Textbook Ebook Lead Through Anything Harness Purpose Vitality and Agility To Thrive in The Face of Unrelenting Change Dustin Seale All Chapter PDF
Textbook Ebook Lead Through Anything Harness Purpose Vitality and Agility To Thrive in The Face of Unrelenting Change Dustin Seale All Chapter PDF
Textbook Ebook Lead Through Anything Harness Purpose Vitality and Agility To Thrive in The Face of Unrelenting Change Dustin Seale All Chapter PDF
If you only read one book this year with an aim toward improving
your leadership skills and your business, make it Lead Through
Anything. This book is a gold mine of knowledge and strategy.
—TIMMI ZALATORIS
CHRO, Sprouts Farmers Market
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CONTENTS
PART 1
PART 2
PART 3
BRINGING THRIVING TO LIFE TODAY AND
TOMORROW
CHAPTER 6 Liftoff: The Power of All Three at Work
Afterword
Notes
Index
FOREWORD
By Dr. Marshall Goldsmith
A
s lockdown began in March 2020 and the world grappled with
the unprecedented challenges brought on by Covid-19, I
found myself in a unique position. While many industries were
reeling from the impacts of the pandemic, my work as an advisor
and coach was in higher demand than ever before. CEOs, leaders,
and organizations from all corners of the globe reached out, seeking
guidance on navigating the storm and steering their companies away
from disaster.
During this tumultuous time, Ed Manfre and Dustin Seale were
sharing a similar realization. They observed a glaring gap in
leadership training when it came to weathering major storms. While
many leaders possessed the skills to handle day-to-day fires, they
were ill-prepared to tackle the monumental crises that threaten
companies and shake economies. Dustin and Ed recognized the
pressing need for a comprehensive model that could equip leaders
with the tools to address challenges both big and small.
In their book, Lead Through Anything, Ed and Dustin have taken
on the formidable task of filling this void. Drawing from their
extensive experience advising executives worldwide, they provide a
refreshing perspective on leadership. They steer away from
overwhelming checklists and instead offer a comprehensive model
that simplifies the complexities of leadership and culture. Through
self-reflection and self-assessment, readers are encouraged to
identify their strengths and areas for growth, empowering them to
achieve equilibrium and become thriving leaders.
Lead Through Anything takes readers on a transformative
journey, exploring each foundational principle of the Thriving state
and providing practical methods for fostering a Thriving
organizational environment. It delves into the three foundational
principles of purpose, vitality, and agility. These principles are not
only applicable during times of crisis, but are essential for fostering
Thriving organizations in any circumstances. By embracing these
principles, leaders can develop the resilience, adaptability, and
foresight necessary to guide their teams and organizations through
turbulent waters.
What sets Lead Through Anything apart in the realm of leadership
development is Dustin and Ed’s remarkable depth of experience in
the field. Their genuine understanding of the challenges faced by
leaders stems from their hands-on work with clients, assisting them
in transforming their organizations from the inside out. This book
transcends mere theories and case studies, as it is rooted in the
real-world application of their model, witnessed time and time again.
Their insights are not hypothetical, but rather grounded in the
realities of leadership in action.
In a time where leadership is tested like never before, this book
equips leaders with the tools, insights, and strategies needed to
navigate complexity, inspire teams, and drive organizational success.
I encourage every leader, whether seasoned or aspiring, to embrace
the wisdom within these pages and embark on a transformative
journey toward more effective and resilient leadership.
A Better Way
R
oger Enrico and Martin Glenn sat in silence.
Roger, then head of PepsiCo Worldwide, and Martin, then
CEO of PepsiCo UK and Ireland, were debating the future of
one of Martin’s most promising lieutenants at a corporate succession
retreat. Both were equally unyielding in ongoing conversations about
PepsiCo’s future leadership.
At an impasse, neither knew where to go next. But as key
executives in the C-suite, alignment between the two about the
company’s future direction was critical.
Roger was sure he was right about Martin’s candidate, but also
frustrated he hadn’t been able to communicate that successfully.
Martin thought he understood Roger’s objections, but he didn’t
buy into them. Adamant that his candidate was the right fit, he
would not let the subject drop.
Martin broke the silence.
“Roger, yes, I get it—he isn’t a people person,” Martin said. “But
everything else checks out.”
Roger took a breath as he found the point he’d been waiting to
make:
“Unfortunately, Martin,” he said, smiling, “people are the only
species we employ.”
For Roger, intelligence that facilitated results was not enough.
Instead, he saw a leader’s real gift as taking people along by
inspiring them to achieve purpose-driven personal and organizational
success. This was one of the company’s key leadership drivers. As
the architect of Pepsi’s successful growth strategies at the end of the
twentieth century, Roger knew that leaders who elevate their people,
teams, and companies can achieve something much bigger than
simple, short-term objectives: they can learn to lead through
anything.
Roger’s observation carries even more weight now than it did
then. In today’s world of near-constant disruption, a slew of
conflicting demands conspire to crush leaders. Internally, employees
require personalized leadership tailored for different generations,
cultures, and age groups. Externally, never-ending geopolitical,
climate, financial, and health crises conspire to continually raise the
stakes.
