“What’s happened to our leaders and to our leadership?”
Based on General Zinni’s leadership experiences from the battlefield to the boardroom,
Leading the Charge shows a new way through the significant leadership challenges of the
21st century.
The times are changing at an ever-increasing velocity. Old systems, organizations, and
ways of operating no longer work in our dynamic, complex and increasingly unstable new
environment. Out of this chaos and confusion, a new and different leader must emerge. Old
systems and methods will no longer work.
Leading the Charge is a visionary leadership book that examines the trends that
have reshaped our world and the ways in which visionary leaders and organizations can
effectively respond. Tomorrow’s successful leaders—in all fields, including the
military, academia, politics, and business—must know how to create, operate, and thrive
in very fluid, flattened, and integrated structures that are remarkably different from the
traditional organizations we are used to seeing. They will have to manage rapidly changing
technology and flows of information, and create faster and more far-reaching spans of
control.
Leading the Charge shows the way, and is an incisive and compelling guide to the new
world of leadership, one that will prove indispensable for years to come.
Organized around “Leading a New World,” a revolutionary leadership course General
Zinni developed and taught at the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy at Duke
University,
Leading the Charge makes a convincing case that leaders must . . .
- change with the times to be relevant.
- be ready for crisis mode at any given time.
- have a moral compass and the ability to steer the company in the right direction.
- be forward thinking, not reactive, to provide innovation and creativity.
- develop great leaders.
General Tony Zinni (Ret.) was commander in chief of CENTCOM and special envoy to
the Middle East. He has appeared on The Daily Show and Meet the Press among others. He is
currently chairman of the board at BAE Systems, Inc.Tony Koltz co-authored Tom Clancy’s
Into the Storm and Battle Ready as well as The Battle for Peace, a New York Times
bestseller.
Table of Contents
The Times are Changing at an ever Increasing velocity - Old Systems,
Organizations, and Ways of Operating no Longer Work in our Dynamic, Complex, and
Increasingly Unstable New Environment - The New Conditions and the New Environment
can't be Managed or Mastered by Old Systems and Methods
Leadership in this New Environment will Demand a New and Different Kind of Leader, a
Changed Leader who will have to Lead Differently
Leaders Must Change with the Times to be Relevant
Leaders Must Be Ready for Crisis Mode at any Given Time
Leaders Must Have a Moral Compass and the Ability to Steer the Company in the Right
Direction
Leaders Must be Forward Thinking, Not Reactive, to Provide Innovation and Creativity
Great Leaders Must Develop Great Leaders
256 pages, Hradcover