Launching a Leadership Revolution: Mastering the Five Levels of Influence
Despite sounding like a typical management book, Chris Brady and Orrin Woodward breaks new ground by delving into leadership’s universal applications. Launching a Leadership Revolution’ takes traditional leadership basics and propels them into the modern age, giving them new, profound definitions that can easily be transferred to the demands of the real world.
By recognising the need for leadership in almost every aspect of life – from business, the community and even in the home – this book provides a clear step-by-step guide to developing leadership skills and building a strong foundation for widespread influence. At the book’s core sits a unique five-step guide, ‘The Five Levels of Influence’ which takes the reader through a new modern model for leadership: ‘Learning’: a leader must be able to learn from anyone;‘Performing’: how to persevere through failure to find success; ‘Leading’: practical exercises to extend ability and expand a team; ‘Developing Leaders’: how to trust others and share responsibility and ‘Develop Leaders Who Develop Leaders’: an insight into how leaders can create a far reaching legacy.
By working through these five levels, it becomes apparent that true leadership is built upon giving power and serving others, rather than tightening control. The ethos of Brady and Woodward’s teachings is that leaders lead for the joy of creating something bigger than themselves, a message that many people miss when setting their sights on leadership.
Giving common leadership misconceptions and clichés, this book offers insightful and well researched advice and is a must read for anyone looking to get to the bare bones of effective leadership.
