Leveraging the Genetics of Leadership (eBook)

Cracking the code of sustainable team performance

Daniel Edds MBA (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2021
231 Seiten
Bookbaby (Verlag)
978-1-0879-1766-5 (ISBN)

Infos

How do high impact organizations approach the practice of leadership? They do it by custom-engineering an organizational DNA that is systemic. Leveraging the Genetics of Leadership is the first book of its kind that reveals this revolutionary new approach to leadership. The result is organizations that are setting new standards for employee engagement and customer value. Dan Edds documents through meticulous research, case studies, compelling examples, and personal interviews with leaders of organizations innovating the very foundations of leadership. His research comes from healthcare, manufacturing, the US Military, small business, and education, and groups a diverse as the New York Mafia and the Salvation Army.

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You've likely read other leadership books. This one is different. Leveraging the Genetics of Leadership radically innovates traditional models of leadership by rearranging core organizational elements into a designed system. A system that will scale mission, vision, and values across the enterprise. A system that will create a workforce engaged in creating extraordinary value for all stakeholders. The result is an unparalleled organizational performance that makes customers line up at your door. In these pages, you will learn how elite organizations: Engage their entire workforce in creating customer value Custom-engineer their leadership DNA or genetic code Create a workforce that becomes their biggest ambassadors Design rules, routines, and organizational habits that will ignite innovationTraditional books on leadership strive to create courageous leaders who will attract followers. Leveraging the Genetics of Leadership will show you how to create a courageous workforce who will attract customers. The result is unparalleled performance and a workforce that grows into confident and empowered human beings. It all begins when you learn how to leverage the genetics of leadership.

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What People Are Saying About

Daniel Edds and Leveraging the Genetics of Leadership

“Daniel Edds has the unique ability to explain what outstanding leaders create without delving into who they are. The inspired results he describes across a wide range of institutions attest to the abilities great leaders have to develop leaderful organizations. By distilling the essence of effective leadership systems, he shows us how to continuously tap the potential of each individual in service of a powerful whole. His systemic focus enables organizations to sustain high performance without depending on the capabilities of any one leader.”

— David Peter Stroh, Social Systems Consultant and Best-Selling

Author of Systems Thinking for Social Change

“Daniel Edds hits the ball out of the park with Leveraging the Genetics of Leadership. In it, he reveals too much has been written about personal leadership and not enough about how leadership needs to be thought of as a system we can implement in our workplaces so that when that dynamic leader leaves the company, the system continues to operate and the company to succeed. Brilliant!”

— Patrick Snow, Publishing Coach and International Best-Selling

Author of Creating Your Own Destiny and Boy Entrepreneur

“Through a series of excellent examples based on personal interviews and meticulous research, Daniel Edds shows how individuals can turn around organizations by showing those organizations how to value a type of leadership that is systemic and inclusive so that everyone benefits, from the CEO to the employees at all levels to the customers. Leveraging the Genetics of Leadership is highly readable and highly invaluable.”

— Tyler R. Tichelaar, PhD and Award-Winning Author of

When Teddy Came to Town

“The vast majority of books on leadership fall into the trap of obsessing about the characteristics of the perfect leader. This is illusory because leaders always lead in relationship with followers, who themselves may also be leaders within their own contexts. An organization becomes effective because it works as a system—a set of functional parts interacting to achieve a purpose, and leadership is one such necessary part. Indeed, what if leadership itself is a system—a subsystem of the wider organization. If leadership is a system, engaged in relationships with other systems to create a high-performing, purposeful whole, it means that anybody with integrity and a reasonable level of emotional intelligence can learn how to lead. This is Daniel Edds’ insight, gained from a consultancy career and deep conversations with the leaders of exceptional organizations. While ‘systemic leadership’ is a new buzzword in business and management schools around the world, Daniel comes straight from the sharp end of practice and delivers one of the most clearly written books I have seen in a while—with systemic insight, but unencumbered by jargon. Read and enjoy!”

— Gerald Midgley, Professor of Systems Thinking, Centre for

Systems Studies, Business School, University of Hull, UK and 2013-2014

President of the International Society for the Systems Sciences

“Daniel Edds’ Leveraging the Genetics of Leadership is full of truths about leadership that are often overlooked. Using a DNA metaphor, he reveals what creates a working system of leadership in an organization and how those elements can be used by the reader to replicate such a system in their own organization. This book will have you rethinking everything you thought you knew about leadership and reassembling it into a new model that truly works.”

