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Impact: Great Leadership Changes Everything
For more than 25 years, organizational psychologist and management consultant Dr. Tim Irwin has worked with thousands of leaders in well-known global companies. He knows most leaders work for recognition and advancement and they want more challenge and responsibility. He’s also found this to be true: Most of us want to make a positive difference through our work and to have our lives count for something more than simply making a living. We want to make an impact.
Yet when we look around our organizations, we don’t see many leaders who have real impact. We see them just managing the daily rat race. Somewhere along the line, many began working for money instead of for meaning, for status instead of for a lasting legacy.
In Impact, Irwin identifies the principles and beliefs that lead to great leadership—ways in which you can grow and thrive and be trusted by others. Learn how to be the kind of leader that motivates others in meaningful work and great accomplishments and what you can do to stay on track so you avoid a path of personal destruction so many leaders go down today.
Accessible, humorous, and engaging, Irwin’s latest book shows you how to live the vision you began your career with and then finish strong for a lasting impact, the hope of every great leader.
Yet when we look around our organizations, we don’t see many leaders who have real impact. We see them just managing the daily rat race. Somewhere along the line, many began working for money instead of for meaning, for status instead of for a lasting legacy.
In Impact, Irwin identifies the principles and beliefs that lead to great leadership—ways in which you can grow and thrive and be trusted by others. Learn how to be the kind of leader that motivates others in meaningful work and great accomplishments and what you can do to stay on track so you avoid a path of personal destruction so many leaders go down today.
Accessible, humorous, and engaging, Irwin’s latest book shows you how to live the vision you began your career with and then finish strong for a lasting impact, the hope of every great leader.
256 pages, Hardcover
First published February 4, 2014
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March 25, 2018
It took me awhile to start this book. I am by no means a fan of leadership books. Must are dry and not entertaining at all. Normally I have to FORCE myself to read. So I procrastinated even opening the book to start. However I really sat down and began reading it on the 21st of March. I am now done and actually really enjoyed this book. It makes you stop and think about your impact on those your guiding and leading. Are you listening to your core and remaining humble or has power taken over how you oversee your employees??? I suggest this book to anyone just becoming a leader or even to those who have been a Supervisor for sometime!!
April 21, 2020
Read for a graduate class. Breaks down ideas about self management to become a leader. Lots of real world examples and written in a way anyone can understand.
April 24, 2014
Are you in leadership? A Mom, a Pastor? A Sunday School teacher? I would whole heartedly suggest that you check out Impact, Great Leadership Changes Everything, by Tim Irwin, PH.D. Do you want to make an Impact on a life, or do want to just live life in the background, never making a difference?
As a mom, I want to make a difference in my children. My children are my world. What better lives to impact than the ones living under my roof? Do I want to build them up, from their core to their outer beings? Or do I want them to just live a boring life. Now more than any other time in this world, our children can make a difference. We have had some faulty leadership in our government, right down to the parental figures we are friends with. Our children are being led by video games, and their drug addicted friends instead of being led by their parents. Part of that is because we as parents are too worried about making ends meet so we are working countless of hours. We are worried about how we look instead of how we are on the inside. Are we empowering our children to work, or be a bum watching the tv and playing the next best game system? How are you helping your children become adults? I know in my home, we are working on incorporating our children into learning work ethics. We expect chores to be completed in a timely manner, rooms are kept clean. We are working on teaching them skills that they can use that will also carry through out their adult lives.
Parents, Teachers, Sunday School teachers, Youth Group leaders... Now is a vital time to go deeper into the lives we are entrusted with. Become a leader. You have to go deeper. We need to help our youth, and those we are entrusted with to figure out what their purpose is and understand their beliefs.
Impact is a wonderful resource and tool that you can use to do the above. You can also go to Tim's website and take a personal assessment. It is very interesting.
I really enjoyed reading Impact. This book is a great tool! I almost didn't take on this review. I am not in leadership elsewhere. However, I have 4 children in my home. This book helped me realize the importance of being a leader in my home. I give this book 5 stars.
As a mom, I want to make a difference in my children. My children are my world. What better lives to impact than the ones living under my roof? Do I want to build them up, from their core to their outer beings? Or do I want them to just live a boring life. Now more than any other time in this world, our children can make a difference. We have had some faulty leadership in our government, right down to the parental figures we are friends with. Our children are being led by video games, and their drug addicted friends instead of being led by their parents. Part of that is because we as parents are too worried about making ends meet so we are working countless of hours. We are worried about how we look instead of how we are on the inside. Are we empowering our children to work, or be a bum watching the tv and playing the next best game system? How are you helping your children become adults? I know in my home, we are working on incorporating our children into learning work ethics. We expect chores to be completed in a timely manner, rooms are kept clean. We are working on teaching them skills that they can use that will also carry through out their adult lives.
