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The Leading Edge
Leadership is within everyone's reach, everyone's ability and everyone's power. It's time to step up, and Holly Ransom will show you how.
What does it mean to 'be a leader'?
What does true leadership look like in the 2020s, when we're facing complexity and challenges in every direction - from climate disaster to political division, and inequality to consumer mistrust?
And how can we be part of the solution, while crafting a meaningful and satisfying career?
The answers aren't simple, but Holly Ransom is closer to finding them than most. Barely into her thirties, since chairing the G20 Youth Summit in 2014, Holly has been working with and learning from the heads of countries, companies and charities to help them disrupt what they do and change the world for the better.
In her fearless and widely-researched manifesto, this innovative young thinker shows how it is within everyone's reach, everyone's ability and everyone's power to be an effective leader - in business and beyond.
Through three principles - mindset, method and mastery - you'll discover how to first lead yourself, then others. And you'll benefit from the wisdom of the luminaries Holly has interviewed, from Susan Cain and Condoleezza Rice to Barack Obama and Malcolm Gladwell.
This is the path to the leading edge - and becoming the leader the world needs you to be.
What does it mean to 'be a leader'?
What does true leadership look like in the 2020s, when we're facing complexity and challenges in every direction - from climate disaster to political division, and inequality to consumer mistrust?
And how can we be part of the solution, while crafting a meaningful and satisfying career?
The answers aren't simple, but Holly Ransom is closer to finding them than most. Barely into her thirties, since chairing the G20 Youth Summit in 2014, Holly has been working with and learning from the heads of countries, companies and charities to help them disrupt what they do and change the world for the better.
In her fearless and widely-researched manifesto, this innovative young thinker shows how it is within everyone's reach, everyone's ability and everyone's power to be an effective leader - in business and beyond.
Through three principles - mindset, method and mastery - you'll discover how to first lead yourself, then others. And you'll benefit from the wisdom of the luminaries Holly has interviewed, from Susan Cain and Condoleezza Rice to Barack Obama and Malcolm Gladwell.
This is the path to the leading edge - and becoming the leader the world needs you to be.
400 pages, Paperback
Published July 21, 2021
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About the author
Holly Ransom
2 books16 followersHolly Ransom is a globally renowned content curator, powerful speaker, and master questioner with the belief that if you walk past it, you tell the world it’s okay.
Named one of Australia’s 100 Most Influential Women by the Australian Financial Review, she has delivered a Peace Charter to the Dalai Lama, was Sir Richard Branson’s nominee for Wired Magazine’s ‘Smart List’ of Future
Game Changers to watch and was awarded the US Embassy’s Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Leadership Excellence in 2019. Roosevelt Award for Leadership Excellence in 2019.
Having interviewed the likes of Barack Obama, Richard Branson, Billie Jean-King, and Condoleezza Rice. Holly fights complexity with curiosity, apathy with empowerment, and fear with fact.
As a Fulbright scholar and Harvard Kennedy School Class of ’21 fellow, Holly is a recipient of the prestigious Anne Wexler Public Policy Scholarship, allowing her to action social and economic inclusion by connecting people
with the decisions that affect their lives.
Soon to release her book The Leading Edge, Holly helps people harness their own potential to lead by asking better questions, thinking beyond biased answers, and building collective momentum for change. The Leading Edge, Holly brings the real-world leadership lessons of so many diverse thinkers and pioneers she’s met to the fore.
Holly was identified early as a dynamic thought leader, asked to Co-Chair the G20 Youth Summit in 2014, the United Nations Coalition of Young Women Entrepreneurs in 2016, and becoming the youngest Director ever to be appointed to an Australian Football Club.
Holly’s podcast ‘Coffee Pods’ was named in the top ten business podcasts to listen to by the Sydney Morning Herald in 2018, and Holly has been recognized as a LinkedIn Influencer and a credible content producer by the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Herself an accomplished company director, Holly has compressed a power-packed career into a decade, spanning corporate, non-profit, and public sectors. As founder and CEO of consulting firm Emergent, Holly has led real-world results with clients such as P&G, Microsoft, Virgin, Cisco and KPMG.
Named one of Australia’s 100 Most Influential Women by the Australian Financial Review, she has delivered a Peace Charter to the Dalai Lama, was Sir Richard Branson’s nominee for Wired Magazine’s ‘Smart List’ of Future
Game Changers to watch and was awarded the US Embassy’s Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Leadership Excellence in 2019. Roosevelt Award for Leadership Excellence in 2019.
Having interviewed the likes of Barack Obama, Richard Branson, Billie Jean-King, and Condoleezza Rice. Holly fights complexity with curiosity, apathy with empowerment, and fear with fact.
