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

Mastering Leadership is a must read for any leader that wants to go to the next level. This book connects leadership effectiveness and business results. I found this book to be compelling for both heart and mind. There is deep research and substance to this book at the same time it is full of practical personal/business examples that bring the book to life. This is not your typical feel good leadership book. It will challenge your thinking. It will make you take a really good look at both your inner and outer game, what's driving you, your shadow, your gifts... This book is profound, deep, spiritual and at the same time practical. I love that the authors took time to challenge my thinking at the end of each chapter. The taking stock section contains 5-6 profound questions that helped me gain clarity and insight on my leadership, my life and my work. Mastering Leadership is a must have for any leader's bookshelf. This is one you will find yourself coming back to over and over. I work as a coach/consultant and have long been a student of leadership. I had to set it down several times struck with profound insights about myself and how I show up. I have read some great leadership books, but nothing like this. You won't regret buying this book!!

Mastering Leadership is an important book in an ocean of leadership development literature. It ties together disparate theory work in a way that presents a coherent and actionable pathway forward, like few leadership books have. There are many theories on how to lead, with few offering the significant body of hard data that Anderson and Adams provide in this book. There is a saying in the business arena, that “If it is not measurable, it did not happen.” This book is a great balance between hard data and the art that leading is. It addresses the leadership soul in a data driven manner, while still finding time to incorporate poetry that resonates deeply within us. This book can help the 21st century leader develop themselves to meet the challenges that our world is presenting us. For leaders today, the name of the game is leading from a framework that can handle the complex nature of the challenges we face. The universal framework presented in this book weaves the best thinkers on leadership of our time into a model that can help transform the ways we lead. This book is a challenging read, and so it should be. As a practitioner of leadership development, I believe this book challenges the status quo in our field. It presents a provocative message, and developmental pathways for people to develop into leaders our world needs – a must read.

Found this one of the most insightful books on leadership I have read. The models are well informed and can be applied in practice. Thank you also for the on-line self assessment. Invaluable

This book is not about mastering being a manager or a leader in a business but it is so much more than that. It’s about evolving as a human being. A human being that gets rid of his/her ego and see us all as one. One of the best books I’ve ever read!! The book is factual and evidence based, built on many different types of research you might have heard of or studied in the past. Also, if you are spiritual, regardless of your religious affiliations if any, you will find this book incredibly inspiring.

I highly recomend this book. I found it as an excellent source for continous study. Mastering Leadership: An Integrated Framework for Breakthrough Performance and Extraordinary Business Results You guys (R.Anderson and W.Adams) hit the mark with this treasure that integrates research, valuable theories, deep reflexions and pragmatic applications all together, presented in a very comprehensive and generous way. There is a good information/reserch about what is behind the The Leadership Circle Profile assestment. This is a plus. The “taking stocks” at the end of the chapters are very useful for consciousness and accountability development in leadership art.

I highly recommend this book.

In the mid-70's James MacGregor Burns’ "Transforming Leadership" powerfully advanced the field of leadership development in both theory and practice. Bob Anderson and Bill Adams’ recent addition to the canon "Mastering Leadership" will be similarly transformative to our collective understanding about what is required to create effective leadership at the individual and collective levels. I commend them for their dogged perseverance and years of synthesis, research, and application in the genesis of an elegant methodology. "Mastering Leadership" will have a transformative influence upon all who aspire to an evolved approach to leadership development.

the author gives a good perception in his views of the different types of leadership i would recommend for anyone in supervisory position to read. if you are using for academic purposes, the terms may differ from the UK base theorist

Fantastic overview and tool for development of leadership skills.

This is a book that is going to be a defining milestone for decades. There is not everything there you need to know about leadership, but there if you were to build a basis of you your leadership know-how this book is essential piece without which you are on the wrong tract. Now, the presentation is little too enthusiastic for an European mind - (sorry for the expression, if feel like an american marketing at some points). I am still convinced that the points made are profound and true - just the presentation should be toned down a little to make it more believable. Now it seems that the authors are sounding their own trumpet too much. For example at many places the arguments based on statistical evaluation are geared toward "validity" of the results. However, as the data are from the same dataset collected from the same people - it is to be expected that they are congruent to some extend, so their high correlation factors are more about internal consistence of the tool described than necessarily proving its validity. And yet I thing if an independent study done on a different sample not tainted by many "halo" effects as in the book we would obtain good confirmations as well. So my argument is not with the content, but with little too much self-promoting attitude that made the authors oversee some circularity in their arguments. Thank you Bob

Very interesting book about leadership.

A must read for any serious practitioner of development

Je souhaite que les leaders (leader de votre pratique, de votre organisation, de votre communauté, de votre équipe, de votre clan) lisent ce livre. Un livre à lire sans se presser. Pour pleinement en absorber le contenu et faire sa propre réflexion par rapport à son propre parcours. Comme dirigeant, que tolérez-vous au sein de votre organisation? Vous feriez-vous confiance ? De grandes questions qui méritent qu’on s’y attarde régulièrement, et ce, à perpétuité. Tant que nous avons la capacité de nous remettre en question, le cycle se poursuit, encore et encore. L’environnement, le contexte, changent et se complexifient. Les anciennes stratégies ne suffisent plus. Que faire ? Se mettre au travail est la seule option. Et par travail j’entends, recadrer nos façons de faire. Passer du mode réactif à créatif. Anderson et Adams expliquent ce qu’est le processus d’adaptation de l’adulte, ainsi que les théories des processus de développement individuels et comment, finalement, c’est le leader qui a le dernier mot. En effet, le leader ne peut ignorer son impact sur les autres. N’est-ce pas cela être un leader ? Avoir la capacité de transmettre l’impulsion nécessaire ? C’est le leader qui influence la culture, qui donne la cadence, le ton. Et cela nécessite de s’engager face à son propre développement et créer ce sillon, ce mouvement dans lequel votre équipe vous suivra. Ce livre est avant tout une source de référence pour comprendre l’ABC de l’amélioration de la performance organisationnelle. Certains chapitres portent sur l’outil que Leadership Circle a développé. Cet outil, aussi valable soit-il, peut devenir un piège. Avoir en main des données est une chose, encore faut-il passer à l’action. Notre tendance naturelle étant d’analyser, de comparer et de remettre à plus tard l’essentiel. L’essentiel selon moi est de définir ce que nous voulons accomplir comme équipe et d’engager la conversation de façon honnête et en se faisant confiance que nous allons y arriver. C’est la qualité de la conversation collective qui aura le plus grand impact sur notre efficacité organisationnelle et sur la performance de l’entreprise. Bonne lecture !