The Leap to Leader: How Ambitious Managers Make the Jump to Leadership

The Leap to Leader is a playbook for making the biggest jump of your career, offering insights and strategies from successful leaders and mentors to build a loyal following, move up quickly, and make the mindset shifts required to lead others effectively.

Format: Hardback
Length: 240 pages
Publication date: 11 July 2023
Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press

The gap between managers and leaders is widening as the skills required to be an effective leader grow in number and complexity. However, you are ambitious and want to cross that chasm. Your organization needs you to cross it in order to join its bench of stars who will lead with empathy and humanity and ground the organization's strategies in a meaningful, mission-driven, and purposeful way.

The Leap to Leader is your trusted playbook for making the biggest jump of your career. You'll learn from more than a hundred successful leaders who share their powerful insights and compelling stories of how to make the leap, along with practical strategies and tactics for building a loyal following, moving up quickly to broaden your impact, and making the subtle but crucial mindset shifts that are required to lead others effectively.

As senior managing director at the ExCo Group, Adam Bryant has worked directly with hundreds of fast-rising executives, sharing the leadership development frameworks, tools, and approaches that are at the heart of this book. He draws on the collective wisdom of the one hundred mentors at his firm—all former CEOs or global business leaders—who know what it takes to make the leap to leader. As the creator of the iconic Corner Office column in the New York Times, Bryant has spoken with more than a thousand leaders over the years about the challenges and nuances of leadership.

The leap to leader doesn't have to be a leap of faith. If you are ready to make the jump, start here.

Weight: 508g
Dimension: 165 x 241 x 26 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781647824891