The Advantage Makers: How Exceptional Leaders Win by Creating Opportunities Others Don't

by Steven Feinberg

Some leaders consistently see possibilities others miss. They learn more, learn faster, and transform their insights into breakaway strategies. They are more effective collaborators, more powerful influencers, better at handling adversity, and dramatically more successful at execution. They are the Advantage-Makers. Their winning skills are not they are entirely teachable and learnable. Steven Feinberg has been teaching these skills to executives for more than twenty leaders who’ve gone on to transform their organizations. Now, it’s your turn. In this book, Feinberg helps you master every skill Advantage-Makers need. He doesn’t just exhort you to “think different”: he shows you how. You’ll learn how to find the “commanding vantage point” in your situation, no matter how complex or dynamic...and use your high ground to spot and maximize every opportunity.

277 pages, Hardcover

First published July 1, 2007

Reviews

[Robert · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Advantage-Makers: How Exceptional Leaders Win by Creating Opportunities Others Don't
Steven Feinberg
Financial Times Press

According to Feinberg, "advantage-Makers" are "pathfinders who anticipate patterns, advance their organizations, and get the most out of everything they have. They learn more, learn more quickly, and develop breakaway strategies. Their healthy skepticism helps them spot difficulties that they transform into opportunities. Most of all, they have the heart of a lion when facing adversity." In terms of strategic challenges, they do more with less and do it faster, enrich strategic thinking and decision making, and create strategies for business growth. With regard to organizational challenges, they build a team of Advantage-Makers, resolve interdepartmental and collaboration conflicts, design the underlying performance structures so they are more effective, and create momentum while correcting misalignment. Above all else, they provide leadership (e.g. helping to develop leadership at all levels and within all areas of their organization) when supervising major change initiatives, increase the influence and effectiveness of their and others' leadership, accelerate improvement of performance of newly promoted executives, and "pull your - or someone else's - feet out of the fire. “

Feinberg helps his reader to break “the secret code of “advantage-makers” in order to understand how to shift the odds in one’s favor, avoid “the hidden laws of defeat,” shift to and secure a commanding “(Ad)Vantage Point,” adapt to changes quickly and effectively, manage perceptions, and generate and then sustain moment throughout the given enterprise. This book delivers, with rigor and eloquence, what its subtitle promises: an explanation of how exceptional leaders win by creating opportunities others don't. It will be of incalculable value to all decision-makers in all organizations (regardless of their size or nature) because advantage-makers are needed at all levels and in all areas of any enterprise.

[Leader Summaries · Rating 5 out of 5]

Desde Leader Summaries recomendamos la lectura del libro Los creadores de ventajas, de Steven Feinberg.
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[Steve · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a good book about leadership. A little on the repetitive side; however, easy to follow. Now must go and apply the concepts.