Lead Boldly: How to Coach Others to Greatness

Master transformation coach Hugh Blane shares what it takes to launch yourself and others to the next level in business and life. Lead Boldly has the potential to transform leadership and the results leaders achieve in unprecedented ways. Specifically, this book makes the case that there is vast level of untapped potential in every nook and cranny of our personal and professional lives. Many leaders have employees on their teams or in their organizations who have great potential but who don't perform at their peak abilities. These leaders often have great potential for success and satisfaction in life but have not found a way to unlock those capabilities.

For successful leaders, there was likely one person in their life who helped them unlock a potential for greatness that they never thought possible, and converting potential into performance requires us to challenge long-held assumptions about performance, results, motivation, desire, discipline, and metrics of success--both professionally and personally. Whatever domain in which a leader lives and works, elevated performance requires an authentic and compelling articulation of values, beliefs, and goals that are not theoretical or intellectual, but rather are behaviorally explicit. Elevated performance cannot be achieved in isolation. Our greatest results and biggest impact on others may be accomplished only in relationship with other like-minded collaborators, coaches, mentors, and advisors who help raise both thinking and performance.

When you read Lead Boldly, if you internalize its content and context and implement its insights with courage, humility, and discipline, you will coach yourself and others to win at work and succeed in life. If you aspire to achieve greatness for yourself, as well as enable greatness in others, the process that follows will challenge you, encourage you, mystify you, and, ultimately, catapult you to the achievement of your highest aspirations.