How to last as a leader There are other books to help you climb the ladder as a leader. This one helps you last once you get there. Leadership Endurance is all about growing through the pain, self-doubt, and the loneliness that inevitably will besiege anyone who seeks the challenge of leadership. Author Brian Sanders doesn’t sugarcoat a single word. If you want practical, time-honored, strategic help to rise above the challenges you will face as a leader, this book is for you. Forged by his own missteps and successes, and founded on solid, biblical principles exemplified in the lives of the greatest leaders of all time, Leadership Endurance is for any leader who feels called to a lifetime of service in the leader’s chair.

Lead your business to survival and success by following the example of legendary explorer Ernest Shackleton Sir Ernest Shackleton has been called "the greatest leader that ever came on God's earth, bar none" for saving the lives of the twenty-seven men stranded with him in the Antarctic for almost two years. Because of his courageous actions, he remains to this day a model for great leadership and masterful crisis management. Now, through anecdotes, the diaries of the men in his crew, and Shackleton's own writing, Shackleton's leadership style and time-honored principles are translated for the modern business world. Written by two veteran business observers and illustrated with ship photographer Frank Hurley's masterpieces and other rarely seen photos, this practical book helps today's leaders follow Shackleton's triumphant example. "An important addition to any leader's library." -Seattle Times

The world of business makes generous use of metaphors drawn from the auto industry--as in "driving for results," "leading in the fast lane," "looking under the organization's hood," and "leaving the competition in the dust." But this timely, highly readable handbook goes a big step further. Author Chris Cappy, a veteran management consultant and self-professed "car guy," along with Scott Good, a serial entrepreneur and national championship-winning racing driver, contend that driving is much more than just a metaphor. Together, they demonstrate that the principles of top-level automobile racing can teach us a great deal not only about leadership, but also about life. In this book, they literally put us in the driver's seat and show us how it's done. Endurance racing at the highest levels is a sophisticated team sport, not just an isolated act of derring-do. It takes vision, planning, training, and exquisite execution by many people over a long period of time. Sound familiar? If you're a business executive, it should. High-performance leading, like racing, is emphatically a team endeavor. The authors' passion for their subject leaps out from every page, and it's catching. So are the keen insights derived from the racetrack--insights used to demonstrate how to leverage and apply important skills and principles in our professional and personal lives. After all, today's business environment is nothing if not fast and furious. There's danger around every curve; if we can't learn how to see around that curve before we get there, to anticipate quickly how to respond, and then to guide ourselves and our organizations around them safely, we'll spin out of control. Isn't that what today's leadership is all about--recognizing with a clear eye the uncertainty and volatility all around us, and then coaching teams of highly-trained people to navigate through successfully? Yes, but how--how do leaders teach, align and motivate their employees to maximize business results? To answer those questions, "The Driving Leader's Handbook" escorts us into the high-pressure world of motorsports and then deftly pulls back to offer cogent advice. It guides us step-by-step through the process that leads a professional driver--or an executive--to a level of performance not previously thought possible. It's a feeling (yes, feelings and instinct in this realm trump pure knowledge) of calm focus--that relaxed state amidst chaos and confusion that nimbly guides a sports car, or an executive team, through extreme adversity. "The Driving Leader's Handbook" blends the lessons learned from the racetrack with vast experience gained while working with senior executives of some of the world's largest corporations around organizational change. Leading change is the most daunting challenge today's leaders face, but face it they must: There's no alternative. Leadership and change have become synonymous. Drawing from the example of legendary racing team owners like Roger Penske, Chris and Scott show how to build a business case for change by involving employees and wider stakeholders in the process at every level. For the leader, it requires a level of passion, commitment and relentless focus on results.

How do you lead frightened people forward to success despite overwhelming odds? Ernest Shackleton should have gone down in history as a failed leader when his 1912 expedition to Antarctica took a dangerous turn. But despite a series of setbacks that left him and his men in life-threatening circumstances, he managed to keep his team moving forward so that they returned home safely. His story is a lesson in staying motivated and reassessing your goals in the wake of failure. In Forged in Crisis, Harvard Business School professor and historian Nancy Koehn looks at the lives of five exceptional leaders and reveals how they made the tough choices that allowed them to persevere. She examines the inspiring stories of Ernest Shackleton, Abraham Lincoln, environmentalist Rachel Carson, former slave and abolitionist Frederick Douglass, and German Resistance activist Dietrich Bonhoeffer. These extraordinary leaders displayed stunning abilities to exert lasting influence despite turbulence, disruption, and personalities that may have masked their abilities. By examining their individual values, strategies, and trade-offs, she extracts powerful lessons in what it takes to lead and triumph in the face of a crisis.

Lead with Endurance is divided into two parts:Part I: The HurdlesEveryone faces hurdles in life. At multiple times in our lives, we are hit with tragedies or events that are unexpected and difficult to manage. These hurdles help mold us and create the heart of a leader. My hurdles are divided into three chapters.A Lifetime of Managing Tourette's SyndromeConquering a Brain TumorRising Above the Loss of a Highly Public PositionPart II: The MilestonesWhy 26.2 milestones?Lead with Endurance is a mindset; a will, a drive to succeed, a mission to finish the "race," learning and growing from each milestone along the way.Rather than chapters, I have organized LwE into milestones with the mindset of not only reaching a certain level but like runners when training, coming back to certain milestones again and again.A marathon is 26.2 miles and I experienced the pain, suffering, and joy of completing the Chicago Marathon in October of 2001, just a few weeks after our country endured the terrorist attacks of September 11.Seeking treatment options for my brain tumor, I chose radiation as Dr. Fabrizio recommended 26 radiation treatments. Each visit to the Spectrum Cancer Center was a milestone for me, breaking down each visit into steps toward the finish line.

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This groundbreaking volume features expert contributions from across the globe by both management scholars and business leaders. Divided into three main parts _ Extreme Expedition Leaders, Extreme Work Teams and Extreme Individual Leaders _ the book ex