Legacy of Leadership Volume 1: Stories and Strategies to Improve Your Crisis Leadership - Softcover

McKenna, Mike

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1704786290 ISBN 13: 9781704786292

Publisher: Independently published, 2019

Synopsis

"Only 14% of companies have people ready to step in and replace current leaders." ~ Forbes

  The lack of capable leaders, coupled with the lack of succession planning, is troubling. Memes expressing pithy quotes are not an adequate fix, either.

  For both emerging and existing leaders, Legacy of Leadership delivers useful and organized insights, compelling stories, and actionable strategies to enhance their legacy as a crisis leader immediately.

  To create this one-of-a-kind resource, twenty-one diverse, seasoned leaders from the public and private sector agreed to face-to-face interviews. 

• They each help us to understand the vital role a leader has before, during, and after a crisis.
• They each share a case study about their successes and challenges as a leader during a crisis.
• They each reflect on what they wish they knew at the time and what factors they used in their decision-making.
• They each share a glimpse into the people whose legacy inspired them.
• They each deliver specific recommendations for anyone desiring to improve their crisis leadership.

  They earned their incredible experiences and wisdom from careers leading their teams through diverse challenges, including business crises, war, natural disasters, financial loss, fire, civil unrest, family crises, criminal behavior, political upheaval, dangerous animals, terrorist attacks, train wrecks, and many others.

  The interviews conclude with a total of 242 key takeaways. 

  While each key takeaway is immediately actionable, additional analysis was conducted to reveal the 12 recurring themes common among the wide variety of crisis leaders. 

  These comprehensive data points enable rapid understanding, discernment, and implementation.

  According to the Global Leadership Forecast, to improve their response to a crisis or disruption, leaders' need to increase their focus in three areas:

1. Making data-based decisions
2. Gathering multiple and diverse perspectives
3. Embracing failure in pursuit of innovation

  Leveraging these recommendations and more, Legacy of Leadershipempowers current leaders to improve themselves and the future leaders that follow them.

About this title

From the Author

A massive thanks go the amazing and selfless leaders that made this book possible.  My intent is to share the stories and strategies that have made them successful so that we can apply similar strategies to our own journey.  The ultimate in legacy creation.  I hope to continue this service project with more leaders and more stories.  Enjoy.  ~Mike.

From the Back Cover

Legacy of Leadership delivers useful and organized leadership insights for emerging and existing leaders. Based on interviews with a wide variety of diverse public and private sector leaders, hear their compelling stories and actionable strategies for leading during a crisis, and learn the steps to enhance your own legacy as a crisis leader.

Learn more about Mike and the leaders interviewed at LegacyOfLeadership.US.

About this edition

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 1704786290
• ISBN 13: 9781704786292
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 374