ll also discover how to help your staff flourish by relying on a sense of community and shared purpose, even when they’re working from a distance. The book includes:

  • Concrete, hands-on strategies for becoming a leader who develops other leaders
  • Ways to avoid the creation of a gap between the upper echelon of executives and high-potential managers and grow a diverse leadership pipeline
  • Techniques for carefully considering a potential leader’s skills, experiences, and interests while moving them up the leadership ladder
  • Deep understanding of how leadership coaching opens the door to breakthrough thinking and results
  • How to move from the traditional focus on measuring activities to measuring and cultivating true developmental and organizational impact

An invaluable and practical strategy guide for leadership and talent development, Leadership Revolution is the perfect resource for managers, executives, coaches, and other business leaders looking for proven ways to shape the next generation of leaders in their firms.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Table of Contents
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Foreword
  7. Preface
    1. The Spirit of a Coaching Engagement
    2. What's Ahead
  8. PART I: Clarity
    1. CHAPTER 1: The Big Leap
      1. The Unity of Opposites
      2. Coaching's “Secret Weapon” Era
      3. The Platinum Rule
      4. “You Can't Ask That Question”
      5. Your Progress Is Your Job
      6. The Gasp
    2. CHAPTER 2: Letting Go of Outdated Thinking
      1. The Trouble with Popeye
      2. Power Matching
      3. The Compliance Mentality
      4. Why Do I Have to Stop?
      5. Putting People in Boxes
      6. Change Mindsets to Change Behavior
      7. “Problem Children” and Other Things HR Sees
      8. Reimagining Potential
      9. Avoiding the Easy Way
    3. CHAPTER 3: What Do You (Really) Want?
      1. Any Road Won't Do
      2. The Long Shadow of in Loco Parentis
      3. Hiring Adults
      4. Mommy Benefits
      5. Make It Meaningful
      6. Eye‐of‐the‐Storm Wants
      7. Thinking Partners
      8. Is Being Right Really All You Want?
      9. Following the Rules Is Not Enough
      10. How to Get Beyond “Being Right”
      11. Next!
  9. PART II: Challenge
    1. CHAPTER 4: Jumping off the Cliff
      1. The Lesson of the Lavender Suit
      2. Thinking versus Doing
      3. Three Ways Forward
      4. Breaking through the Excuses Barrier
      5. Collecting Nos
      6. Paying the Piper
      7. “Tell Me to Get Going”
      8. Wait, Are We Just Starting?
      9. Just Make It to the Deck
      10. “I'll Jump with You”
    2. CHAPTER 5: Break Down
      1. Persistence over Time
      2. Feeling Failure
      3. Blame and Courage
      4. Breaking (Failure) Down
      5. But What If I Do Get Fired?
      6. Leave It Behind
      7. What Will Be Successful Next?
      8. Break Through
      9. The Path of Action
      10. The Choice Is Yours
    3. CHAPTER 6: Breakthrough
      1. Learning by Sparring
      2. Why We Get Stuck on the Horizontal
      3. The Real‐Life Test
      4. That's Not a Nail
      5. Interweaving
      6. Maximum Capacities
      7. The Right Timing
      8. Context Is King
      9. Breakthrough
    4. CHAPTER 7: The Third Right Answer
      1. How Do I Think about This?
      2. Beyond Binary
      3. Embrace the Unexpected
      4. Judgment
      5. Endless Alternatives
    5. CHAPTER 8: Making New Choices
      1. Community, Not Family
      2. Cooperative Competition
      3. The Balanced Equation
      4. The Pandemic Effect
      5. Levels of Community
      6. So Close You Can't See Anything
      7. Beyond the Third Right Answer
    6. CHAPTER 9: Why Context Is Key
      1. Who Is in the Context
      2. Coaching in Context
      3. On the Levels
      4. Culture Clashes
      5. Stay or Go
      6. The Mantra Method
      7. Context as Opportunity
      8. The Coaching Context
  10. PART III: Impact
    1. CHAPTER 10: Lasting Change
      1. The Democratization of Complexity
      2. Don't Hire a Soccer Coach to Teach Tennis
      3. Coach First
      4. Coach (Only) Leadership
      5. Create Lasting Change
      6. Boldly Level Up the Leader
      7. See Blind Spots—and Peek Around Corners
      8. You're Not a Coach Until You've Been “Fired”
      9. Organizational Impact
      10. Use Technology to Deepen Coaching Impact
    2. CHAPTER 11: The Power of Alignment
      1. Activity Isn't Enough
      2. Alignment, Not Uniformity
      3. Mind the Gap
      4. Working with Heart
      5. What Does Your Company Really, Really Want?
      6. Don't Focus on the Problem Outliers
      7. The Risk (and Why to Take It)
    3. CHAPTER 12: The Big Beyond
      1. Building a Leader Success Model
      2. Flexibility (Finding Balance)
      3. Measuring from the Outside
      4. Self‐Reliance
      5. The Self‐Reliant Organization
      6. Celebrating the Big Beyond
  11. Notes
    1. Chapter 2: Letting Go of Outdated Thinking
    2. Chapter 3: What Do You (Really) Want?
    3. Chapter 4: Jumping off the Cliff
    4. Chapter 6: Breakthrough
    5. Chapter 7: The Third Right Answer
    6. Chapter 8: Making New Choices
    7. Chapter 10: Lasting Change
    8. Chapter 12: The Big Beyond
  12. Acknowledgments
  13. About the Author
  14. Index
  15. End User License Agreement

Product information

  • Title: Leadership Revolution
  • Author(s): Lori Mazan
  • Release date: October 2023
  • Publisher(s): Wiley
  • ISBN: 9781394171828