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The Leadership Lab: Understanding Leadership in the 21st Century
WINNER: Business Book Awards 2019 - Business Book of the Year
How can today's business leaders keep up with seismic geopolitical and economic shifts that include Brexit, inflation and the unseating of traditional political powers, and what do these mean for their own leadership narratives? In The Leadership Lab, bestselling author Chris Lewis and superstar megatrends analyst Dr Pippa Malmgren help you lead your team through this change successfully. Covering everything from how to build a new type of leadership trust when other spheres of public power have been overturned, to robots overtaking companies and worldwide indebtedness affecting business, this book explains not only why the old rules no longer apply, but also how to blaze a trail in this new world order and be the best leader you can be.
The Leadership Lab includes exclusive interviews with top executives grappling with the new world order and discusses what key global trends keep them awake at night and how they respond to them. It is a must-read for aspiring leaders and C-level executives seeking to develop a real intuition when it comes to dealing with the global currents disrupting business and how to build an empathetic, credible, stable and strong leadership path.
How can today's business leaders keep up with seismic geopolitical and economic shifts that include Brexit, inflation and the unseating of traditional political powers, and what do these mean for their own leadership narratives? In The Leadership Lab, bestselling author Chris Lewis and superstar megatrends analyst Dr Pippa Malmgren help you lead your team through this change successfully. Covering everything from how to build a new type of leadership trust when other spheres of public power have been overturned, to robots overtaking companies and worldwide indebtedness affecting business, this book explains not only why the old rules no longer apply, but also how to blaze a trail in this new world order and be the best leader you can be.
The Leadership Lab includes exclusive interviews with top executives grappling with the new world order and discusses what key global trends keep them awake at night and how they respond to them. It is a must-read for aspiring leaders and C-level executives seeking to develop a real intuition when it comes to dealing with the global currents disrupting business and how to build an empathetic, credible, stable and strong leadership path.
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296 pages, Paperback
Published October 30, 2018
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December 11, 2018
A leadership blueprint for (almost) everyone
This book is for those headed into leadership within the next decade, and who may be trained in bad habits. This is for senior associates, junior partners, vice presidents and beyond who are slugging it out with outdated bosses/organizations that are loathe to, or incapable of, adaptation. Most of all, it’s a book for future entrepreneurs.
There are many lessons here, many of which we all know even if they’ve never all been articulated in one place. That’s the strength of this book.
The weakness is that there are too many anecdotes in the tech/data section. Maybe right-brained analysis is the best available method for overload, but the book would have benefited if it had a left-brained analysis highlighting specific industries that need to pay attention. This book was written for a general readership, but maybe Lewis and Malmgren will pick the data/tech theme up in another book, someday.
The chapter (7) on gender-balance and masculine/feminine framing was excellent. It really highlights the necessary balance required in strategy, operations and organizational psychology. This is especially critical for tech companies given the ongoing bro-culture that pervades tech startups. The emphasis on ensuring that balance, versus a conversion to masculine thinking, was essential to the argument.
Overall, this is a solid blueprint for framing leadership from startups to conglomerates going forward.
This book is for those headed into leadership within the next decade, and who may be trained in bad habits. This is for senior associates, junior partners, vice presidents and beyond who are slugging it out with outdated bosses/organizations that are loathe to, or incapable of, adaptation. Most of all, it’s a book for future entrepreneurs.
There are many lessons here, many of which we all know even if they’ve never all been articulated in one place. That’s the strength of this book.
The weakness is that there are too many anecdotes in the tech/data section. Maybe right-brained analysis is the best available method for overload, but the book would have benefited if it had a left-brained analysis highlighting specific industries that need to pay attention. This book was written for a general readership, but maybe Lewis and Malmgren will pick the data/tech theme up in another book, someday.
The chapter (7) on gender-balance and masculine/feminine framing was excellent. It really highlights the necessary balance required in strategy, operations and organizational psychology. This is especially critical for tech companies given the ongoing bro-culture that pervades tech startups. The emphasis on ensuring that balance, versus a conversion to masculine thinking, was essential to the argument.
