Leadership Transformed: How Ordinary Managers Become Extraordinary Leaders Author: Visit Amazon's Peter Fuda Page | Language: English | ISBN:
0544026934 | Format: EPUB
Leadership Transformed: How Ordinary Managers Become Extraordinary Leaders Description
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"Leadership Transformed will help anyone recognize great leaders, and even more importantly, accelerate your own entrepreneur leadership transformation." —Forbes.com
"[In Leadership Transformed,] Peter Fuda digs into the characteristics, motivations, and personal and professional goals that elevate ordinary managers into extraordinary leaders. Translating [Fuda’s] metaphors into substantive change isn’t easy—it requires humility and a willingness to understand how others view you—but the payoff can be life-changing." —Success Magazine
About the Author
Dr. Peter Fuda has spoken on four continents to over ten thousand leaders. Founder and principal of The Alignment Partnership, a Sydney-based international management consultancy specializing in business transformation and alignment, Dr. Fuda has coached over 200 CEOs on how to increase their leadership effectiveness.
- Hardcover: 240 pages
- Publisher: New Harvest (August 20, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0544026934
- ISBN-13: 978-0544026933
- Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.8 x 1 inches
- Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
For me reading `Leadership Transformed', a new book by Dr. Peter Fuda, was a rare pleasure. I'd strongly recommend it to others.
It did two things that most books of its genre (business, leadership, self-help etc.) usually fail to do; it kept me interested throughout its 190 pages, eagerly moving through the chapters as I would a good novel; and it made me think, think deeply about the both the specific content of the book and the context in which it applies.
Why was it a `page turner'?
Many business books contain one fundamental maxim, which is repeated in several guises. These books can often be summarized in one phrase - do this, or don't do that. I quickly get bored with them. It's like different dressings on the same house salad. Peter Fuda provides a much richer and more fulfilling experience as he explains the 7 metaphors for Leadership Transformation that emerged from his research. Each is sufficiently independent to merit separate attention, whilst they are sufficiently complementary and interrelated that they must be considered as a whole. So the book provides a perfect 7 course tasting menu. It's also fun to read. It's jargon free and built upon meaningful personal anecdotes from the author and his research subjects. At times it has a `reality TV' feel as we retrospectively share their experiences.
Why did it make me think?
In terms of the content, I considered each of the metaphors and how they have, or may in the future, apply to me. I'm going to try the exercises that are offered on the PeterFuda.com blog to learn more. I also thought about the attributes that underpin the `transformed' versions of the leaders who are profiled.
There are at least two ways to view the title of this book and Peter Fuda may have had both in mind while writing it: the transformation of an individual leader's skills, and, the process by which a non-leader can develop those skills. During a period of several years, Fuda and his associates conducted rigorous research on leaders of CEO status who had succeeded in "transforming themselves, their leadership teams, and their organizations." He sought to develop "a rich and contextual understanding of leadership through their eyes." What he learned is provided in this book.
More specifically, the research uncovered seven distinct yet interdependent metaphors and Fuda devotes a separate chapter to each: Fire (ambition: "burning platform" and "burning ambition"), Snowball ("virtuous cycle" of accountability and momentum), Master Chef (frameworks, tools, and strategies to progress from apprentice to master), Coach (obtaining support and feedback to achieve aspirations), Mask (authenticity and transparency rather than deception), and Russian Dolls (coordinating multiple and simultaneous journeys of discovery and development). As Fuda observes, "I firmly believe that these seven metaphors represent a unique way of addressing the fairly common challenge of leadership transformation in a fresh and unconventional way."
The number and nomenclature of his metaphors - and any others -- are much less important than how they help us to transform the way we think about leadership. For example, as I worked my way through his narrative, I was reminded of one of Roger von Oech's books, A Kick in the Seat of the Pants (2000), in which he discusses four leadership roles that could also be viewed as metaphors: Explorer, Artist, Judge, and Warrior.
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