LEMON Leadership: Radically Fresh Leadership

Why another book about leadership? The author's work involves meeting with many leaders from around the world each year and they all have this in common: they want to have impact. They have mastered their craft and moved beyond the basics of running an organization. Best Practices are routine. They are looking at the deeper life issues. This inevitably brings them to the topic of leadership and more specifically, who they are. This book is not a "How To" of leadership, but a "Who are you?" book that considers leadership in a fresh way. Those who work at the coalface of human need are convinced that the lack of leaders is the number one issue in the world today. This stems partly from the fact that our definitions of leadership are too narrow - incomplete. We know lots about entrepreneurs and managers, but there are other types of leaders about which we know precious little. LEMON Leadership® expands our view of leadership to cover five distinct types of leaders; not styles, not temperaments, not preferences...types. The simple truths about LEMON Leadership® have transformed the lives of individual leaders and changed the working of executive teams. Understanding the truisms in this book will radically increase your impact.

Brett Johnson founded The Institute for Innovation, Integration & Impact, Inc. in 1996. Brett s writings support his work consulting to business and social sector leaders on breakthrough strategies. He has over twenty-five years experience with leading public accounting and management consulting firms helping corporations from global multi-nationals through to business start-ups and social sector organizations. Brett was a Partner at KPMG Peat Marwick and at Computer Sciences Corporation. He spent fourteen years at Price Waterhouse working in the United States and South Africa. A sampling of Brett s clients include Apple Computer, Amgen, Cisco Systems, Chicago Tribune, Cost Plus World Markets, Duty Free Shoppers, GATX Shipping, Incyte Genomics, Pacific Gas & Electric, Prison Fellowship Ministries, Safeway, Shell Oil, Sony PlayStation, Stanford University, University of the Nations, Wells Fargo Bank, and Youth with a Mission. He has worked extensively with executive teams helping them envision new futures, and aligning such teams around a common purpose. Brett has extensive experience in redesigning organizations and in coaching executive teams. Throughout his career, he has used his business expertise to provide consulting services to charities and universities. He has worked with local NGOs through to international charities. Brett and his wife Lyn founded a non-profit organization in California called r p in 1992. At The Institute he has developed intellectual property and Web-based tools to rapidly analyze corporations and discover innovative ways in which to radically increase their impact. He is the author of a book entitled Convergence. He coauthored I-Operations: the Impact of the Internet on Operating Models with Gary Daichendt, the former EVP of Worldwide Operations at Cisco Systems. The second edition of I-Operations: How the Internet can transform your Operating Model was released in February 2003. He has also authored numerous papers. His third book is titled LEMON Leadership®. Brett is a Chartered Accountant and holds a Bachelor s degree in Commerce from the University of Cape Town.