Leaders Leap - Transforming Your Company at the Speed of Disruption

Leaders Leap goes beyond the standard business playbook and teaches you the secrets to creating the bolder, faster, and essential transformation needed to avoid becoming irrelevant in an era of profound and accelerating change.

​Renowned thought leader on business strategy and innovation Steve Dennis argues that most business transformations are doomed to fail due to two fundamental reasons: their leaders don't aim high enough, delivering mostly incremental changes rather than something truly remarkable, and they move far too slowly to keep up with the pace of disruption. This gap between what is required in a world of seismic shifts in technology and customer requirements and what is typically delivered risks putting many organizations on the road to extinction.

Solid strategy, team building, and process planning are essential--and there are plenty of books out there to show you how to improve them all--but these elements are not enough on their own to ensure success. During a 40-year career where he ascended to the senior leadership roles at two Fortune 500 companies, followed by becoming an in-demand strategic advisor and keynote speaker, Dennis observed C-suite executives underestimate the scope, magnitude, and speed of change needed to survive, much less thrive. In Leaders Leap, he makes the case for why a complete metamorphosis of leadership mindset is essential to prevent organizations from becoming irrelevant and explores seven profound "mind leaps" leaders need to make now to transform at the speed of disruption.

This book takes leaders on a courageous journey of self-reflection, personal accountability, and growth, exposing the ways in which our ego defects, blind spots, confirmation bias, and defense mechanisms get in the way of the progress we need to make:

How the accelerating pace of disruption is making old strategic frameworks useless and why we need to think bigger, act more boldly, and move much faster.
How the executive ego prevents us from seeing this new reality and can limit our acceptance of new strategies for change.
How fear and pride constrain vision and lead to timid transformation programs that are virtually guaranteed to fail.
Why decades of leadership experience can undermine the ability to let go of outdated ideas to think and act more boldly.
With illuminating case studies and hard-earned personal wisdom, Dennis helps you create important strategic and mental shifts to find humility, sharpen your customer focus, amplify your brand's wow factor, and truly innovate at the speed of disruption. If you want your organization to make the leap from imperiled to thriving, Leaders Leap provides an inspiring call to action and the catalyzing ideas to guide you to a more remarkable and sustainable future.

List of contents

Introduction: Mind the Gap

PART 1: Remarkable or Irrelevant?

Chapter 1: Shift Happens
Chapter 2: The Curse of the Timid Transformation

PART 2: The Seven Leadership Mind Leaps

Chapter 3: Mind Leap 1: Crush Your Ego
Chapter 4: Mind Leap 2: Wake Up
Chapter 5: Mind Leap 3: Special, Not Big
Chapter 6: Mind Leap 4:
Start with Wow
Chapter 7: Mind Leap 5: Think Radically
Chapter 8: Mind Leap 6: Safe Is Risky
Chapter 9: Mind Leap 7: Faster, Faster, Go, Go, Go!

PART 3: Leaders Leap

Chapter 10: The Big Leap

Acknowledgements
Notes
Selected Bibliography and Additional Reading
About the Author
Also by Steve Dennis

About the author

Steve Dennis is a
strategy and innovation consultant, keynote speaker, podcast host, and
bestselling author of Remarkable Retail. He has been named
a top global retail influencer by multiple organizations, and his thoughts on
the future of shopping are regularly shared in his role as a Forbes
Senior Contributor, as well as through other media, including CNN, The Wall
Street Journal, and Bloomberg. As a sought-out keynote speaker,
Steve has delivered talks on six continents, sharing his unique perspective on
what it takes to reignite customer growth in a world of constant change and
shifting consumer preferences. Steve is the President of SageBerry Consulting
and a former SVP at the Neiman Marcus Group. He serves on multiple for profit
and non-profit boards. Steve holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School and
a BA in Economics from Tufts University. He lives in Dallas, Texas.

Summary

Leaders Leap goes beyond the standard business playbook and teaches you the secrets to creating the bolder, faster, and essential transformation needed to avoid becoming irrelevant in an era of profound and accelerating change. 