Overall, this is a solid blueprint for framing leadership from startups to conglomerates going forward.
May 30, 2024
So many fantastic insights and so much food for thought here, it's actually quite challenging to articulate anything specific that I loved, mainly because every time I turned a page, I'd be overtaken by another aha! moment...so maybe what I loved most is that it made me think so much...and I'm definitely going back to revisit the 8 tensions in the Kythera model one by one! This is 5 star leadership reading.
September 5, 2018
Leadership Lab
By Chris Lewis and Pippa Malmgren
3 stars
The book provides and attempts to answer a range of issues that leaders face or must consider. While I found that it does promote thoughts and discussion, it does not answer a lot of questions. The thoughts it does provoke, some of which are quite deep, are worth considering.
My first question though is who is the intended audience? Is it corporate leaders, policy makers, or someone else?
The book outlines comprehensively the influences on leaders, organisations and individuals/ staff of government policies including economic. It highlights the information overload due to technologies that leaders face, along with lessons that leaders to work through as they develop patience in followers.
Other issues that are addressed include the importance of leaders engaging in intelligence; accessing people more intelligent than themselves; Being aware of different forms of intelligence; Leaders need to be aware of and active in politics, locally, nationally and internationally.; and the role that leaders play in the political arena.
Lessons include how Information and data is used and analysed as tools for leaders; How leaders consider how technology is affecting people socially, and time wise; and the effect of technology on relationships.
The authors promote the use of tech currencies such as bitcoin. Arguing that they counter inflation and are more reliable.
Overall an accepted book on considerations that leaders must face.
Thank you to Netgalley for providing a review copy in return for an honest review. All opinions expressed in this review are entirely my own.
#TheLeadershipLab #NetGalley
Reviewed by Heath Henwood
www.books-reviewed.weebly.com
By Chris Lewis and Pippa Malmgren
3 stars
The book provides and attempts to answer a range of issues that leaders face or must consider. While I found that it does promote thoughts and discussion, it does not answer a lot of questions. The thoughts it does provoke, some of which are quite deep, are worth considering.
My first question though is who is the intended audience? Is it corporate leaders, policy makers, or someone else?
The book outlines comprehensively the influences on leaders, organisations and individuals/ staff of government policies including economic. It highlights the information overload due to technologies that leaders face, along with lessons that leaders to work through as they develop patience in followers.
Other issues that are addressed include the importance of leaders engaging in intelligence; accessing people more intelligent than themselves; Being aware of different forms of intelligence; Leaders need to be aware of and active in politics, locally, nationally and internationally.; and the role that leaders play in the political arena.
Lessons include how Information and data is used and analysed as tools for leaders; How leaders consider how technology is affecting people socially, and time wise; and the effect of technology on relationships.
The authors promote the use of tech currencies such as bitcoin. Arguing that they counter inflation and are more reliable.
Overall an accepted book on considerations that leaders must face.
Thank you to Netgalley for providing a review copy in return for an honest review. All opinions expressed in this review are entirely my own.
#TheLeadershipLab #NetGalley
Reviewed by Heath Henwood
www.books-reviewed.weebly.com
September 17, 2018
Leadership in the 21st century has its twists and turns especially as it's the generation with a lot of distractions.
In this book, the authors explain how to hone in leadership skills in a fast changing world. It shows how the world has now set new expectations for leaders and how leaders need to be constantly evolving.
It is a well researched book that provokes questions and new ways of thinking. You will not find answers to leadership in this book as it is written to elicit debates about different aspects of leadership.
In this book, the authors explain how to hone in leadership skills in a fast changing world. It shows how the world has now set new expectations for leaders and how leaders need to be constantly evolving.
It is a well researched book that provokes questions and new ways of thinking. You will not find answers to leadership in this book as it is written to elicit debates about different aspects of leadership.
