Leadership And The Art Of Struggle

About the Book: Leadership and the Art of Struggle Shatters leadership myths to reveal a new understanding of how exceptional leaders grow from adversity The image that effective leaders guide their organizations on perpetually smooth journeys quite simply defies reality. Leadership is often a struggle and yet strong taboos keep us from talking openly and honestly about our struggles for fear of looking weak and seeming to lack confidence. Exceptional leaders embrace struggle as an opportunity for learning, as an art to be mastered. Leadership and the Art of Struggle paints a realistic portrait of how great leaders navigate intense challenges for personal growth and organizational success. Through 150 stories of leadership struggle drawn from nearly One Hundred interviews, as well as from his experiences as an junior executive at Microsoft, a CEO of a public company and an executive coach, Steven Snyder derives mastery strategies for welcoming struggle as an integral part of your leadership journey. To help you implement each of these strategies, he offers a host of unique tools and specific, hands-on practices. Youll learn how to cultivate the best mindset for confronting challenges, explore multiple tactics to deal with struggle and keep your energy high so you can continue to learn and grow. About the Author: Steven Snyder Steven Snyder, Ph.D., founder of Twin Cities-based Snyder Leadership Group, established his organizational consulting firm to provide a resource for organizations and their executives to advance their leadership capabilities and achieve greater success. An innovator in thought leadership, Snyder has developed the breakthrough concepts introduced in Leadership and the Art of Struggle, based on years of leadership studies, intensive research and data derived from extensive interviews with real-world executives from major corporations. His advancements in the practice of leadership also derive from his own experiences as an early leader at Micros