As a Fulbright scholar and Harvard Kennedy School Class of ’21 fellow, Holly is a recipient of the prestigious Anne Wexler Public Policy Scholarship, allowing her to action social and economic inclusion by connecting people
with the decisions that affect their lives.
Soon to release her book The Leading Edge, Holly helps people harness their own potential to lead by asking better questions, thinking beyond biased answers, and building collective momentum for change. The Leading Edge, Holly brings the real-world leadership lessons of so many diverse thinkers and pioneers she’s met to the fore.
Holly was identified early as a dynamic thought leader, asked to Co-Chair the G20 Youth Summit in 2014, the United Nations Coalition of Young Women Entrepreneurs in 2016, and becoming the youngest Director ever to be appointed to an Australian Football Club.
Holly’s podcast ‘Coffee Pods’ was named in the top ten business podcasts to listen to by the Sydney Morning Herald in 2018, and Holly has been recognized as a LinkedIn Influencer and a credible content producer by the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
Herself an accomplished company director, Holly has compressed a power-packed career into a decade, spanning corporate, non-profit, and public sectors. As founder and CEO of consulting firm Emergent, Holly has led real-world results with clients such as P&G, Microsoft, Virgin, Cisco and KPMG.
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July 27, 2021
This book is a must-read for EVERYONE who wants to level up! It not only gives diverse real-life examples of leadership and clear, actionable steps to follow, it is also chock-full of hope and inspiration for those of us who believe it is possible to create a better future for generations to come. I would recommend this book even to people who are not in a leadership role as there is so much gold on what it means to have a meaningful career and on how to "lead yourself". Thank you Holly for sharing your phenomenal incites!
July 28, 2021
While I am an unashamed Holly Ransom fan girl watching her as a speaker, facilitator, MC and all-around good human being, she continues to raise the bar with her book. She's got an exceptional network of leaders whose stories she captures and shares with her readers. She shines a light on the hundreds of definitions and actions and mindsets and behaviours of what a leader does and is. The stories are relevant and applicable. I appreciate the fun chapter titles and organisation of the book enticing me to skip around and read ones that resonate (in the end, they all are worthwhile). Consider it like a TEDx event in the palms of your hand!
July 31, 2024
I have had the pleasure of listening to Holly speak at keynote a few years ago. She is switched on and very impressive.
This book is good and well worth a read, just not excellent. She is very well read, and draws from a lot of the classic concepts like 7 Habits and Good to Great etc. The problem with this is it feels like a collection of other people's concepts rather than her own.
This is one of those, mile-wide but inch-deep type books. Find some concepts that you like and then perhaps deep dive into them more with the original authors.
This book is good and well worth a read, just not excellent. She is very well read, and draws from a lot of the classic concepts like 7 Habits and Good to Great etc. The problem with this is it feels like a collection of other people's concepts rather than her own.
This is one of those, mile-wide but inch-deep type books. Find some concepts that you like and then perhaps deep dive into them more with the original authors.
February 14, 2022
This book is a must read business book. It covers everything you need to thrive in business. Key learnings I took out of it include:
- manage your energy not time and plan activities around your natural energy peaks or dips
- get comfortable with being uncomfortable. Identify your mental blocks and push through them to expand.
- anchor on a collective purpose. With an overarching why that is universal and defensible
- manage your energy not time and plan activities around your natural energy peaks or dips
- get comfortable with being uncomfortable. Identify your mental blocks and push through them to expand.
- anchor on a collective purpose. With an overarching why that is universal and defensible
December 4, 2021
Brilliant. Every sentence is precious.
About 6 years ago, at 3am under my covers, I read an AFR article on Holly's Ironman training. I thought, who is this woman? She's unreal. And it's true. I admire Holly so much and see only greatness ahead of her.
About 6 years ago, at 3am under my covers, I read an AFR article on Holly's Ironman training. I thought, who is this woman? She's unreal. And it's true. I admire Holly so much and see only greatness ahead of her.
July 19, 2021
I love the inspiring array of diverse leaders featured in this book, with actionable and accessible leadership lessons. A really good read!
August 14, 2023
What made this book so special to me was the little stories used to illustrate leadership concepts. Specialising in leadership development, I have come across these concepts before, but with less modern and less Australian focused examples. Clearly a newer book, there were references of COVID throughout. Whilst not revolutionary, I thoroughly enjoyed every page and will be recommending this book to my coachees as an easy introductory read to leadership principles and practices.
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August 22, 2021Do you like cake? Do you like self-improvement? The Leading Edge provides the ultimate recipe for modern leadership. Holly makes me feel like I immediately need to buy a small black book, write down the leadership ingredients and cook myself my own leadership legacy cake. Then give this cake to others to taste the love and effort that's gone into creating it. For ultimately, Holly reveals, it's about serving my leadership cake for others to enjoy - not saving it for myself. This is a must read for anyone who believes in the potential of people and the world we live in.
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