Parents, Teachers, Sunday School teachers, Youth Group leaders... Now is a vital time to go deeper into the lives we are entrusted with. Become a leader. You have to go deeper. We need to help our youth, and those we are entrusted with to figure out what their purpose is and understand their beliefs.
Impact is a wonderful resource and tool that you can use to do the above. You can also go to Tim's website and take a personal assessment. It is very interesting.
I really enjoyed reading Impact. This book is a great tool! I almost didn't take on this review. I am not in leadership elsewhere. However, I have 4 children in my home. This book helped me realize the importance of being a leader in my home. I give this book 5 stars.
April 16, 2014
Everyone has their own opinion of what makes a good leader. What gives them staying power? What makes men like Steve Jobs rise to the top while others can’t seem to get ahead? Tim Irwin, PH.D. has a lot of great insights into leadership in Impact: Great Leadership Changes Everything.
I have been a stay at home mom for a few years now but I spent fifteen years in the business world and saw enough to recognize great leadership when I saw it. It’s not common and so it’s easily recognized when someone has “it.” Do you have it? Would you know if you did or didn’t? Irwin provides tools to help you figure it out like the self-awareness quiz at the end of Chapter 3. You can also take this personal self-assessment test.
“We are our own Black Box” on the topic of self awareness really stood out to me. How many people know what their qualities really are and will admit their weaknesses? Only a truly great leader can say “this is where I’m lacking,” recognize it, correct it and turn it into a strength.
While I’m not currently “working,” I use the same principle in my parenting since that is my job right now! It takes a lot of strength of character to be able to do this honestly and it’s the only way to produce results. It is my job to teach my kids work ethic, accountability, honesty and all of the things that will make them successful employees and hopefully leaders someday!
I typically find books like this relating to business dry and boring but Irwin does a great job of including lots of personal stories and examples to keep it interesting and relatable. His content is relevant to today’s business world and he clearly has a lot of experience on the subject.
I also found it to be a very “easy read” which is unusual for a book on business as well. A book someone finishes definitely has a better chance of making a lasting impact!
Impact was insightful, highly interesting and even funny at times; all amazing qualities for a business book!
I have been a stay at home mom for a few years now but I spent fifteen years in the business world and saw enough to recognize great leadership when I saw it. It’s not common and so it’s easily recognized when someone has “it.” Do you have it? Would you know if you did or didn’t? Irwin provides tools to help you figure it out like the self-awareness quiz at the end of Chapter 3. You can also take this personal self-assessment test.
“We are our own Black Box” on the topic of self awareness really stood out to me. How many people know what their qualities really are and will admit their weaknesses? Only a truly great leader can say “this is where I’m lacking,” recognize it, correct it and turn it into a strength.
While I’m not currently “working,” I use the same principle in my parenting since that is my job right now! It takes a lot of strength of character to be able to do this honestly and it’s the only way to produce results. It is my job to teach my kids work ethic, accountability, honesty and all of the things that will make them successful employees and hopefully leaders someday!
I typically find books like this relating to business dry and boring but Irwin does a great job of including lots of personal stories and examples to keep it interesting and relatable. His content is relevant to today’s business world and he clearly has a lot of experience on the subject.
I also found it to be a very “easy read” which is unusual for a book on business as well. A book someone finishes definitely has a better chance of making a lasting impact!
Impact was insightful, highly interesting and even funny at times; all amazing qualities for a business book!
March 25, 2014
Impact is a great book for people wanting to become a great leader. Occasionally being a leader is difficult in sense that you are being tested to see if you can withstand the power that comes with leadership. Therefore, not every individual can take a role of a leader because of how he/she see the world, react to others and their self-image cannot survive the spotlight. However, with the techniques in the book a person can take steps closer to become a leader that can influence others.
April 4, 2014
"LEAD FROM WITHIN"
he even has, at the end of each chapter, some questions for self-reflection...good stuff
he even has, at the end of each chapter, some questions for self-reflection...good stuff
May 6, 2015
Not much new or profound here. If you've been reading business literature for the past 20 or 30 years, you've already heard the essence of what Irwin is saying.
February 22, 2016
A good read to help to try to understand yourself and others, and how to lead., but at times it was a bit repetitive.
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