Leadership in Balance: The Fulcrum-centric Plan for Emerging and High Potential Leaders

De: Mike Lerario

Narrado por: Mike Lerario

This book was written for the new manager or anyone who aspires to become a leader. Whether you have just finished school or have been working for some time, you are in (or about to assume) your first real leadership position. Leadership in Balance will help you to see and understand your natural tendency in each of four essential leadership domains.

Once you’ve identified your true and natural tendencies, you become self-aware of your default position as a leader. Armed with that knowledge, and as you become situationally aware of your team and the environment, you will learn to see when the situation demands a shift in order to find balance between you and the environment where you lead.

Understanding the concepts of Leadership in Balance will allow leaders at all levels to become immediately more effective and infinitely more productive.

©2016 Michael P Lerario (P)2018 Michael P Lerario

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“Mike takes a fresh perspective on the topic of leadership. A must read for aspiring and seasoned leaders alike, and a welcomed addition to anyone’s leadership library.” (Mike Garner, a former Infantry officer and leadership instructor at West Point)

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I loved this book. It is part research synthesis, leadership paradigm, and memoir. The author combines his in-depth research and actual battle-tested experience to propose a paradigm of leadership that works for anyone interested in improving their leadership skill set. Great leadership is the combination of self-awareness, situational awareness, and the courage to act.
A leadership model is presented that consists of 4 domains: communication, adaptability, focus, and influence. Each domain represents a spectrum bounded on one side by an exclusive attribute and on the other by an inclusive one. An online assessment allows readers to determine where on each of the four domain spectrums he/she resides, based on self-reported tendencies.
Once readers are equipped with several receptive strategies to understand situational context, they are challenged to consciously move away from natural tendency towards actions that are situationally appropriate. This challenge is laced with hope: moving the fulcrum across the spectrum of each domain must be done with a focus on quality, not quantity. Fulcrum centric leadership is not chronic change towards a domain extreme, but a qualitative shift when tactically appropriate.
For emerging, high potential, or even reluctant leaders who find themselves promoted to leadership positions with minimal training, Mr. Lerario’s leadership paradigm is simple enough to understand and detailed enough to be useful.