Leadership Rising: Raise your Awareness, Raise your Leadership, Raise your Life

by John F. Antal

Written by a proven leader and leadership expert, this book is an invaluable guide to anyone wanting to improve their leadership skills. It will empower you to raise your leadership awareness and help you on your journey to become a winning leader. Concise, focused chapters and an interactive format mean even the most time-strapped can benefit from John Antal's decades of experience.

If you are an emerging leader, this book will provide you with a mind-map and internal compass to maintain a bearing during your leadership journey. This mind-map will outline the contours of the leadership topography; the compass you create in your heart and your mind will provide direction; and your purpose will generate a destination.

If you are an experienced leader, this book is also for you. You will find in it reinforcement, confirmation, and a series of knowledge points to add to your existing cognitive map and compass and to help you develop other leaders at every level of skill and awareness.

Genres: Leadership

192 pages, Paperback

Published July 29, 2021

Reviews

[Megan Farve · Rating 2 out of 5]

There are some good pieces of this book that you can use to evaluate yourself as a leader. For instance, the chapters on creating a mind map and creating your own definition of leadership are wonderful in helping you understand yourself as a leader. Yet while these exercises are helpful, the book may not be for everyone.

If you’re prior military or a fan of history, this book will be easy for you to follow and enjoy as Antal is prior military and a historian. You might also get more out of this book if you’re new to the leadership game and need help on finding your path. However, for those of you who enjoy a flow to your sentences (not choppy statements) and the presentation of leaders from the modern day workforce then you may not like this book.

Honestly, the main issue I had with Leadership Rising was it’s disturbing lack of women mentioned in leadership roles. While leaders such as Marcus Aurelius and Benjamin Franklin got multiple references throughout the book, only a few women were noted at all and none of them for their leadership prowess. Instead, the few women mentioned were for their empathy. If you are trying to inspire the leaders of tomorrow, shouldn’t you make sure they can see themselves represented in the leaders of today?

[Beverly Thompson · Rating 5 out of 5]

On Wed., Feb 9, 2022 at 10:19 PM wrote:
Leadership Rising is an extraordinary story that can help you raise your awareness of leadership. By raising your leadership awareness you can become more effective, engaging, and inspiring. The author explains how to learn who you truly are, how to visualize leadership, and how to focus your leadership. He explains that we all have superpowers we can unleash to empower others. Good leadership is hard, but if you care about the people you lead the results are imperative. It's all about knowing the ingredients to leadership ... and about rising to the challenges in life to benefit all. Leadership is the most valuable lesson you will learn in your life and you won't learn it without study. What you put in is what you get out. This engaging book is for everyone, whether you are an emerging leader or a practiced expert, young or old, man or woman. You should read Leadership Rising and give it to anyone you know who wants to raise their leadership and raise their life.