Mastering Leadership: An Integrated Framework For Breakthrough Performance And Extraordinary Business Results

Is your leadership a competitive advantage, or is it costing you? How do you know?

For most leaders today, complexity is outpacing their personal and collective development. Most leaders arein over their heads, whether they know it or not. Since the most successful organizations over time are the best led, escalating global complexity puts leadership effectiveness at a premium. Mastering Leadership involves developing the effectiveness of leaders—individually and collectively—and turning the leadership into a competitive advantage. This comprehensive roadmap features:

• Breakthrough research connecting increased leadership effectiveness with enhanced business performance
• The first fully integrated Universal Model of Leadership—one that integrates the best theory and research in the fields of Leadership and Organizational Development over the last half century
• An assessment of your own leadership effectiveness, using the Leadership Circle Profile, visibly outlining your leadership progress and performance
• A robust approach to developing your leadership capability at a faster pace
• The four stages in the evolution of leadership—Reactive, Creative, Integral, and Unitive—along with the organizational structures and cultures that develop at each of these stages
• A map of the optimal developmental path to greater leadership effectiveness
• Case stories to facilitate pragmatic application of the Leadership Development System to your particular situation

This timeless, authoritative text takes systemic approach for developing your senior leaders and the leadership system of your organization. It does not recommend quick fixes, but argues that real development requires a strategic, long-term, and integrated approach in order to forge more effective leaders and enhanced business performance. Mastering Leadership presents pathways to bring forth the highest and best use of yourself, your life, and your leadership—helping you more fully and meaningfully deploy all of who you are while achieving a leadership legacy consistent with your highest aspirations.

Robert J. Anderson is the founder, chairman, and CEO of The Leadership Circle and the Full Circle Group. He has been a pacesetter and visionary in the leadership development field for 30 years.

William A. Adams is the CEO and co-founder of The Leadership Circle and the Full Circle Group. His clients include the CEOs and teams of major Fortune 500 corporations (public and private), non-profits, and private equity start-up businesses.