Renowned thought leader on business strategy and innovation Steve Dennis argues that most business transformations are doomed to fail due to two fundamental reasons: their leaders don’t aim high enough, delivering mostly incremental changes rather than something truly remarkable, and they move far too slowly to keep up with the pace of disruption. This gap between what is required in a world of seismic shifts in technology and customer requirements and what is typically delivered risks putting many organizations on the road to extinction. 

Solid strategy, team building, and process planning are essential—and there are plenty of books out there to show you how to improve them all—but these elements are not enough on their own to ensure success. During a 40-year career where he ascended to the senior leadership roles at two Fortune 500 companies, followed by becoming an in-demand strategic advisor and keynote speaker, Dennis observed C-suite executives underestimate the scope, magnitude, and speed of change needed to survive, much less thrive. In Leaders Leap, he makes the case for why a complete metamorphosis of leadership mindset is essential to prevent organizations from becoming irrelevant and explores seven profound “mind leaps” leaders need to make now to transform at the speed of disruption. 

This book takes leaders on a courageous journey of self-reflection, personal accountability, and growth, exposing the ways in which our ego defects, blind spots, confirmation bias, and defense mechanisms get in the way of the progress we need to make:

• How the accelerating pace of disruption is making old strategic frameworks useless and why we need to think bigger, act more boldly, and move much faster.
• How the executive ego prevents us from seeing this new reality and can limit our acceptance of new strategies for change.
• How fear and pride constrain vision and lead to timid transformation programs that are virtually guaranteed to fail.
• Why decades of leadership experience can undermine the ability to let go of outdated ideas to think and act more boldly.

With illuminating case studies and hard-earned personal wisdom, Dennis helps you create important strategic and mental shifts to find humility, sharpen your customer focus, amplify your brand’s wow factor, and truly innovate at the speed of disruption. If you want your organization to make the leap from imperiled to thriving, Leaders Leap provides an inspiring call to action and the catalyzing ideas to guide you to a more remarkable and sustainable future.

Foreword

• Media Campaign: Targeting trade publications, select national media, and outlets in the
  self-help and business space, with a special emphasis on podcasts and outlets
  that have featured the author in the past—including Forbes, Bloomberg/BusinessWeek,
  CNBC, CNN, Fortune, Harvard Business Review, USA Today and
  The Wall Street Journal.
• Website: Will work with the author to build a dedicated landing page for the book
  at StevenPDennis.com, including a pre-order incentive/bonus
  offer.
• Email: Dedicated e-blasts to the author’s 16.5k subscribers.
• Podcast: Book mentions in all new episodes of Remarkable Retail, which gets 1k+ downloads per episode.
• Social Media: Three-month pre-order campaign targeting the author’s 58k+ followers.
• Personal Network:
• Companies/Brands:
  In
  his 30+ years as a strategic advisor, Steve has worked with dozens of retail,
  luxury, technology, and social-impact brands, and will reach out for potential
  marketing partnerships, promotions, and bulk purchases.
• Influencers: As a leading global retail influencer,
  consultant, keynote speaker, and podcast host, Steve has amassed a loyal
  following in his field and built relationships with other bestselling authors,
  influencers, and thought leaders—including Seth Godin, Scott Galloway, Brian
  Solis, Hubert Joly, Chris Brogan, and Mitch Joel.
• Street Team: Steve will offer a select number of
  his most enthusiastic followers an early digital copy of the book in exchange
  for help spreading the word on social media and posting 5-star reviews the week
  of on-sale.
• Promotions: One-month Goodreads giveaway and
  3-month digital ARC listing on Edelweiss.
• Speaking Events: An accomplished
  speaker adept at giving keynotes and workshops for audiences around the world,
  Steve will pursue new speaking opportunities outside of the retail circuit and
  build in bulk purchases wherever possible.

Product details

• Authors: Steve Dennis
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 22.03.2024, delayed
• EAN: 9781637560297
• ISBN: 978-1-63756-029-7
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Management; SELF-HELP / Personal Growth / Success, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Decision-Making & Problem Solving, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Skills, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Consulting, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Motivational, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Personal Success, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Business Development