Leaders Open Doors: A Radically Simple Leadership Approach to Lift People, Profits, and Performance

Leadership is the most overanalyzed, thoroughly dissected, and utterly confused topic in business. In Leaders Open Doors, author Bill Treasurer helps lighten the leadership load by disti lling that leaders are simply creators of opportunity for others. Using personal stories and anecdotes, Treasurer presents the idea of opendoor leadership-that is, the responsibility that leaders have for noticing, identifying, and creating opportunities for the benefit of people, organizations, and society. Each chapter includes useful and specific tips that can immediately be put into practice. Drawing on two decades of consulti ng experience, Treasurer introduces six unique opportunity doors: the proving-ground door the thought-shift ing door the door to a second chance the doors you open for others the door to personal transformati on the door to your open heart Treasurer shows that leadership isn't a complex and abstract concept. It's a set of practices and ideals passed from one person to another, across organizations and generations. It is a tradition that makes people's lives better by opening doors of opportunities for them to thrive, achieve, and lead.

BILL TREASURER is the chief encouragement officer at Giant Leap Consulting and the author of Courage Goes to Work, an internationally bestselling book on courage-building. He is the creator of Courageous Leadership, a do-it-yourself workforce training program, and has worked with thousands of executives throughout the world. His clients include Accenture, Saks Fifth Avenue, SPANX, UBS Bank, Monster.com, CNN, and the US Department of Veterans Affairs. Treasurer is also a former member of the US High Diving Team, a cancer survivor, and a champion for the rights of people with disabilities. One hundred percent of the royalties from the sales of this book are being donated to organizations that open doors for people with special needs.