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The Leap to Leader

How Ambitious Managers Make the Jump to Leadership
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The Leap to Leader by Adam Bryant provides insights into the journey from being a manager to becoming a leader in an organisation. The book draws from interviews with successful leaders, offering practical advice and illustrative case studies to guide readers through the challenges and opportunities that arise in leadership roles. It's an engaging resource for those looking to develop their leadership skills in the business and entrepreneurship realms.
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This book may appeal to you if you're looking to transition into a leadership role or seeking insights on navigating executive challenges. With practical advice and real-world examples from industry leaders, it provides valuable strategies for making impactful decisions and cultivating leadership skills.

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Get ready to make the biggest jump of your career.

The chasm separating managers from leaders is widening as the skills required to be an effective leader grow in number and complexity. But you're ambitious. You want to cross that chasm. And your organisation needs you to cross it in order to join its bench of stars who will lead with empathy and humanity and ground the organisation's strategies in a meaningful, mission-driven, and purposeful way.

The Leap to Leader is your trusted playbook for making the biggest jump of your career. You'll learn from more than a hundred successful leaders who share their powerful insights and compelling stories of how to make the leap, along with practical strategies and tactics for building a loyal following, moving up quickly to broaden your impact, and making the subtle but crucial mindset shifts that are required to lead others effectively.

As senior managing director at the ExCo Group, Adam Bryant has worked directly with hundreds of fast-rising executives, sharing the leadership development frameworks, tools, and approaches that are at the heart of this book. He draws on the collective wisdom of the one hundred mentors at his firmβ€”all former CEOs or global business leadersβ€”who know what it takes to make the leap to leader. As the creator of the iconic Corner Office column in the New York Times, Bryant has spoken with more than a thousand leaders over the years about the challenges and nuances of leadership.

The leap to leader doesn't have to be a leap of faith. If you're ready to make the jump, start here.

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The Leap to Leader by Adam Bryant is praised for offering a practical roadmap for professionals aiming to advance their leadership skills. The book distinguishes between managing and leading, providing essential insights, tips, and stories that highlight the transformation needed for effective leadership. It is hailed as an insightful guide, capturing both the big ideas and intricate details required to inspire and influence others effectively.

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ISBN: 9781647824891

Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 11 July 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: Harvard Business Review Press

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 156.0mm

Height: 235.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 240

About the Author

Adam Bryant is senior managing director and partner at the ExCo Group, where he works with hundreds of ambitious leaders rising through the ranks. As the creator and former author of the iconic Corner Office column in the New York Times, Bryant has mastered the art of distilling real-world lessons from his hundreds of interviews and turning them into practical tools, presentations, and exercises to help companies strengthen their leadership benches. He also works with executive leadership teams to help drive their transformation strategies, based on a best-practices framework he developed for his widely praised book, The CEO Test: Master the Challenges That Make or Break All Leaders.

Connect with the Adam Bryant at @AdamBBryant on Twitter.

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