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Right Leader, Right Time: Discover Your Leadership Style for a Winning Career and Company
"Jordan and Wagner write with clarity and energy throughout, and businesspeople who seek to more fully understand the nature of their leadership style are likely to learn a lot." - Kirkus Reviews
"Right Leader Right Time is an excellent overview of the skills needed both to launch a new business or improve an existing one. Robert Jordan and Olivia Wagner offer a crucial insight - that there is no on formula for success nor one style that fits all situations. Instead they offer four styles - Fixer, Artist, Builder and Strategist - and explain the particular talents that each has to offer. Above all, they combine their theory with numerous real world examples that prove their point. In a world of electronic immersion and global tribes, Right Leader Right Time is the right book at the right time." - JAMES RICKARDS , Author, National Best Sellers Currency The Making of the Next Global Crisis , and The Death of Money.
How is it that some leaders win brilliantly and repeatedly, while others struggle to reach their full potential? Over a decade, Robert Jordan and Olivia Wagner set out to answer this question, interviewing thousands of leaders and matching top executives with struggling or high-growth organizations, learning first-hand what separated the rockstars from the rest. In Right Leader Right Time they identify four unique leadership styles—Fixer, Artist, Builder, and Strategist (FABS)—that when applied to the right role at the right time, skyrocket success for both the leader and the organization. Learn your FABS leadership style and discover a framework that will elevate you as a leader to greater career success while giving a blueprint for organizations to build collaborative, intentional teams. Right Leader Right Time is filled with insights and inspiration It’s time to find the key to acting in alignment with your highest and best use – because that’s where the magic happens. Take the FABS Leadership Assessment at to discover your leadership style and see how acting in your best mode powers you for success in particular organization, stages, and situations. Embrace the career you’ve dreamed of!
Robert Jordan and Olivia Wagner are principals in InterimExecs, a Chicago-based company that specializes in placing the right leaders in the right positions at the right time.
"Right Leader Right Time is an excellent overview of the skills needed both to launch a new business or improve an existing one. Robert Jordan and Olivia Wagner offer a crucial insight - that there is no on formula for success nor one style that fits all situations. Instead they offer four styles - Fixer, Artist, Builder and Strategist - and explain the particular talents that each has to offer. Above all, they combine their theory with numerous real world examples that prove their point. In a world of electronic immersion and global tribes, Right Leader Right Time is the right book at the right time." - JAMES RICKARDS , Author, National Best Sellers Currency The Making of the Next Global Crisis , and The Death of Money.
How is it that some leaders win brilliantly and repeatedly, while others struggle to reach their full potential? Over a decade, Robert Jordan and Olivia Wagner set out to answer this question, interviewing thousands of leaders and matching top executives with struggling or high-growth organizations, learning first-hand what separated the rockstars from the rest. In Right Leader Right Time they identify four unique leadership styles—Fixer, Artist, Builder, and Strategist (FABS)—that when applied to the right role at the right time, skyrocket success for both the leader and the organization. Learn your FABS leadership style and discover a framework that will elevate you as a leader to greater career success while giving a blueprint for organizations to build collaborative, intentional teams. Right Leader Right Time is filled with insights and inspiration It’s time to find the key to acting in alignment with your highest and best use – because that’s where the magic happens. Take the FABS Leadership Assessment at to discover your leadership style and see how acting in your best mode powers you for success in particular organization, stages, and situations. Embrace the career you’ve dreamed of!
Robert Jordan and Olivia Wagner are principals in InterimExecs, a Chicago-based company that specializes in placing the right leaders in the right positions at the right time.
240 pages, Paperback
Published March 29, 2022
About the author
Robert Jordan
5 booksRobert Jordan has been launching and growing companies and helping other entrepreneurs do the same for the past 20 years. He is author of How They Did It: Billion Dollar Insights from the Heart of America (RedFlash Press), $41 billion worth of inspiration from 45 leading founders. His startup, Online Access, the first Internet-coverage magazine, landed on the Inc. 500 list of fastest growing companies. His newest endeavors are RedFlash project implementation team, and interimCEOinterimCFO, a worldwide network of interim, contract, and project executives.
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August 4, 2022
This is a great book for professionals who want to understand what are the kind of professional challenges they should be looking for to create the biggest impact possible.