As lifelong students of leadership, we’ve observed how this chaos
affects leaders: while some thrive, many others buckle under the
strain. There is, unfortunately, no universal leadership handbook all
managers are given when they get promoted. Instead, they’re
forced to navigate through an unending stream of books, social
media posts, and lectures. While well-intended, much of that
guidance makes it easy to get lost in the details by creating
unnecessary complexity that makes it hard to understand the big
picture and the true essence of leadership. This is why we’ve written
this book: to provide the time-tested guidance that we’ve found
sorely lacking in even the bestselling leadership titles.
As you’ll learn as you progress through this book, our training as
professional leadership advisors and coaches has inspired us to take
a different approach. Our mission involves identifying the most
promising ideas within this complex landscape. But we don’t just
stand outside the battle and advise. We’re in the trenches with our
clients. What we’re sharing has been road tested, built over 40-plus
years, and is constantly evolving with the largest, most complex
organizations, as well as some of the smallest and fastest-growing
ones in the world.
This book represents a collaboration born of our two-decade
partnership as leadership advisors, colleagues across multiple firms,
and personal friends. Dustin brings more than 30 years of
experience advising senior executives, and Ed nearly 20. Our bond
straddles two generations (Gen X and millennial) and two continents
(Europe and North America). Between us, we’ve coached and
advised hundreds of executives and C-suite teams across every
industry vertical in more than 70 countries.
Today, we are partners in the London and Los Angeles offices of
one of the world’s top leadership advisory firms, which for many
years has provided consulting services to more than 70 percent of
Fortune 1000 companies around the world.
A leader’s journey of growth is inherently personal, so our
relationships with our clients stretch far beyond the office, corporate
conference rooms, and Zoom sessions. We focus on creating trusted
bonds, and in many cases, deep friendships, which we cultivate
through shared experiences. We’ve raced kayaks with a global
leadership team on Lake Mondsee in Austria, sung karaoke with
energy industry executives at Orlando’s Disney World, toasted to
client successes with financial services leaders atop the Park Hyatt in
Tokyo, and played soccer with a global consumer business
leadership team in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
Through the years, we’ve grown into members of each other’s
families. If one of us faces a crisis, or wants to celebrate a big win,
the other gets a text, phone call, or Zoom. We haven’t always
worked on the same projects together, but our shared belief in the
power of leadership has created an unbreakable bond that led to
writing this book.
We believe the escalating challenges and crises of the modern era
make exceptional leadership truly indispensable. Our lifelong
commitment is to not only create a world better led today, but also
to create a road map we can entrust to future generations—
including our kids—that will enable them to lead through anything
and build a better world long into the future.
Our objective with this book is to deliver a logical, inspirational,
and simplified approach to leadership that cuts through the ever-
growing noise that leaders encounter. This approach will help you
improve your resilience, effectiveness, and impact. In other words,
we want to help you realize your potential to become a Thriving
individual and leader who shapes Thriving organizations. Our
strategies are unique in that they are designed to help you
continually level up your impact as an individual, manager, and
leader. They’re adaptable to whatever situation you find yourself in—
whether that involves knitting together a diverse team of managers,
coaching an underperforming employee, managing boardroom
expectations, launching a new strategy, or coaxing a reluctant
teenager to mow the lawn.
As you’ll learn in Chapter 1, Thriving is a personal and leadership
mentality that balances purpose, vitality, and agility to achieve
sustainable success. Individual greatness—stardom—is often
reachable with an imbalance, and can destabilize or diminish the
impact of others around the “star” leader. In comparison, the well-
balanced leaders we are highlighting not only outperform as
individuals, but also make the people and organizations around
them better. So that you can orient yourself most effectively with
this approach, here are some helpful ideas to keep in mind.
Souvent femme varie, and the mind of Tzŭ Hsi never ran
consistently for long in the same groove. Anxious always as to her
popularity with all parties in the State, and with a view to adjusting
that nice equilibrium of conflicting forces which constituted the pride
of her statecraft and the strength of her rule, we find her next issuing
a Decree which set forth the principles by which she professed to be
guided. This Decree reflects a certain amount of anxiety and a doubt
as to whether the punishment inflicted on the leading reformers
might not be severely criticised by the outside world. Her Majesty
therefore decrees:—
Thus was Tzŭ Hsi established in her pride of place and thus were
sown the seeds of that great upheaval which was soon to shake the
Empire to its foundations.
XVI
THE GENESIS OF THE BOXER MOVEMENT
The history of the Boxers has been so fully written, and so many
excellent accounts given of the origins and contributing factors of the
movement, that any further reference to the matter may seem
superfluous. Nevertheless, the following extracts from a letter
addressed by Jung Lu to his friend Hsü Ying-kuei, the Viceroy of
Fukien, may throw some new light, not only on the causes of the
growth of the movement in Chihli but also on the character, private
opinions and political methods of the Empress Dowager’s favourite
and trusted adviser. It was written in the early part of July 1900.