The Executive’s Path

Description

The executive role is rarely what it appears to be from the outside. The information is better in scope but often worse in honesty. The decisions are more consequential but made with less certainty. The authority is real, but the influence that actually moves people must be earned continuously through conduct rather than conferred by position.

This book addresses the interior experience of genuine executive leadership: the weight of the role in its first months, the reality of how decisions are actually made at this level, the management of organizational politics without the erosion of personal integrity, and the specific cost of the climb that most accounts of executive life leave unexamined.

Drawing on the wisdom of Confucius, Lao Tzu and Zhuangzi, The Executive’s Path is written for the person who has arrived at a significant leadership role and discovered that the capabilities which produced the promotion are not the same capabilities the role primarily requires.

Each chapter closes with ten reflective questions, a practical exercise, and a summary connecting the chapter’s ideas to the path ahead.

Part of The Path series, published by Greenfields Press.

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