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Fearless:: Leadership Lessons at the Crossroads
WE’VE COME SO FAR, BUT THERE IS STILL SO MUCH MORE WE HAVE TO DO.
There isn’t a textbook, a manual, or a rulebook for leadership. Sure, every organization has a leader, but is leadership unshakable? What is fearless leadership?
Is it the person who steers earnings in a downturn? Or the creator of the strategic vision? How does a fearless leader infuse culture throughout their organization? Are leaders judged by innovation or outcomes? Are they made, born, or shaped by their circumstances?
Today’s leader is all the above — the role is boundless. It is not just one of influencing results, but of growing people, perfecting process, and cultivating mindsets.
Steve Johns is the well-respected CEO of OneCause. In March 2020, he had the formidable responsibility of leading the company and its 300+ employees, and their 10,000+ nonprofit customers through unprecedented change. The fundraising world, like all others, had stopped. We were at a crossroads. Life-changing causes were on the line, and powering missions desperately mattered.
That’s when the journey began.
It started with an update to his team, a promise, and the first words ‘BE SAFE.’ There was no turning back, no shrinking away. It was the moment.
From the Chief Executive Officer who successfully rallied his team (and emerged stronger), this book is a must-read for today’s leaders and tomorrow’s people builders. Leadership is an art. Steve Johns has mastered that art.
After all, there’s no lotus without the mud.
There isn’t a textbook, a manual, or a rulebook for leadership. Sure, every organization has a leader, but is leadership unshakable? What is fearless leadership?
Is it the person who steers earnings in a downturn? Or the creator of the strategic vision? How does a fearless leader infuse culture throughout their organization? Are leaders judged by innovation or outcomes? Are they made, born, or shaped by their circumstances?
Today’s leader is all the above — the role is boundless. It is not just one of influencing results, but of growing people, perfecting process, and cultivating mindsets.
Steve Johns is the well-respected CEO of OneCause. In March 2020, he had the formidable responsibility of leading the company and its 300+ employees, and their 10,000+ nonprofit customers through unprecedented change. The fundraising world, like all others, had stopped. We were at a crossroads. Life-changing causes were on the line, and powering missions desperately mattered.
That’s when the journey began.
It started with an update to his team, a promise, and the first words ‘BE SAFE.’ There was no turning back, no shrinking away. It was the moment.
From the Chief Executive Officer who successfully rallied his team (and emerged stronger), this book is a must-read for today’s leaders and tomorrow’s people builders. Leadership is an art. Steve Johns has mastered that art.
After all, there’s no lotus without the mud.
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April 18, 2023
Fearless is a book that gives you hope in your own professional world and personal. In a time of so much uncertainty, instead of going through the motions of day to day, Steve decided to make a change and adapt that not only benefited the business but also his employees. This is an accomplishment that you don’t hear of too often these days. His Leadership Lessons can be applied to professional and personal life which is something I will personally begin to follow to help myself grow as an individual but also to assist my team in being the best we can be given all of lives curveballs.
A truly excellent book that anyone in a leadership role will benefit from reading!
A truly excellent book that anyone in a leadership role will benefit from reading!
March 27, 2023
As I finish up the final chapters of FEARLESS: LEADERSHIP LESSONS AT THE CROSSROADS, I'm taking a moment to marvel at what we have been through over the past three years. When the COVID pandemic pushed us all into bubbles of safety and security, I'm not sure I believed we would get to this point. Everything was so frightening. And yet, day by day, we put one foot in front of the other, did what we needed to do, and here we are in 2023.
Looking back, I can't say how many times I thought about how thankful I was that I was able to work from home and in safety. I worked for (and still work for) an organization that valued the health and well-being of the staff in a way that went beyond simple words on paper. And, though I'd been a client of author Steve Johns' company, OneCause, for a few years at that point, it's clear the OneCause team was in a similarly caring environment.
FEARLESS is a compassionate and deeply thought-provoking review of weathering one of the most difficult storms in our recent collective history. Steve Johns shares his own thoughts along with emails that he sent to the OneCause team throughout 2020, 2021, and 2022. Each chapter focuses on a theme; Steve introduces the theme, shares emails, and updates, and gives readers some key take-away lessons. A retrospective in some regards, but the messages and lessons Steve shares are no less relevant in 2023 than they were in the preceding years. In fact, they may be more valuable than ever. My book now features bright green Post-it note flags, marking pages and passages that I found significant or particularly helpful for me.
I am truly thankful for this book. It gave me something that I can't quite name and that I didn't consciously know I was missing until I read it on these pages. And now, well, I only have one question left: Steve, how can I get on your weekly email list? :)
Looking back, I can't say how many times I thought about how thankful I was that I was able to work from home and in safety. I worked for (and still work for) an organization that valued the health and well-being of the staff in a way that went beyond simple words on paper. And, though I'd been a client of author Steve Johns' company, OneCause, for a few years at that point, it's clear the OneCause team was in a similarly caring environment.
FEARLESS is a compassionate and deeply thought-provoking review of weathering one of the most difficult storms in our recent collective history. Steve Johns shares his own thoughts along with emails that he sent to the OneCause team throughout 2020, 2021, and 2022. Each chapter focuses on a theme; Steve introduces the theme, shares emails, and updates, and gives readers some key take-away lessons. A retrospective in some regards, but the messages and lessons Steve shares are no less relevant in 2023 than they were in the preceding years. In fact, they may be more valuable than ever. My book now features bright green Post-it note flags, marking pages and passages that I found significant or particularly helpful for me.
I am truly thankful for this book. It gave me something that I can't quite name and that I didn't consciously know I was missing until I read it on these pages. And now, well, I only have one question left: Steve, how can I get on your weekly email list? :)
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