Leadership is Dead
How Influence is Reviving It
By: Jeremie Kubicek
Published: May 3, 2011
Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
ISBN-10: 1451612141
ISBN-13: 978-1451612141
Publisher: Howard Books
"In my view, leadership as we have known it is dead because far too many leaders have abused their positions and lost their moral bearings. Traditional leadership principles, and the traditional training of those principles, apparently do not work in the modern world", writes President and CEO of Giant Impact and a founding partner in the GiANT Companies, Jeremie Kubicek, in his insightful and groundbreaking book Leadership is Dead: How Influence is Reviving It. The author describes a new form of leadership that applies influence and well meaning power to contribute to the greater good of all people.
Jeremie Kubicek turns the traditional view of leadership upside down, and offers a fresh approach to the concept of leadership through influence and trust. While the author recognizes that influence is about power, he points out that power can be used to enhance the lives of those around the new style of leader. Jeremie Kubinek shares the principles for removing the constraints of traditional leadership and replacing it with the more flexible, trust based, and credibility derived influence. To transform the conventional thinking surrounding the outdated and ineffective leadership model, to a new and more effective one, the author changes the focus from the leader to those who are influenced by leadership.
Jeremie Kubicek (photo left) brings a refreshing creativity to the very concept of leadership. Instead of the leader focusing on the ineffective and ultimately self defeating idea of self-preservation, the author points to breaking down walls and barriers to other people. This advice appears counter-intuitive on the surface, but as Jeremie Kubicek writes, these barriers and misguided self-preservation actually lowers a leader's real influence. Instead of the usual self-centered approach to leadership, the author considers personal generosity to others as more influential in both the short and ling terms. To achieve greater influence and with it more usable power to leverage for the benefit of others, the author share Seven Action Steps:
* Give trust to become trustworthy
* Become credible, and not just smart
* Be intentional in your influence
* Break through your walls of self-preservation
* Pursue relationships before opportunity
* Give yourself away
* Become significant in your impact
For me, the power of the book is how Jeremie Kubicek presents both the theoretical framework for establishing a new type of influential leader, and the practical steps to become an influencer. The author takes the bold step of supplanting the very concept of leadership, as it's commonly understood, and replacing it with an influence based model that is more effective in every way. Through an emphasis on building trusting relationships with others, developing mutually beneficial partnerships, and being intentional with influence, the true leader will emerge. By helping and enhancing the lives of others, a true influencer will achieve much more for everyone. The ending of the older ego supporting leadership is the first step in that transformation to deeper trust, stronger partnerships, and more effective and beneficial harnessing of power.
I highly recommend the must read and eye opening book Leadership is Dead: How Influence is Reviving It by Jeremie Kubicek, to anyone seeking a revolutionary new approach to the very essence of influence, power, and truly effective leadership. This book will help current and potential leaders shed the constraints imposed by the traditional and failed leadership ideas.
Read the forward thinking and actionable book Leadership is Dead: How Influence is Reviving It by Jeremie Kubicek, and discover a new and unique approach to what makes a true leader. Traditional leadership may be dead, but influenced based leadership, as outlined in this book, is poised to replace it.
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