Mastering Leadership: An Integrated Framework for Breakthrough Performance and Extraordinary Business Results

Structural forces are more powerful than individual commitment.

When we ask leaders what they would do differently looking back, their most frequent response is, “I would have made changes in my executive team more quickly.” They hang on to low-ratio return, high-cost leaders for too long, and it costs them dearly. Having the right people on the leadership team and investing in the Leadership Agenda is high lev

Warren Bennis said, the process of developing extraordinary leadership is the same process as becoming an extraordinary person. To fulfill the Leadership Imperative, we need to rethink how we develop leaders. Our efforts need to be long-term and systemic (not piecemeal and episodic), individual and collective, and integrative of the inner and outer

Second, are you developing effective leadership at all levels within your organization? As a leader, you cannot scale the organization until you understand and perform your role in developing other leaders. When you enter the executive ranks, your job is to develop other leaders—and, to minimize your losses, know when someone cannot be developed in

The Uganda Rural Training and Development (URDT) organization was founded. Mwalimu Musheshe, Ephrem Rutaboa, and Silvana Veltkamp, a small group of dedicated young leaders, decided to do something about the economic and social development needs of Africa. They concluded that most approaches to rural development were failing because they were not ad

Strategy charts the course of how to get from wherever we are to the vision. Vision is the capstone of strategy, a description of the business, as we most want it to exist at some point in the future. Vision is a response to the current reality of the marketplace, but it is not limited by the constraints of that reality. It is strategic because it

“Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.

TAKING STOCK How long has it been since your world was rocked to its core by something you learned? What refusal have you been postponing (Block, 1993)? What's the toll of not living your truth each day? Each moment? When it is all over, what do you want people to say about you and what you contributed? Where do your passions and talents intersect

metrics, a common set of measures, to track operations, opportunities, and improvements, as well as to measure individual and collective leadership effectiveness. How effective are you? How do you know? What is your leadership ROI? How well do leaders communicate, providing constituents with an effective exchange of information?