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Leadership Vertigo: Why Even the Best Leaders Go Off Course and How They Can Get Back On Track
Over the past few decades, there's been an exponential rise in the number of books and studies on leadership and what we need to do to ensure organizational success in today's increasingly complex and interconnected global market. And yet, year after year, we continue to see research that shows employee engagement and morale levels plateauing on the low end of the scale. Why is this? Why are we unable to move the needle and create the kind of working conditions that not only allow our employees to succeed, but thrive under our leadership?
What these findings reveal is that leaders often can't see the gap that exists between what they want their leadership to represent and how others actually experience their leadership. Many of us are experiencing a common perceptual problem where our brain sends us false signals assuring us that everything is okay when it is not. We call this phenomenon Leadership Vertigo.
Leadership Vertigo: Why Even the Best Leaders Go Off Course and How They Can Get Back On Track will help you to understand how you can counter these bouts of self-deception by employing four Leadership Landmarks--Community, Competence, Credibility, and Compassion--to get your team back on course.
What these findings reveal is that leaders often can't see the gap that exists between what they want their leadership to represent and how others actually experience their leadership. Many of us are experiencing a common perceptual problem where our brain sends us false signals assuring us that everything is okay when it is not. We call this phenomenon Leadership Vertigo.
Leadership Vertigo: Why Even the Best Leaders Go Off Course and How They Can Get Back On Track will help you to understand how you can counter these bouts of self-deception by employing four Leadership Landmarks--Community, Competence, Credibility, and Compassion--to get your team back on course.
156 pages, Paperback
First published September 16, 2014
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October 18, 2014
As a leader of teams for nearly 25 years, I had the honor to learn amongst the best. I was not the leader in the beginning as I was when I retired.
Leadership Vertigo resounded in my mind as a roadmap to becoming a better leader and as a result observing award winning teams delivering amazing results. When Onboarding leaders in my teams, I share with them reading that will provoke thought and direct them to constant improvement with me. This book will now join the recommended reading. It is highly credible. It is the real deal.
My teams are like a second family. I am very proud of their accomplishments and I recognized that many of these insights discussed by the brilliant S. Max Brown and his co-author Tanveer Naseer were in play as we built our successes and special roles.
Leadership Vertigo resounded in my mind as a roadmap to becoming a better leader and as a result observing award winning teams delivering amazing results. When Onboarding leaders in my teams, I share with them reading that will provoke thought and direct them to constant improvement with me. This book will now join the recommended reading. It is highly credible. It is the real deal.
My teams are like a second family. I am very proud of their accomplishments and I recognized that many of these insights discussed by the brilliant S. Max Brown and his co-author Tanveer Naseer were in play as we built our successes and special roles.
April 1, 2021
Super quick read with fantastic reminders on leading with a positive mindset.
June 13, 2023
Leadership Vertigo: Why Even the Best Leaders Go Off Course and How They Can Get Back On Track explored ways in which people in leadership positions can create a healthy working environment for themselves and their staff.
This sounds like a great idea, but the execution was off for me.
When I was reading the book, it seemed as though most of it was a direct quote from a different book or a paraphrased story from a CEO. While this is not inherently bad, the fact that it was EVERY chapter and EVERY single subheading really threw me off. It felt as if I was reading short memoirs of successful people rather than a book with a centralized theme.
Furthermore some of the grammar and stylistic choices chosen really threw me off and caused me to struggle to finish. I know non-fiction reads differently than fiction, but it still needs to flow somewhat smoothly to create a pleasurable reading experience.
This book however did provide some insightful lessons that really forced me to reflect on my leadership style, but the repetition of what seemed like the same story back to back to back is what caused me to rate this as low as I did.
This sounds like a great idea, but the execution was off for me.
When I was reading the book, it seemed as though most of it was a direct quote from a different book or a paraphrased story from a CEO. While this is not inherently bad, the fact that it was EVERY chapter and EVERY single subheading really threw me off. It felt as if I was reading short memoirs of successful people rather than a book with a centralized theme.
Furthermore some of the grammar and stylistic choices chosen really threw me off and caused me to struggle to finish. I know non-fiction reads differently than fiction, but it still needs to flow somewhat smoothly to create a pleasurable reading experience.
This book however did provide some insightful lessons that really forced me to reflect on my leadership style, but the repetition of what seemed like the same story back to back to back is what caused me to rate this as low as I did.
February 12, 2023
As a leader, do not expect this book to provide you some "new" technique that you have never come across. Rather, this simple little book perfectly lays out four principles to help you work through -- and around -- leadership vertigo. In fewer than 125 pages, you manage to get some great reminders on the effectiveness of each of these principles. An easy book to keep around and crack open when things don't seem to be going quite right.
January 29, 2022
3 stars for a $3 book. Some good points. Too many quotes and summaries of other books on leadership instead of practical advice and samples of excellent leaders of smaller groups of people.
July 16, 2015
What is it that makes companies go off track? Max breaks down a few ways that this can happen and potential routes to getting back on track. At the end of each chapter is a list of questions to reflect on what was just read and how the reader could use it in their own life.
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