Gregory H Garrison

LEAD! - Book 1

Finding Your Leadership Identity

LEAD! - Book 2

Developing Your Leadership Style

Why LEAD!?

LEAD! characterizes ways of working that nurture the spirit, reinforce a culture of integrity and trust, encourage authenticity and confidence, and evoke passion and enthusiasm​.

LEAD! constructs a comprehensive framework for developing exemplary leadership character and skills.

LEAD! characterizes ways of working that nurture the spirit, reinforce a culture of integrity and trust, encourage authenticity and confidence, and evoke passion and enthusiasm​.

LEAD! constructs a comprehensive framework for developing exemplary leadership character and skills.

LEAD! characterizes ways of working that nurture the spirit, reinforce a culture of integrity and trust, encourage authenticity and confidence, and evoke passion and enthusiasm​.

LEAD! constructs a comprehensive framework for developing exemplary leadership character and skills.

LEAD! - Book 1

LEAD! - Book 1 Finding Your Leadership Identity

LEAD! Book 1: Finding Your Leadership Identity is a foundational guide and blue-print to discovering your unique leadership character and personal approach to leading people.

It provides an anthology of the greatest leadership and management thinking, surveying the most important leadership models plus an array of authoritative psychological and psychometric tools, and synthesizes them into 20 Pillars of Leadership Character that helps readers build their own unique, intrinsic leadership identity.

As a concise overlay to management MBA programs, executive education, and corporate training, LEAD! provides ascendant middle managers, functional managers, management consultants, students, trainers, and mentors a solid foundation to construct their unique leadership brand.

LEAD! - Book 2

LEAD! - Book 2 Developing Your Leadership Style

LEAD! Book 2: is a transformative guide to developing your leadership style. LEAD! Book 1 helped readers find their personal leadership foundation. Book 2 completes the curriculum with techniques, methodologies, and case studies to unlock your potential and evolve that leadership identity into an effective management practice.

LEAD! leverages a wealth of experience, providing global wisdom and personalized insights, unleashing power through practical lessons and case studies. It transcends theory, exploring proven approaches to creativity and innovation, team building, organization design, and managing outsourced and remote teams. It gives readers methods, processes, and tools to shape leadership practices that work in the real world.

LEAD! Book 2 provides guidance for ascendant managers, management consultants, students, trainers, and mentors to navigate leadership challenges in an authentic and fulfilling way. Empower yourself with these strategies and tools to transform your leadership skills from ordinary to extraordinary!

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About the author

Greg Garrison & LEAD!

Greg is a new media, business, and technology leader with 35 years as a CTO/CIO and Director of 3 Innovation Labs. Specializing in Digital Transformation, IT Strategy, and Change. A technologist, futurist, innovator, TV media analyst, consultant and speaker.

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PRAISE FOR

Gregory H. Garrison and LEAD!

"Greg Garrison is a great leader and a great teacher of leadership. This book is required reading for anyone who aspires to lead in a way that makes a positive difference in the world."

-DES DEARLOVE, COFOUNDER OF THINKERS50

"Garrison makes a big difference. Enlightened leadership is important to almost every business breakthrough. The ability to improvise is critical to his team's success... . Garrison is an impresario, creating a new way of doing business as he goes. Garrison's flexibility is essential to this
exceptional success story."

—TOM PETERS

"His unique approach pushes at the frontiers of current management thinking and could radically
redefine the nature of organizations."

—THE FINANCIAL TIMES

"In this volume Greg Garrison further develops his convincing ideas about leadership, ideas that weave together important academic texts with his own frontline industry experience and inspirational guidance."

—Dr Richard Adams, Reader in Entrepreneurship, Cranfield School of Management

"10,000 hours? Garrison has 100,000 hours as a successful, innovative, senior line manager".
"Pay heed and Lead!"

—JIM STERNE, AUTHOR, SPEAKER, AND CONSULTANT

What's inside the book

Chapters Covered in Book 1

  • Chapter 1: Building Cathedrals: Visioning—The Art of the Long View

  • Chapter 2: The Alchemy of Leadership: The Magic and Mechanics of Leadership

  • Chapter 3: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Pioneers, Gurus, Visionaries

  • Chapter 4: Constructs of Character: Foundations and Pillars of Success

  • Chapter 5: Know Thyself: Deciphering and Interpreting Others

  • Chapter 6: Venerable Oaks and Your Legacy — Making It All Count

What's inside the book

Chapters Covered in Book 2

  • Chapter 1: Awakening the Muse—Conjuring Creativity and Catalyzing Innovation

  • Chapter 2: Leading People And Teams—Do The Right Things Right

  • Chapter 3: Remote Living And Working—Leading From Anywhere

  • Chapter 4: Organizational Design—Usability, Design Thinking, Virtual Teams

  • Chapter 5: Leading External Teams: Radical Alignment: Beyond The Boundaries

  • Chapter 6: Conclusion — The Thousandth Time

Achievements

Internationally known technologist & innovator, media analyst, industry thought leader and government advisor, public speaker, and trainer.

Analyst and Commentator

New Media Analyst and CNBC Television Commentator

Government Technology Advisor

Developed and delivered long-range technology strategies to the European Commission and British Commonwealth

Technologist and Innovator

Internationally known technologist, innovator and public speaker

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