Seeing What Isn't There: A Leader's Guide To Creating Change In A Complex World

Great leaders have the ability to see what isn't there and inspire others with their vision to create the greatest achievements of our time. These leaders don't react to change, they create it. Seeing What Isn't There helps leaders see a future yet to be born while showing you how to channel the collective energy of others to make it a reality.

Through vivid examples from their vast reservoirs of experience advising leaders within some of the most complex organizations in the world today, the authors reveal what it takes to instill the seeds of success in others. Whether you are launching a strategic initiative, improving procedures, creating an internal development path for your workers, reinforcing your cyber defenses, building a new urban center, rebooting your country, or even just hoping to become a more effective leader, leadership is about leading change -- and Seeing What Isn't There shows you how to do it.

Bruce has focused much of his career on the emergence of the knowledge economy and its implications for the development of leadership competencies in distributed, technologically complex organizations. He has inspired thousands of leaders around the world to see in new ways while developing self-organizing Action Teams capable of transforming their vision into reality. As a consultant, graduate professor, and coach, Bruce has worked with leaders in aerospace, the Department of Defense, wireless telecommunications, cyber security, global logistics, financial services, municipal and national government, and the nonprofit sector.

Following his leader development studies at the University of North Georgia, Jim was commissioned and advanced in his Army career to the rank of Colonel with global responsibilities. He then went on to hold numerous leadership positions within Fortune 500 corporations, privately owned companies, and entrepreneurial startups. His spirit of service attracted him to volunteer on various non-profit boards where he has served as committee chairs and Chairman of one of the largest senior living communities in the state of Texas. As a leadership coach, consultant, and author, Jim continues to demonstrate his commitment to developing capable leaders for future generations. Jim's leadership philosophy is simple - it's all about WE, not ME.