LEAD! Book 2: Developing Your Leadership Style

Put your unique leadership style into practice. LEAD! Book 2: Developing Your Leadership Style gives aspiring leaders everything they need to develop their own unique leadership and management style. Author Gregory H. Garrison’s LEAD! Book 1 helped readers to find their personal, intrinsic foundation for leadership; LEAD! Book 2 completes their curriculum with techniques, methodologies, and case studies to evolve that leadership identity into a unique, authentic management practice specific to them. LEAD! Book 2 leverages Garrison’s decades of experience in executive leadership roles, provides case studies from around the organisational world, and summarises and puts into practice lessons from the greatest hits of management literature. It explores a myriad of proven approaches to creativity and innovation, organisational design methodology, managing outsourced and remote teams, and other timely and timeless challenges of leaders. It gives readers the methods, processes, and tools they need to shape a practice that works in the real world and feels right for them. Like its first volume, LEAD! Book 2 complements management MBAs and executive education and corporate training, and helps ascendent middle managers, management consultants, students, trainers, and mentors navigate daily leadership challenges in an authentic and fulfilling way.

About the Author :
Gregory H. Garrison is a new media, business, and technology leader with 35 years as a CTO/CIO and director of three innovation labs. He specializes in digital transformation, IT strategy, and change management. He is a technologist, futurist, innovator, TV media analyst, consultant, and speaker. Greg's past positions include: Senior Strategic Advisor for Accenture Consulting Europe; CIO/CTO and IT Innovation Director at TUI Group; Media Analyst, Futurist, and Technology Director at PwC London Menlo Park Europe Technology; He was Director of Mobiles and Broadband for AOL Europe, IT Director for Vodafone; CTO/CIO in the Dotcom world; and Innovation and Training Director for Reuters and American Express. Greg has lived and worked in the UK, Europe, and Asia for 35 years. He is based in Palma Mallorca, Spain, and spends time in London and San Francisco.

Review :
'"identity is possibly the most important and misunderstood aspect of leadership. Every leader is unique. Recognizing and developing our own secret sauce is the key to being an effective and authentic leader. Greg Garrison is a great leader and a great teacher of leadership. This book is required reading for anyone who aspires to lead in a way that makes a positive difference in the world.” —Des Dearlove, cofounder of Thinkers50 “Garrison makes a big difference. Enlightened leadership is important to almost every business breakthrough. The ability to improvise is critical to his team's success.... Garrison is an impresario, creating a new way of doing business as he goes. Garrison's flexibility is essential to this exceptional success story.” —Tom Peters   “His unique approach pushes at the frontiers of current management thinking and could radically redefine the nature of organizations.” —The Financial Times "In this volume, Greg Garrison further develops his convincing ideas about leadership,  ideas that weave together important academic texts with his own frontline industry experience and inspirational guidance. In doing so, Garrison provides the reader, whether or not a leader of a multinational corporation, leader of a start-up, or of a local community group with inspirational guidance to help steer their own practice." —Dr. Richard Adams, reader in entrepreneurship, Cranfield School of Management "10,000 hours? Garrison has 100,000 hours as a successful, innovative, senior line manager. Pay heed and Lead!" —Jim Sterne, author, speaker, and consultant “[Garrison is] an internationally known speaker…a tech guru.” —Silicon Republic "Greg Garrison provides the potential leader with a comprehensive overview of the study of leadership literature and practice. He shares an insightful overview of his personal experience and journey of becoming an exceptional leader. Greg presents a common-sense approach to becoming an effective leader. His approach is easy to understand and provides first-hand accounts of the challenges of achieving exemplary results." —Ernie Lopez, organizational development consultant