Exponential Leadership is a business novel, following the journey of a senior business leader as he learns that leadership can be considered from an analytical or a quantitative perspective. Many such senior leaders consider leadership to be something amorphous but here we learn that by gradually building a strong, workable formula one can apply this process to everyday business life, and thus generate powerful, impactful results within our organizations. A common theme across all of author Doug Johnston's work is converting the focus of our thinking from short-term results to long-term impact. This book is a heart string in his personal journey to attain such lasting impact for himself and spread the same message to others.

Bill Gates, Windows, and Microsoft changed the world . . . but they were just the beginning. With the rise of digital technology, business moves at unprecedented speeds and now moves at an exponential pace. This pace is wreaking havoc to the business landscape as we know it. Disruption has brought “too big to fail” companies to their knees in a matter of months and it has made some industries obsolete. Any company or leader that doesn’t move at an exponential pace will be crushed by the new, massively transformative exponential organizations. These organizations are quickly expanding their purpose and invading new industries every day. Guides like Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, and more continue to provide us a roadmap for how to navigate the exponential horizon. Through a collection of nine keys of exponential leadership, we have created a formula to navigate the disruption. Exponential leadership—combined with emerging technologies, change, and disruption—will not only disrupt the world but will save it. It is time for a new generation of leadership. A leader that is purposeful, conscious, digital, and above all, exponential. Join us for a journey to reimagine innovation.

Dr Andy Brough shows the relationship between leading self, leading others, leading teams, and leading for results. Balancing strong academic research with interviews of leaders from various sectors of society, he explores how, when these 12 leadership principles are catalyzed, the result is an exponential effect at a team and organisational level. It takes the right elements, in the right place, at the right time. ENDORSEMENTS "Dr Andy Brough has, in a few 100 pages, helped elevate our understanding of leadership for the modern age. He takes us on a well-researched and informative journey with relevant examples and testimonies across a wide range of industries and sectors with a powerful message for all those aspiring to leadership. As an experienced practitioner working inside and alongside organizations, Andy offers us pragmatic advice and a set of tools and approaches to support how we amplify the impact of leadership. In the current context, his approach to amplify leadership as an impact you have in service of others, really resonates. As organizations strive to adapt; becoming flatter, less hierarchical, and more networked - the need for greater leadership from all increases. By connecting how we think about leadership in terms of self, the team and the wider organizational context, Andy has given us an opportunity to think in a more connected way on how to deliver the positive, exponential impact of leadership. -Robin Lilley Global Director of Leadership, Learning & Development, The Coca Cola Company, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

To survive in the new, competitive digital economy of artificial intelligence and the Internet of Things, companies will have to change their management models. The company of linear, incremental growth is becoming obsolete. Moonshot leaders like Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos aspire to bringing about massive transformations. These visionaries seek radical solutions to big problems through enabling technologies that are easily scalable and yield increasing returns with decreasing marginal costs that in many cases approach zero. In his book Journey of the Future Enterprise, Jorge Calvo explains what the disruptive change of the Fourth Industrial Revolution consists of, what moonshot leadership is and what exponential organizations (ExOs) are, and having set out the conceptual framework, explains how to gear companies toward the new economy. In short, this resource-packed book is written for those who want to be part of this change, for those who are suffering the impact of this radical transformation, for those who feel lost as a result of the complexity and speed of the changes that are taking place, and for those who want to better understand the drivers of the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

Frost & Sullivan's 2014 Growth, Innovation, and Leadership Book of the Year "EXPONENTIAL ORGANIZATIONS should be required reading for anyone interested in the ways exponential technologies are reinventing best practices in business." —Ray Kurzweil, Director of Engineering at Google In business, performance is key. In performance, how you organize can be the key to growth. In the past five years, the business world has seen the birth of a new breed of company—the Exponential Organization—that has revolutionized how a company can accelerate its growth by using technology. An ExO can eliminate the incremental, linear way traditional companies get bigger, leveraging assets like community, big data, algorithms, and new technology into achieving performance benchmarks ten times better than its peers. Three luminaries of the business world—Salim Ismail, Yuri van Geest, and Mike Malone—have researched this phenomenon and documented ten characteristics of Exponential Organizations. Here, in EXPONENTIAL ORGANIZATIONS, they walk the reader through how any company, from a startup to a multi-national, can become an ExO, streamline its performance, and grow to the next level. "EXPONENTIAL ORGANIZATIONS is the most pivotal book in its class. Salim examines the future of organizations and offers readers his insights on the concept of Exponential Organizations, because he himself embodies the strategy, structure, culture, processes, and systems of this new breed of company." —John Hagel, The Center for the Edge Chosen by Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, to be one of Bloomberg's Best Books of 2015

Praise for The Exponential Era "The Exponential Era turns strategic planning from a stagnant limited application exercise to an active thoughtful process that can yield benefits for all companies and executives. Every company leader can find a gem in the Exponential Era to apply to their business big or small." —Michael Splinter, Chairman of the Board, NASDAQ and Retired Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Applied Materials "I count this among the very best business books I have read. The authors have managed to synthesize a vast array of thinking and methodologies and deployed them in a practical and easily understood planning process (SPX) that addresses today's exponential pace of change." —James B. Stake, former Executive Vice President, Enterprise Services, 3M Company and Chairman, Ativa Medical Corporation "The Exponential Era is an essential read for our times." —John Puckett, Owner of Punch Pizza and Co-founder of Caribou Coffee "The Exponential Era does a great job of not only describing exponential technologies, but how they likely converge to transform our world." —Frank Diana, Managing Partner, Futurist, TATA Consultancy Services "The Exponential Era is a must-read for business leaders, entrepreneurs, and virtually anyone navigating our highly complex and rapidly changing world." —General (Ret. 4 Star) Joseph L. Votel, President and CEO, Business Executives for National Security (BENS)

"It's not often you can pick up a book about leadership and be drawn into its page in a manner both entertaining and instructive. If you are a student of leadership, I highly recommend this book as well as taking part in its helpful journey."-Gary M. Domencia, President and CEO, General Code"In Doug's fresh, enjoyable story, an insightful equation for organizational leadership unravels through the dialog of unlikely protagonist. If you lead a team, function or business, you will laugh, learn, and devour this book!"-Dan Heffernan, Chief Sales Officer, Dale Carnegie TrainingExponential Leadership is a business novel - it follows the journey of a senior leader as he learns that leadership can be considered from an analytical or a quantitative perspective. Many senior leaders consider leadership to be something amorphous; here we learn that by gradually building a strong, workable formula we can apply this process to our everyday business lives to generate powerful, impactful results within our organizations. A common theme across all of Doug Johnston's work is converting the focus of our thinking from short-term results to long-term impact. This book is a heart string in his personal journey to attain such lasting impact for himself and spread the same message to others.