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Throttle Up: How to Accelerate The Impact of 21st Century Leadership
LEADERSHIP CAN BE anything one says it is—that is until a person or group has to do something complex with it. For the most part, leadership development remains an exercise of the abstract ostensibly possessed by the heroic or gifted few and disconnected from the multifaceted real-world challenges of everyday life. Throttle Up represents a departure from the traditional perspective in which leadership resides in the traits or behaviors of individuals in leadership roles. Instead, Throttle Up asserts that leadership in the 21st century is a practice to be learned-proving there is a difference between being a “leader” and “doing” leadership.
The 21st-century world in which we live is filled with ambiguity, turbulence, rapid complex change, information overload, and the yearning of people to find meaning from the work they do. Therefore, leaders must be able to initiate and create an environment where people come to do their best work every day by melding diverse talent and individual abilities into collaborative, interdependent unified action. Most important, those involved in a leadership dynamic must increase their ability to do leadership together because in the 21st-century--LEADERSHIP IS WHAT PEOPLE DO TOGETHER!
However, leaders of organizations are prone to repeat yesterday’s news because they are looking for leadership in the wrong place. Throttle Up explains how and why traditional leadership development initiatives are going nowhere fast.
To accelerate a transition to 21st-century leadership practices, Throttle Up offers seven “how-to” methods to accelerate the impact of leadership training in organizations. These action-oriented 21st-century leadership practices include:
• How to complete a strategic thinking session
• How to initiate and establish a leadership network
• How to create storybooks to accelerate culture shifts
• How to use the four frames to create compelling communications to support a culture shift (Wax-On, Wax-Off)
• What five questions to ask when selecting a 21st-century leadership impact program
• How to apply the LeadSimm® Leadership Impact Simulation Method
• How to create and implement a pull learning education and evaluation strategy designed to assess the training impact on the organization
To bring leadership into the 21st century, Throttle Up presents a model that assures accelerated learning can shift an organization’s effectiveness in ways not found elsewhere.
The 21st-century world in which we live is filled with ambiguity, turbulence, rapid complex change, information overload, and the yearning of people to find meaning from the work they do. Therefore, leaders must be able to initiate and create an environment where people come to do their best work every day by melding diverse talent and individual abilities into collaborative, interdependent unified action. Most important, those involved in a leadership dynamic must increase their ability to do leadership together because in the 21st-century--LEADERSHIP IS WHAT PEOPLE DO TOGETHER!
However, leaders of organizations are prone to repeat yesterday’s news because they are looking for leadership in the wrong place. Throttle Up explains how and why traditional leadership development initiatives are going nowhere fast.
To accelerate a transition to 21st-century leadership practices, Throttle Up offers seven “how-to” methods to accelerate the impact of leadership training in organizations. These action-oriented 21st-century leadership practices include:
• How to complete a strategic thinking session
• How to initiate and establish a leadership network
• How to create storybooks to accelerate culture shifts
• How to use the four frames to create compelling communications to support a culture shift (Wax-On, Wax-Off)
• What five questions to ask when selecting a 21st-century leadership impact program
• How to apply the LeadSimm® Leadership Impact Simulation Method
• How to create and implement a pull learning education and evaluation strategy designed to assess the training impact on the organization
To bring leadership into the 21st century, Throttle Up presents a model that assures accelerated learning can shift an organization’s effectiveness in ways not found elsewhere.
259 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 12, 2019
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November 4, 2019
A WISHING SHELF BOOK REVIEW
4th November 2019
TITLE: Throttle Up: How to Accelerate the Impact Of 21st Century Leadership
AUTHOR: John P. Dentico
Star Rating: 5
‘A well-structured text that looks at ‘leadership’ in a totally different way. Inspiring.’ The Wishing Shelf
REVIEW
In the competitive world we live in, every organization, whether it be Google or a local charity shop, needs effective leadership. Now, if the ‘leader’ of the company happens to be devilishly charismatic and ‘just has a way with people’, all the better. But what happens when a leader is not a ‘natural’ leader? When he or she can’t simply turn on the charm? That’s when a book like this is helpful.
As the author of Throttle Up rightly says in the Foreword, ‘…leadership has continually challenged and puzzled organizational managers and owners’. This text, in many ways, attempts to address this problem. How? By offering the reader a very different, almost novel, approach to leadership. The author of this model is suggesting not to focus so much on developing the inherent ability of a leader to motivate and excite, but to focus on the importance of performance, i.e. what the organization is doing. And, I must say, I thought it to be a stimulating, even inspiring read.
The author looks at many aspects of leadership in this book. Not only is there analysis of other leadership methods – and why they often don’t work – but there is also practical help for anybody who might wish to incorporate this model into the workplace. And this is all wrapped up in a structurally well-organised text. The sensibly thought-out chapters will help the reader to locate information quickly if they ever need to return to the book for a little reminder of how a particular part of the model works.
Regarding writing style, well, to be honest, it’s not an easy read! It is rather complex in parts although the author works hard to keep the reader with him, using metaphors and sub-dividing chapters where necessary. But I think a little knowledge – and education – on organizational structure would help the reader to stay the course.
All in all, this is a welcome, refreshing look at leadership and how important it is for any organization to think ‘Is the way we approach leadership working?’ and not simply throw funds at the problem in the hope it will stick.
This book might prove a wake-up call for many. And, if it is, well, then it’s time for them to wake up!
A ‘Wishing Shelf’ Book Review
www.thewsa.co.uk
4th November 2019
TITLE: Throttle Up: How to Accelerate the Impact Of 21st Century Leadership
AUTHOR: John P. Dentico
Star Rating: 5
‘A well-structured text that looks at ‘leadership’ in a totally different way. Inspiring.’ The Wishing Shelf
REVIEW
In the competitive world we live in, every organization, whether it be Google or a local charity shop, needs effective leadership. Now, if the ‘leader’ of the company happens to be devilishly charismatic and ‘just has a way with people’, all the better. But what happens when a leader is not a ‘natural’ leader? When he or she can’t simply turn on the charm? That’s when a book like this is helpful.
As the author of Throttle Up rightly says in the Foreword, ‘…leadership has continually challenged and puzzled organizational managers and owners’. This text, in many ways, attempts to address this problem. How? By offering the reader a very different, almost novel, approach to leadership. The author of this model is suggesting not to focus so much on developing the inherent ability of a leader to motivate and excite, but to focus on the importance of performance, i.e. what the organization is doing. And, I must say, I thought it to be a stimulating, even inspiring read.
The author looks at many aspects of leadership in this book. Not only is there analysis of other leadership methods – and why they often don’t work – but there is also practical help for anybody who might wish to incorporate this model into the workplace. And this is all wrapped up in a structurally well-organised text. The sensibly thought-out chapters will help the reader to locate information quickly if they ever need to return to the book for a little reminder of how a particular part of the model works.
Regarding writing style, well, to be honest, it’s not an easy read! It is rather complex in parts although the author works hard to keep the reader with him, using metaphors and sub-dividing chapters where necessary. But I think a little knowledge – and education – on organizational structure would help the reader to stay the course.
All in all, this is a welcome, refreshing look at leadership and how important it is for any organization to think ‘Is the way we approach leadership working?’ and not simply throw funds at the problem in the hope it will stick.
This book might prove a wake-up call for many. And, if it is, well, then it’s time for them to wake up!
A ‘Wishing Shelf’ Book Review
www.thewsa.co.uk
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