The Self-evolved Leader: Elevate Your Focus and Develop Your People in a World That Refuses to Slow Down - Hardcover

Dave McKeown

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1626346801 ISBN 13: 9781626346802

Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group Press, 2020

Synopsis

A practical guide to help executives and managers at all levels adopt a new way of leading in our fast-moving world.

In this easy-to-read yet impactful book, leadership expert Dave McKeown dispels many of leadership mindsets and approaches that are no longer effective in our organizations.

In their place he provides a compelling case that leadership should be focused on achieving the team's common goals and in doing so helping them become the best version of themselves.

McKeown outlines the three key steps to make the transition from Heroic Leadership to Self-Evolved Leadership and concludes with a comprehensive 15-week program designed to help you evolve your leadership style with the kind of flexible, adaptable best practices that work to deliver results, company-wide.

This book is ideal for any leader looking to:

• Stop working in the weeds and think more strategically
• Build empowerment deep in their team
• Free up their headspace to be more creative
• Deliver lasting results for their team and organization

About this title

About the Author

Dave McKeown helps individuals, teams, and organizations achieve excellence by doing the ordinary things extraordinarily well. He is the CEO of Outfield Leadership and author of TheSelf-Evolved Leader - Elevate Your Focus and Develop YourPeople in a World That Refuses to Slow Down (Greenleaf Book Group).

He has a wealth of experience in connecting individual and team performance to improved business results with a particular focus on fast-growing, complex organizations.

Dave started his career as a Consultant at Accenture, quickly moving to become the COO and then President of PredictableSuccess, a boutique consultancy focussed on helping complex businesses achieve scalability.

Whilst at Predictable Success he also ran Inc. Consulting, a joint venture with Inc. Media which helped companies on, or aspiring to be on, the Inc. 5000. achieve consistent, scalable growth.

As Founder and CEO of Outfield Leadership, Dave now speaks, coaches and trains on moving from execution to excellence.His goal is to help organizations build a culture of real, authentic but ultimately results-driven leadership.

He has shared his leadership strategies at the Inc. 500 and Growco conferences, Bank of America, for the BritishGovernment, Entrepreneur's Organization, Bamboo HR and countless others. And has worked with leaders at SpectrumHealth, Renewal by Andersen, Akamai, NYSE and many smaller, fast-growing organizations.

Dave is the host of the podcast 'Lead Like you Give a Damn' and writes a weekly column for Inc.Com.

Originally from Northern Ireland, Dave now lives in SouthernCalifornia with his wonderful wife, Paris and awesome Staffie, Maggie. 

From the Inside Flap

In a world where everything is urgent, our leaders are being drawn into a dangerous cycle of saving the day and pulling victory from the jaws of defeat. Although valiant on the surface, this ends in burnout for them and learned helplessness in their people.

In this timely and easy-to-read book, leadership consultant and speaker, Dave McKeown, draws on his experience of working with thousands of leaders in fast-growing organizations and lays out a compelling argument for stopping this cycle of mediocrity.

In its place, McKeown implores readers to reset their understanding of where their value comes from. Namely that instead of knowing the answers and solving their teams' emergencies, they should elevate their focus to the medium- and long-term direction of their team and development of their people.

Written for leaders from the front line to the C-Suite, The Self-Evolved Leader will show you how to:

* Stop working in the weeds and think more strategically

* Find more time to focus on the important work

* Build empowerment deep in your team

* Free up your headspace to be more creative

* Deliver lasting results for your team and organization

With a deep understanding of today's hyper-busy world, McKeown lays out the key challenges facing leaders in fast-moving organizations and the need to move away from prevalent yet outdated and often detrimental models and methods.

In place of these destructive patterns, McKeown identifies a three-step approach that leaders can use to navigate their team to success: create a shared vision, build an implementation rhythm, and develop the key leadership disciplines. The book concludes with a comprehensive 15-week program to help the reader implement the practices in the book within their own team and more broadly in their organization.

The book balances the need for new leadership philosophies with practical steps to becoming a better leader. It leaves the reader with a renewed picture of leadership excellence, a desire to become the best leader they can be, and a detailed roadmap to get there.

Edition details

• Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group Press
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1626346801
• ISBN 13: 9781626346802
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 248