A Time to Lead
Mastering Your Self . . . So You Can Master Your World
Will be published approx. on 13. September 2022
Book
Hardback
240 pages
978-1-63763-075-4 (ISBN)
Description
A Wall Street Journal Bestseller!
Based on cutting-edge academic research, insights from his extensive executive coaching practice, and lessons he has learned from over seventy-five interviews conducted with top CEOs, bestselling authors, and TED speakers, Craig Dowden's A Time to Lead provides an inspiring and practical roadmap to maximizing your potential to be the leader the world needs you to be.
To successfully naviagate the current and future terrain of leadership, we must be able to successfully lead ourselves. This is the fundamental premise of A Time to Lead: Mastering Your Self . . . So You Can Master Your World. Written by bestselling ForbesBooks author Craig Dowden (PhD) with Masterclasses in each chapter by legendary CEO Alan Mulally, A Time to Lead makes the case that the best leaders possess an advanced understanding of the inner workings of their minds and their hearts.
In this groundbreaking book, Craig highlights the importance of our mindset and our emotions as fundamental building blocks for our success. A Time to Lead sheds light on the scientific secrets of resilience as well as how we can discover and leverage our strengths. It provides insights into how we can receive feedback well and navigate difficult conversations. Craig closes with the importance and challenges of authentic leadership and outlines key reflection questions, which enable us to bring our best selves to every situation.
Based on cutting-edge academic research, insights from Craig’s extensive executive coaching practice, and lessons he has learned from over seventy-five interviews conducted with top CEOs, bestselling authors, and TED speakers, A Time to Lead provides an inspiring and practical roadmap to maximize your potential to be the leader the world needs you to be.
Being a leader has never been easy. Today the responsibility is even more daunting. A Time to Lead shows you the way.
Based on cutting-edge academic research, insights from his extensive executive coaching practice, and lessons he has learned from over seventy-five interviews conducted with top CEOs, bestselling authors, and TED speakers, Craig Dowden's A Time to Lead provides an inspiring and practical roadmap to maximizing your potential to be the leader the world needs you to be.
To successfully naviagate the current and future terrain of leadership, we must be able to successfully lead ourselves. This is the fundamental premise of A Time to Lead: Mastering Your Self . . . So You Can Master Your World. Written by bestselling ForbesBooks author Craig Dowden (PhD) with Masterclasses in each chapter by legendary CEO Alan Mulally, A Time to Lead makes the case that the best leaders possess an advanced understanding of the inner workings of their minds and their hearts.
In this groundbreaking book, Craig highlights the importance of our mindset and our emotions as fundamental building blocks for our success. A Time to Lead sheds light on the scientific secrets of resilience as well as how we can discover and leverage our strengths. It provides insights into how we can receive feedback well and navigate difficult conversations. Craig closes with the importance and challenges of authentic leadership and outlines key reflection questions, which enable us to bring our best selves to every situation.
Based on cutting-edge academic research, insights from Craig’s extensive executive coaching practice, and lessons he has learned from over seventy-five interviews conducted with top CEOs, bestselling authors, and TED speakers, A Time to Lead provides an inspiring and practical roadmap to maximize your potential to be the leader the world needs you to be.
Being a leader has never been easy. Today the responsibility is even more daunting. A Time to Lead shows you the way.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Forefront Books
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 219 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 23 mm
Weight
327 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-63763-075-4 (9781637630754)
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Craig Dowden (Ph.D.) is a highly respected executive coach with the Forbes Coaches Council as well as an award-winning speaker who delivers interactive, evidence-based workshops that translate the science of leadership, team, and organizational excellence into everyday practice.
His first book, Do Good to Lead Well: The Science and Practice of Positive Leadership was published by Forbes in early 2019. The book was endorsed by over thirty CEOs and top-rated TED speakers, including Adam Grant and Marshall Goldsmith. It quickly achieved best-seller status and was immediately picked up for national distribution by Chapters/Indigo.
Grounded in scientific research, Craig’s unique approach to leadership has been driven by his lifelong passion to help people achieve their full potential, both professionally and personally. Craig’s two decades of executive coaching experience coupled with his interviews with top thought leaders in the world has resulted in a very practical approach that will appeal to current and future executives.
Craig has been a regular contributor to, and featured expert in, top-tier leadership and business publications including Forbes, Fast Company, the Financial Post, the Huffington Post, Financial Times, the Globe and Mail, and Psychology Today.
Craig was recognized as one of Ottawa’s "Forty under 40" business leaders by the Ottawa Business Journal, a select group of individuals who "exemplify leadership, entrepreneurship and community building." These leaders are chosen using three criteria: career accomplishments, professional expertise, as well as community and charitable involvement.
His first book, Do Good to Lead Well: The Science and Practice of Positive Leadership was published by Forbes in early 2019. The book was endorsed by over thirty CEOs and top-rated TED speakers, including Adam Grant and Marshall Goldsmith. It quickly achieved best-seller status and was immediately picked up for national distribution by Chapters/Indigo.
Grounded in scientific research, Craig’s unique approach to leadership has been driven by his lifelong passion to help people achieve their full potential, both professionally and personally. Craig’s two decades of executive coaching experience coupled with his interviews with top thought leaders in the world has resulted in a very practical approach that will appeal to current and future executives.
Craig has been a regular contributor to, and featured expert in, top-tier leadership and business publications including Forbes, Fast Company, the Financial Post, the Huffington Post, Financial Times, the Globe and Mail, and Psychology Today.
Craig was recognized as one of Ottawa’s "Forty under 40" business leaders by the Ottawa Business Journal, a select group of individuals who "exemplify leadership, entrepreneurship and community building." These leaders are chosen using three criteria: career accomplishments, professional expertise, as well as community and charitable involvement.