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Alignment Strong: A Strategic and Human-Centric Handbook for Competitive Leadership
In our modern unforgiving and complex global market environment, this groundbreaking organizational change framework will allow you and your company to sustainably compete and thrive
In this inspirational guide, ex-CEO and road-tested executive leadership coach John E. Quinlan takes you as a leader on a journey of self-discovery.
Years ago, deep in the Utah desert near the end of a long motorcycle trek, Quinlan had a vision of perfect organizational alignment—with da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man at the core. This concept became Alignment Strong.
Concise yet impassioned, this essential handbook clarifies the ten components of Quinlan’s proven competitive leadership model by overlaying them on a depiction of da Vinci’s ideal human form. As a result, the perfect organizational alignment converges with the ultimate individual alignment.
By following the Alignment Strong framework, you will learn the importance of
• articulating your own change philosophy and applying a shared formula with deftness;
• finding vulnerability and courage by understanding your own personal power, blind spots (CEO disease), career derailers, and resistance to change;
• integrating strategic and human-centric systems within your enterprise to increase organizational health, financial results, and competitive posture;
• aligning espoused core values with strategic vision, mission, leadership/team, strategy, goals, and a performance management system, while culturally imbedding an appetite for change.
Utilizing research and advice from top business and thought leaders, as well as self, organizational, and team assessments, Quinlan enables you to transform not only yourself, but your company.
Quinlan is recognized as an entrepreneurial polymath by Inc. magazine.
In this inspirational guide, ex-CEO and road-tested executive leadership coach John E. Quinlan takes you as a leader on a journey of self-discovery.
Years ago, deep in the Utah desert near the end of a long motorcycle trek, Quinlan had a vision of perfect organizational alignment—with da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man at the core. This concept became Alignment Strong.
Concise yet impassioned, this essential handbook clarifies the ten components of Quinlan’s proven competitive leadership model by overlaying them on a depiction of da Vinci’s ideal human form. As a result, the perfect organizational alignment converges with the ultimate individual alignment.
By following the Alignment Strong framework, you will learn the importance of
• articulating your own change philosophy and applying a shared formula with deftness;
• finding vulnerability and courage by understanding your own personal power, blind spots (CEO disease), career derailers, and resistance to change;
• integrating strategic and human-centric systems within your enterprise to increase organizational health, financial results, and competitive posture;
• aligning espoused core values with strategic vision, mission, leadership/team, strategy, goals, and a performance management system, while culturally imbedding an appetite for change.
Utilizing research and advice from top business and thought leaders, as well as self, organizational, and team assessments, Quinlan enables you to transform not only yourself, but your company.
Quinlan is recognized as an entrepreneurial polymath by Inc. magazine.
241 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 13, 2020
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About the author
John E. Quinlan
3 books12 followersJohn E. Quinlan has been a corporate CEO in Detroit and a rainforest entrepreneur in Papa New Guinea. His journey led him to consulting and coaching executives on the power of vulnerability.
John’s first book, Tau Bada, is a memoir of experiences and an accounting of all he learned along the way that can help other executives with self-discovery, growth and the drive to achieve business and personal relationship goals.
John’s TEDxWilmington talk, “Journey Into Vulnerability – Lessons From A Rainforest CEO” gives viewers a sense of his experiences and a glimpse of the adventure that led to his revelations.
“What I realized, after the various turning points, revelations, the hard-won victories and the huge losses, is acceptance and the quest to keep moving ahead.” John E. Quinlan
John lives in Grosse Pointe, Michigan with his wife Fiona.
John’s first book, Tau Bada, is a memoir of experiences and an accounting of all he learned along the way that can help other executives with self-discovery, growth and the drive to achieve business and personal relationship goals.
John’s TEDxWilmington talk, “Journey Into Vulnerability – Lessons From A Rainforest CEO” gives viewers a sense of his experiences and a glimpse of the adventure that led to his revelations.
“What I realized, after the various turning points, revelations, the hard-won victories and the huge losses, is acceptance and the quest to keep moving ahead.” John E. Quinlan
John lives in Grosse Pointe, Michigan with his wife Fiona.
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March 31, 2021
Pretty sure my workplace has spent tens of thousands on consultants when they could have just read this book.
December 6, 2020
Fascinating!
Thank you for sharing your talents. This book was super informative and it gave me the equipment to have a better balanced life.
Thank you for sharing your talents. This book was super informative and it gave me the equipment to have a better balanced life.
July 6, 2022
I am great full I won this from goodreads first reads.i just felt it didn't attract my attention as i hoped.it gives a lot of insight and information but I lost interest.maybe a second read might help.
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