— Nicole Gabriel, Author of Finding Your Inner Truth

and Stepping Into Your Own Becoming

“Walt Disney is best known for timeless classics and a theme park known to be the ‘Happiest Place on Earth.’ What is less known about Walt is his approach to leadership. In Leveraging the Genetics of Leadership, Dan Edds has discovered the principles of leadership that are producing organizational greatness across multiple industries. These are the same principles Walt used to create the largest entertainment company in the world.”

— Dr. Jeffrey A. Barnes, Author of The Wisdom

of Walt and Beyond the Wisdom of Walt

“For more than thirty-five years, I have had a front row seat to what drives the delivery of quality healthcare. I’ve seen what works and what does not work. I had the opportunity to preview an early draft of this book, and I felt then, and even more so now, that Leveraging the Genetics Leadership is a must read for anyone in healthcare leadership. Dan’s concept of leadership as a designed organizational system has the potential for a total transformation in our industry.”

— Tom Snyder, RN, BSN, MBA, CLSSBB, FACHE, and Health

System Quality Leader and Baldrige National Examiner

“As the founder and president of Success Plus Consulting, I have had the privilege of working with such brands as Coca-Cola, Tyson Foods, Johnsonville Foods, and Trident Seafood Brands. The central theme of my work has been the development of the workforce as the primary driver of revenue to reduce turnover and increase efficiencies. Leveraging the Genetics of Leadership documents what I have always done: creating systems of leadership that will outlive the individual leader. It is a must read.”

— Isaac Russell, Founder and President of Success Plus Consulting

and Author of Improving Profits Through People

“In the sea of books on leadership, only a few are beginning to examine leadership as a system. A system of leadership, open to design, test, evaluation, and evolution—adaptive to change and tuned for the twenty-first century. Dan Edds is among those few looking for systemic change. In Leveraging the Genetics of Leadership, he provides fresh insights based on case studies and personal interviews. His systems approach to leadership is replicable and scalable from the smallest to the most complex organizations.”

— Richard Hodge, PhD and Author of A Systems Approach to

Strategy and Execution in National Security Enterprises and Faculty

Member at Thought Leaders Business School, Australia

“Dan Edds gets it right! Our world needs an updated kind of leadership: an adaptive leadership system tailored to the DNA—the purpose, the culture, and the resources—of that specific organization.”

— Cory Bouck, Author of The Lens of Leadership:

Being the Leader Others WANT to Follow

“Leveraging the Genetics of Leadership is revolutionary. It shifts our paradigm from looking at leadership as a discrete personal choice to leadership as a system that can be understood and designed to give the desired output for any organization. This book articulates how organizations can harness leadership, consistently and continuously, by looking at it as a system.”

— Elekanyani Ndlovu, Energy Sector Senior Executive, Professional

Electrical Engineer (Pr. Eng), Non-Executive Director, Entrepreneur,

Systems and Design Thinker, Johannesburg, South Africa

“After thirty-one years of law enforcement service, I have led during times of major crisis including violence, riots, cyclical drug epidemics, and a high school mass shooting. I have seen the destruction and turmoil associated with human frailty and predatory criminal behavior. Dan Edds’ book Leveraging the Genetics of Leadership is written for such a time as this when police leaders and public servants need to apply a systems approach to institutionalize effective leadership values strategically so that police officers do the right thing for the right reason at the right time. The ideas and methodology of the book provide a clear roadmap and understanding that will, no doubt, enhance community-police relations. It is a ‘must read’ for all law enforcement leaders!”

— Rick Smith, Doctorate of Business

Administration and Chief of Police (Ret.)

“Daniel Edds has performed a great labor for all students of leadership. He has identified the vital few principles and practices from the trivial many. If leadership is a system, if it’s greater than the sum of its parts, what is that system? What are the component parts? How do those mutually reinforcing parts work together? And finally, how can leaders perpetuate a leadership system to live after them? This book is a gift for any leader who has been given the stewardship to lead, but doesn’t know how to approach it. A wonderful contribution to the leadership literature!”

— Timothy R. Clark, PhD, Author of The 4 Stages of Psychological

Safety: Defining the Path to Inclusion and Innovation

“Dan Edds’ Leveraging the Genetics of Leadership makes an important contribution to understanding effective leadership by introducing the concept of developing a leadership system versus developing “superhero” leaders. More than twenty years ago, I was...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.1.2021
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Unternehmensführung / Management
• Schlagworte: innovating leadership • Leadership Systems • Organizational Performance • Sustainable Performance • Systemic leadership • systems thinking • workforce engagement
• ISBN-10: 1-0879-1766-2 / 1087917662
• ISBN-13: 978-1-0879-1766-5 / 9781087917665