Seven Practices to Unleash Outrageous Potential
by Leslie Peters
Seven Practices to Unleash Outrageous Potential
by Leslie Peters
- Dean Carter, Head of Finance, HR and Legal at Patagonia
Follow the links below to access Finding Time to Lead.
Follow the links below to access Finding Time to Lead.
Includes free book download and a short audio series!
While the book was written for CEOs, it’s applicable to people at every level of an organization and to entrepreneurs.
Great leaders make three shifts
These aren’t really shifts, they’re expansions. It’s like shifting the lens from taking a regular picture to taking a picture with the panoramic view – there are more possibilities and choices when you consider doing and being, knowing and understanding and reacting and responding.
Finding Time to Lead explores seven practices that support these shifts.
Great leadership is a journey, not a destination and all journeys require that we embark.
The tools for EMBARK are about making the choice to embark on the journey, asking yourself “Who do I want to be right now?” and listening on three levels.
Exploring our personal story is the beginning of this journey because our personal stories influence how we show up.
The tools for EXPLORE are about knowing our story, avoiding being perfectly ourselves and inviting accountability.
Expanding our brains help us to think clearly, move into uncertainty with confidence and create space for possibility, even in the face of conflicting points of view.
The tools for EXPAND are: take a breath and count to ten, embrace disequilibrium, and hold the tension of opposites and ask “what if?”.
Leadership is a team sport. Leaders don’t control information, they provide opportunities for others to engage with information to make sense of it for themselves.
The tools for ENGAGE are about leading for commitment, seeking to understand and supporting the counter-narrative.
As a leader, you’re not just on your own hero’s journey, you’re the mentor to others who are on their own journey.
The tools for ENCOURAGE are about being the mentor, finding your “come from place,” and telling the truth.
Reflecting on our experiences and circumstances and paying attention to the ways we’re being called to grow and change enables us to show up in new ways.
The tools for EVOLVE are daring to say “I don’t know,” strengthening your reflection muscle and honoring time.
The true foundation for leadership is the will to extend ourselves – past our limitations, around our stories, beyond our self-interest, through our closed minds and into the space where we can offer the kind of love that connects us as humans.
The tools for EXTEND are to take it all in, believe in yourself and do the work.
Praise for Finding Time to Lead
Praise for Finding Time to Lead
“Time is the currency of leadership… Finding Time to Lead is how to wisely spend that currency. Aspiring and experienced leaders will benefit from the real life examples and practical tools.
“Sharing excellent examples from clients as well as her own stories, this author is like a smart, warm close friend who happens to be awesome at helping you reclaim your leadership mojo AND who knows without a doubt that you can do it.”
“I just read this (it took only a couple of hours on a business trip flight). I’d highly recommend it. Practical and powerful concepts to ensure everyone within an organization is performing and in alignment with strategy. It’s a very different kind of business book. Quick, readable and well worth your time.”
“Often books that are intended to assist and guide us to grow personally and professionally are full of elaborate plans that only succeed in adding to an already full plate. … Finding Time to Lead is the exact opposite. Chapter One, and every chapter thereafter, left me with an immediately applicable framework for expanding my skills and success as a leader of a small company.”
“Well written with some funny moments thrown in, this book was a delight to read and I’ll be using these tools in my own business.”
“The advice and tips in this book are so practical, so clear. This is talking about the real life, nitty-gritty of leadership and not some fanciful “way it should be.”
“I definitely recommend this book for anyone looking to improve their relationships with people and time.”
“One comes away from this book not necessarily with ‘answers’ but more importantly with strategies on how to get to answers, because the questions are always changing and knowing how to consider them is often that hardest part of the battle.”