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Real Leadership: Waken To Wisdom
Leaders today are often unconscious and unaware of how their learned fears, egos, and personality flaws adversely affect their effectiveness in dealing with others. Their followers are not engaged, not motivated, and not performing at their best. Leaders need to be authentic, manage from their hearts, be consistent with their beliefs, emanate trust and transparency, and allow their followers to be free to create, share, and excel at what they do best.
In REAL Leadership: Waking to Wisdom, Susan Robertson takes readers on a journey from being unconscious and blithely going through the motions of leadership—driven by harmful habits—to an awakening of inner truth, resiliency, engagement, authenticity, and leadership wisdom–REAL leadership.
Referencing research and 30 years’ worth of experience in leadership consulting and organizational and cultural transformation, Robertson shows why leaders fail, why fear prevents leaders from really fulfilling their potential, and how they can recover through techniques of self-awareness and self-management. She also illustrates the impact leadership has on high- versus low-performing cultures.
While there are many books out there on how to manage better, there are few, if any, that talk about changing from within. Robertson addresses the transformative process that helps leaders change their self-image, reframe their minds, awake spiritually, find inner truth and honesty, and achieve a level of transcendence–all critical elements of leadership wisdom.
For individual leaders, teams, and organizations, REAL Leadership: Waking to Wisdom is a valuable tool for learning how to change the very nature of our inner being, become conscious, healthy, and well-adjusted, and bring positive energy to everything we do in life.
Based on principles such as mutual respect and caring, Robertson’s philosophy is a welcome change in management doctrine. It’s management for better organizational accomplishment as well as for the greater good of the individual and, by extension, society in general.
In REAL Leadership: Waking to Wisdom, Susan Robertson takes readers on a journey from being unconscious and blithely going through the motions of leadership—driven by harmful habits—to an awakening of inner truth, resiliency, engagement, authenticity, and leadership wisdom–REAL leadership.
Referencing research and 30 years’ worth of experience in leadership consulting and organizational and cultural transformation, Robertson shows why leaders fail, why fear prevents leaders from really fulfilling their potential, and how they can recover through techniques of self-awareness and self-management. She also illustrates the impact leadership has on high- versus low-performing cultures.
While there are many books out there on how to manage better, there are few, if any, that talk about changing from within. Robertson addresses the transformative process that helps leaders change their self-image, reframe their minds, awake spiritually, find inner truth and honesty, and achieve a level of transcendence–all critical elements of leadership wisdom.
For individual leaders, teams, and organizations, REAL Leadership: Waking to Wisdom is a valuable tool for learning how to change the very nature of our inner being, become conscious, healthy, and well-adjusted, and bring positive energy to everything we do in life.
Based on principles such as mutual respect and caring, Robertson’s philosophy is a welcome change in management doctrine. It’s management for better organizational accomplishment as well as for the greater good of the individual and, by extension, society in general.
224 pages, Kindle Edition
Published April 7, 2019
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April 25, 2019
Let's Get Real
'"There is a single quality that separates truly great leaders from the average, and that is the ability to be real." With that springboard statement, Susan Robertson begins her in depth narrative about what makes for a powerful leader in today's culture and business environment.
She equates being real in the business world as "waking up" and suggests that operating a business today is not so much about sustainability and profitability, but about building a conscious culture within the business dynamics and the actual leaders. She further argues that this is due to the fact that businesses hire and provide customer services to millennialists and that this segment of the population wants to work for organizations and conduct business with organizations that can both make a "living and make a life."
Real leadership: Waken to Wisdom by Susan Robertson is a methodical step by step hand book that first of all explains what being real is all about and challenges the reader to take a candid look at their current leadership traits to the point of where they need to be. The destination being a leader that is resilient empowered, authentic and limber.
The nine chapters take the open-minded reader through a process of self awareness, identifying those fears that would limit leadership abilities, helping to analyze current leadership traits, characteristics of real leadership, etc.
Susan Robertson, an accomplished writer, successfully achieves the goal of the book through her own personal and professional experience as well as a healthy sprinkling of successful antidotes to help illustrate her points.
The book is professionally written and may just possibly be a must read for the leaders of today to lead the leadership team and engage in business realism.
'"There is a single quality that separates truly great leaders from the average, and that is the ability to be real." With that springboard statement, Susan Robertson begins her in depth narrative about what makes for a powerful leader in today's culture and business environment.
She equates being real in the business world as "waking up" and suggests that operating a business today is not so much about sustainability and profitability, but about building a conscious culture within the business dynamics and the actual leaders. She further argues that this is due to the fact that businesses hire and provide customer services to millennialists and that this segment of the population wants to work for organizations and conduct business with organizations that can both make a "living and make a life."
Real leadership: Waken to Wisdom by Susan Robertson is a methodical step by step hand book that first of all explains what being real is all about and challenges the reader to take a candid look at their current leadership traits to the point of where they need to be. The destination being a leader that is resilient empowered, authentic and limber.
The nine chapters take the open-minded reader through a process of self awareness, identifying those fears that would limit leadership abilities, helping to analyze current leadership traits, characteristics of real leadership, etc.
Susan Robertson, an accomplished writer, successfully achieves the goal of the book through her own personal and professional experience as well as a healthy sprinkling of successful antidotes to help illustrate her points.
The book is professionally written and may just possibly be a must read for the leaders of today to lead the leadership team and engage in business realism.
April 30, 2019
For all the books you can find on leadership skills, they are all kind of blending together for me. Yes, of course a leader must be charismatic and be able to make people believe them and want to follow them and their ideas. Hitler was a perfect example of this but we all know how that turned out. I don't think the basics of leadership are in question and Susan Robertson focuses on that natural leader and how he or she can personally improve for overall positive momentum.
Real Leadership: Waken To Wisdom takes this theme of inner improvement and applies it in the business world where, naturally, leaders tend to come in handy. The author's command of the subject matter is obvious, the chapters are arranged logically and the wording is straight forward and in layman's terms. So yes, this is another leadership book but it also happens to be a good one for those in business to take a look at.
Real Leadership: Waken To Wisdom takes this theme of inner improvement and applies it in the business world where, naturally, leaders tend to come in handy. The author's command of the subject matter is obvious, the chapters are arranged logically and the wording is straight forward and in layman's terms. So yes, this is another leadership book but it also happens to be a good one for those in business to take a look at.
May 2, 2019
An introspective look at leadership
Real Leadership talks about going beyond the principals of effective leadership to find the motivation inside of a person to be a leader. I think this lends itself to the current work/life balance that employees are desiring. Managers must want to be involved and to lead well, not just expect it. This book was a great tool for that self look. I think these ideas could help non-management employees be better as well. Find what motivates you to succeed and capture it.
Real Leadership talks about going beyond the principals of effective leadership to find the motivation inside of a person to be a leader. I think this lends itself to the current work/life balance that employees are desiring. Managers must want to be involved and to lead well, not just expect it. This book was a great tool for that self look. I think these ideas could help non-management employees be better as well. Find what motivates you to succeed and capture it.
June 16, 2021
As the author of this book, I put the book down for 1.5 years before reading it. I wanted a set of fresh eyes to look at what I wrote and shared.
There are key steps you can take to become a REAL leader. It starts with resilience. Resilience is a critical aspect of how we behave. If you want to become distinctive in your leadership style, this is worth a read.
There are key steps you can take to become a REAL leader. It starts with resilience. Resilience is a critical aspect of how we behave. If you want to become distinctive in your leadership style, this is worth a read.
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