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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.
“Executives' struggles result from a mismatch between traditional leadership practices designed for a top-down operating model, and our new fast-paced, interconnected reality.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
We explore ten pitfalls leaders must overcome as they adapt to today's disruptive environment. 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.
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.
Steve Garcia first became interested in how leaders drive 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 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.
