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Book of the Week (#36): The Leader You Want to Be

Five Essential Principles for Bringing Out Your Best Self—Every Day


When writing this entry, I have not finished listening to the audiobook that lasts more than six hours.


The reason I borrowed this book is that I am giving a speech next Tuesday on leadership. I would like to expand my knowledge on the subject and this book got my attention.


By focusing in specific ways on five key leadership elements—Purpose, Process, People, Presence, and Peace—you can increase your time, capacity, energy, and ultimately your impact, with less stress and more equanimity.


Below is from a book review:


  1. PURPOSE: Remain grounded in your passions and contributions.

  2. PROCESS: Rely on daily practices and routines that honor your natural energy rhythms, enhance performance, save time, help you restore, and provide critical guardrails that keep you on point.

  3. PEOPLE: Raise your game by raising the game of others at work and at home. Increase your resilience with healthier boundaries and rules of engagement with others.

  4. PRESENCE: Strengthen your inner capacity to pause between stimulus and response, so matters of effectiveness and impact drive decisions and actions, rather than old habits or knee-jerk impulses.

  5. PEACE: Learn to trust your capacities to evolve, adapt, and respond to whatever comes your way. Lead from a place of acceptance, gratitude, and trust, rather than a place of stress, striving, and ego protection.


The Leader You Want to Be is the indispensable guide to helping you tap into and expand your leadership capacity so that you can sustain your optimal level of performance and thrive as a leader.




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