Flow: 5/5
Actionability: 5/5
Mindset: 5/5
Some of My Highlights:
"When the right leader shows up, everyone breathes easy."
"The most effective leaders did not try to be all things to all people."
"Why then, in the management of organizations, is the exact role and application of a leader still so ill-defined?"
"Power comes from recognizing, accepting, and acting wholeheartedly in alignment with your unique wiring. This alignment, however, need not be selfish in the sense of accounting only for yourself."
"...but not give or take in a way that's not at least fairly close to an authentic expression of ourselves. Otherwise it's not sustainable."
"No leader is perfect in all situations."
"Successful people make career decisions that cut off options."
"...he and his board realized he was a much better founder than CEO."
"We hope you feel even more empowered to leave your positive stamp on the world. To reinforce your path to peace of mind and fulfilling your soul's desire."
"'We kill what is called 'best practices'', Kish says. 'Best practices that work for one company might be the worst practice for another.'"
"He advocates for continual refining of what works and what doesn't."
"Histories of Napoleon Bonaparte and Alexander the Great each report how much their enemies respected and feared their speed in battle."
"'You're looking for themes and threads. I don't have time to do a hundred things. I've got to pick three to five things to do really well.'"
"Fixers tend to be straight shooters."
"All successful organizations experience points of maximum stress that test a leader's abilities."
"No matter how much you research before you buy, you always learn more after you own the place,"
"Creating measurable goals and continuing to push the limits is a big driver."
"Boy, does that send an electrifying signal through the company and that travels through the hallways pretty quickly."
"...giving them some time to vent before we move on to how we're going to fix it. They need that."
"Despite best efforts, even the best leaders and motivators find that not everyone wants to come along for the ride. 'These are high-pressure situations where people are asked to do more in a shorter period of time than they probably have ever done in their careers,' Short says."
"...he goes for the easiest ideas with the biggest potential return."
"...but the audience doesn't care how beautiful your code looks if it doesn't solve a problem for them."
"Mozart admitted he wrote music 'the way cows pissed.' It just happened. It was unstoppable. It was the motivating force driving his existence."
Flow: 5/5
Actionability: 5/5
Mindset: 5/5
Some of My Highlights:
"When the right leader shows up, everyone breathes easy."
"The most effective leaders did not try to be all things to all people."
"Why then, in the management of organizations, is the exact role and application of a leader still so ill-defined?"
"Power comes from recognizing, accepting, and acting wholeheartedly in alignment with your unique wiring. This alignment, however, need not be selfish in the sense of accounting only for yourself."
"...but not give or take in a way that's not at least fairly close to an authentic expression of ourselves. Otherwise it's not sustainable."
"No leader is perfect in all situations."
"Successful people make career decisions that cut off options."
"...he and his board realized he was a much better founder than CEO."
"We hope you feel even more empowered to leave your positive stamp on the world. To reinforce your path to peace of mind and fulfilling your soul's desire."
"'We kill what is called 'best practices'', Kish says. 'Best practices that work for one company might be the worst practice for another.'"
"He advocates for continual refining of what works and what doesn't."
"Histories of Napoleon Bonaparte and Alexander the Great each report how much their enemies respected and feared their speed in battle."
"'You're looking for themes and threads. I don't have time to do a hundred things. I've got to pick three to five things to do really well.'"
"Fixers tend to be straight shooters."
"All successful organizations experience points of maximum stress that test a leader's abilities."
"No matter how much you research before you buy, you always learn more after you own the place,"
"Creating measurable goals and continuing to push the limits is a big driver."
"Boy, does that send an electrifying signal through the company and that travels through the hallways pretty quickly."
"...giving them some time to vent before we move on to how we're going to fix it. They need that."
"Despite best efforts, even the best leaders and motivators find that not everyone wants to come along for the ride. 'These are high-pressure situations where people are asked to do more in a shorter period of time than they probably have ever done in their careers,' Short says."
"...he goes for the easiest ideas with the biggest potential return."
"...but the audience doesn't care how beautiful your code looks if it doesn't solve a problem for them."
"Mozart admitted he wrote music 'the way cows pissed.' It just happened. It was unstoppable. It was the motivating force driving his existence."
July 14, 2026
Interesting take on different leadership styles and requirements 6.5/10
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