Shop - YOUR LEADERSHIP MOMENT : Democratizing Leadership In An Age Of Authoritarianism

The author’s quest to democratize leadership has taken him around the world–from the White House and corporate boardrooms to the foothills of the Himalayas. Through poignant stories of both success and failure, Your Leadership Moment teaches what’s possible when people discover the capacity and courage to lead regardless of identity, history, or access to power and financial capital.
 
In this book, you will discover what a Leadership Moment is, the key concepts of Adaptive Leadership, how to stop perfectly solving the wrong problems and start creatively solving the right problems, and how to make real, positive change.
 
Next level of Adaptive Leadership. Your Leadership Moment draws on the extensive personal research, travel, conversations, and reflections of author Eric Martin, a prominent leadership expert.
 
His quest to ‘democratize leadership’ has taken him around the world―from the White House to the foothills of the Himalayas. Through stories of success and failure, Martin teaches what’s possible when people discover the capacity and courage to lead regardless of identity, history, or access to power and financial capital.
 
Be an authentic leader who changes the world. Your Leadership Moment is an unforgettable account of the democratizing leadership of three ordinary people leading extraordinary change. It’s an exciting expansion of Adaptive Leadership–an unconventional and provocative leadership practice developed at Harvard University–that can help anyone learn to lead. It provides practical tools, techniques, and inspiration to discover and leverage your own leadership moments in the service of creating a more beautiful world.
 
Your Leadership Moment empowers you to:
● Understand a Leadership Moment and key concepts of Adaptive Leadership
● Stop solving the wrong problems and start solving the right problems
● Think politically and mobilize others to make real, positive change
● Stop getting in your own way
 
If you liked The Practice of Adaptive Leadership, Leadership on the Line, or An Everyone Culture, you’ll love Your Leadership Moment.
 
In a nutshell, The Leadership Moment provides practical tools, techniques and inspiration for those of us who have yet to discover our own leadership potential. It brings the framework of adaptive leadership from Harvard to a worldwide scale over the past 15 years.
 
It’s for real people who seek to create consequential, meaningful change despite having little to no authority or power. It combines personal and real-world anecdotes with a conceptual analysis of leadership accessible to a broad public.
 
Ultimately, it seeks to democratize and spread the practice of leadership to all types of people: people who have the capacity and courage to lead change regardless of identity, history, or access to power or financial capital; people who are tired of elites, suspicious of institutions and labels and–critically–better positioned than their supposed “leaders” to leverage their voice and influence in their own communities.
 
By discovering their own capacity for freedom, they can make a better choice not to give over their power to authoritarian “leaders” who are destroying democracy.
 
Author and leadership expert Eric Martin has brought leadership development to the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in 146 countries. Eric’s work draws on Adaptive Leadership, an unconventional and somewhat provocative leadership practice developed at Harvard by Drs. Ron Heifetz and Marty Linsky and by Alexander Grashow, with whom he has mentored and worked. Your Leadership Moment teaches Martin’s expansion on Adaptive Leadership in a way everyone can understand.
 
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About the Author :
 
Eric Martin, a Detroit native turned prominent leadership expert, specializes in leadership development and systems change. Eric’s work has been used to tackle challenges to transition to a low-carbon economy, improve health equity and access, and evolve the role of advanced technologies in our daily lives.
 
Over the past decade, he has brought leadership development to the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in 146 countries. Eric’s work draws on Adaptive Leadership, an unconventional and somewhat provocative leadership practice developed at Harvard by faculty Drs. Ron Heifetz and Marty Linsky and by Alexander Grashow, with whom he has mentored and worked.
 
Eric has served in an advisor/speaker/leadership trainer role at: Acumen, Rockefeller Foundation, Google, Microsoft, Verizon, US Business Council for Sustainable Development, White House Presidential Personnel Office, United Nations Innovation Network, World Bank, Cornell University, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, The Sustainability Consortium, Democracy Fund, National Academy for Science Engineering & Medicine, Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, National Association for County and City Health Officials (NACCHO), Forum for the Future, LEAD India, Patagonia, USAID and The Aspen Institute. Previously, he served in various roles at The Synergos Institute, a Rockefeller-affiliated international development organization.
 
Eric holds an MS in Organizational Change Management and BS in Systems Analysis and Operations Research. Eric’s work has been published in such places as: Fast Company, Stanford Social Innovation Review, and Environmental Leader.