February 4, 2023
It was interesting to revisit this book having heard the co-authors speak back in 2018. In the Prologue they describe the aftermath of the September 11th attacks highlighting the broad response: "Like so many other events, we researched the past and extrapolated our linear thinking. We didn't think laterally. We didn't use our imagination. We just didn't see it coming." That passage set the scene for me and captured my interest. The co-authors advance the idea that in our current state we have an over-reliance on analytical, reductive thinking this is problematic in a world of crosscutting issues and challenges where there is an imperative for leaders to see the bigger picture. They catalog shortfalls and express key criticism on the current state of leadership and stress that a leader of an organization must be responsible for the thinking culture of the entire organization. I enjoyed the chapter "Understanding a New Type of Behavior" where it discusses the changed expectations and the impact on the world of work of our constantly connected culture shaped by the internet as they describe patience as one of the great unnoticed casualties of the 21st century thus far. The uncertainty of the present day means leaders have to work that much harder to communicate their vision and ensure expectations are understood in an environment where information overload is the norm. As they quite rightly point out "mental discipline is the parent of patience."
February 2, 2020
This book clearly points out the challenges of leadership in the 21st century and what we need to do in business and politics to face those. Lewis and Malmgren introduce a clever heuristic that shows the dark side and light side of the issues we have created through change: technology driven, 4th industrial revolution, CHANGE. The book espouses whole brain thinking, creativity, situational awareness and leading with values.
An interesting observation was made that over the last decades, many political leaders have emerged from the world of business and show business. This isn't a bad thing and is something to inspire younger generations in those careers today. They know that the bigger picture matters, and I hope they will become leaders who can do the deep dive but also join the dots to innovate, inspire, include, inform and build with intelligence and sensitivity to the people and world around them.
The ideas here inspire my work this year as I address skills of the future and design thinking to early careers folks in various events around the UK. Let's enter this decade with strong imaginations, hearts and minds.
#techforgood #futureofwork #cultureeatsstrategy
An interesting observation was made that over the last decades, many political leaders have emerged from the world of business and show business. This isn't a bad thing and is something to inspire younger generations in those careers today. They know that the bigger picture matters, and I hope they will become leaders who can do the deep dive but also join the dots to innovate, inspire, include, inform and build with intelligence and sensitivity to the people and world around them.
The ideas here inspire my work this year as I address skills of the future and design thinking to early careers folks in various events around the UK. Let's enter this decade with strong imaginations, hearts and minds.
#techforgood #futureofwork #cultureeatsstrategy
November 19, 2020
This book paints many clear realities of the modern world. It depicts its duality and how with poor leadership, this duality is only going to be exacerbated.
From a personal perspective, I felt that this book 'called me out' but in a way that was well-reasoned and hard to reject. I can see my own negatives in a different light — but in particular, my severe impatience.
There have been so many things that I had given up before: hobbies, people, and dreams, all because I was impatient. What I mistook for perfectionism was impatience. I constantly felt like I didn't have enough time in a day. And so if I'm not taking away insights on technology, inflation, equality and diversity, and other global trends; I'm taking away a renewed reflection of myself at the very least.
From a personal perspective, I felt that this book 'called me out' but in a way that was well-reasoned and hard to reject. I can see my own negatives in a different light — but in particular, my severe impatience.
There have been so many things that I had given up before: hobbies, people, and dreams, all because I was impatient. What I mistook for perfectionism was impatience. I constantly felt like I didn't have enough time in a day. And so if I'm not taking away insights on technology, inflation, equality and diversity, and other global trends; I'm taking away a renewed reflection of myself at the very least.
October 12, 2020
Excellent read and my copy is now extensively highlighted.
March 19, 2022
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January 5, 2020
Great work from Pippa and Chris on how the world has changed and how many managers simply are not keeping up. In other words, your boss is probably working with a 19th-century mindset while the business world faces 21st-century realities.
January 20, 2019
This book looks at how the concept of leadership is changing in our modern times and gives you advise on how to build your team and foster trust in an world and society where it can be lacking at times and gives you advice on how to through the old rulebook out and craft your own modern style of leadership.
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