HOW MUST WE LEAD DIFFERENTLY IN TODAY’S FASTER,
MORE DISRUPTIVE WORLD?

Leaders are frustrated. The lessons they learned in business school and from mentors no longer work. It’s time for a new approach.

Steve Garcia and Dan Fisher help leaders around the world transform themselves and their organizations. In The End of Leadership as We Know It, they combine their expertise in business and psychology to explain what leaders must stop and start doing to lead in a fast, complex business world. Through powerful stories and practical examples, you’ll travel the leadership landscape and learn both “why” leaders must change and how to do it.

Buy Now

By ordering two or more copies, you can unlock these exclusive offers!

“Executives’ struggles result from a mismatch between traditional leadership practices designed for a top-down operating model, and our new fast-paced, interconnected reality.”

Excerpt from The End Of Leadership As We Know It

Praise for The End Of Leadership As We Know It

Leadership has never been easy. And the modern world is only making it harder. One frequently hears terms like vulnerability and leading without authority, but all too often beneath the bromide there is no substance. Not so here! Garcia and Fisher deliver grounding, advice, and perspective that will help any leader, no matter where they’re starting from. Highly recommended.

- Ben Fried

CIO, GOOGLE, 2008 - 2022

Garcia and Fisher provide a new holistic approach to navigating the traps that executives must avoid if they are to lead adaptive and effective organizations. Full of practical strategies and insightful wisdom, this guide gives leaders the tools they need to thrive amidst disruption and turn complexity to their advantage.

- Jesse Cohn

Managing Partner at Elliott Management

In these dynamic times where barriers to entry are falling and opportunities for innovation accelerating, leaders need to adapt their approach. Garcia and Fisher outline the main leadership traps in this evolving landscape and propose simple, effective strategies that leaders can use to help their companies win in the marketplace.

- Philip Hammarskjold

Executive Chairman of Hellman & Friedman

Contemporary leadership is fraught with landmines and traps given the intensity and frequency of change leaders are faced with today. Garcia and Fisher provide a practical guide to help both seasoned and new leaders to sidestep these traps and thrive in complexity and uncertainty.

- Dr. Robin Cohen

Head of Talent Management, Pharmaceuticals & Enterprise R&D at Johnson & Johnson

Operating in volatility and complexity is not for the faint-hearted. The old rules no longer apply. Garcia and Fisher provide a practical and thoughtful guide to avoid the traps so many leaders keep falling into.

- Jennifer Paylor

Head of Global Talent Innovation at Capgemini

Steve and Dan have created a guide that goes beyond the surface-level principles, one that strikes at the heart of great leadership. Filled with inspiring stories and examples, their approach is practical and rooted in years of learned wisdom.

- Dr. Marshall Goldsmith

The Thinkers50 #1 Executive Coach and New York Times bestselling author of The Earned Life, Triggers, and What Got You Here Won’t Get You There.

WHAT’S INSIDE

The New World of Work

It’s increasingly difficult to connect cause and effect or predict outcomes. New opportunities and threats seemingly appear out of nowhere all at once. Coming to terms with this reality prepares leaders to let go of outdated habits and embrace a bold, new approach.

Navigating the Traps

We explore ten pitfalls leaders must overcome as they adapt to today’s disruptive environment. Often this means acting against your instincts and conventional wisdom: from. Whether. Whether prioritizing relationships over expertise, setting aside best practice, or not putting all your faith in data, leaders must defy conventional wisdom. It’s truly the end of leadership as we know it.

Why We’re Optimistic

From the industrial revolution to the gig economy, history demonstrates that leaders rise to the challenges of their time. In the end, old leadership is just the beginning of a new form that better suits our contemporary challenges.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

STEVE GARCIA

Steve Garcia, Ed.D., first became in interested in how leaders drives organizational performance when he worked at Nortel Networks and had a front row seat to the company’s explosive growth and historic collapse. He went on to co-found Contemporary Leadership Advisors, a leadership and organizational effectiveness firm that helps companies like J&J, Zoom, and PepsiCo build faster, higher-impact and more adaptive organizations. His work has won numerous awards, including the Brandon Hall Gold Award for Executive Education.

DAN FISHER

Dan Fisher, Ph.D., is co-founder of Contemporary Leadership Advisors where he has advised senior leaders and their teams from some of the world’s top investment firms and companies, such as Google, Goldman Sachs and Zoom. Previously, Dan was a founding member of AlixPartners’ leadership and organizational effectiveness practice. He is a clinically trained trauma and forensic psychologist and gained invaluable insight working as an attending psychologist on New York Hospital’s world-renowned Burn Unit and in the New York City Court System.