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The Leader You Want to Be: Five Essential Principles for Bringing Out Your Best Self — Every Day
You can be the leader you want to be–today and every day.
Do you find yourself wishing you had more hours in the day? Do you want to do more, yet feel you just can’t add another thing to your plate without being overwhelmed by stress or compromising your health, relationships, and integrity?
No doubt, as a leader, there are some days when you feel the flow. You’re able to make a difference and achieve big goals. You feel confident and energized. On days like this, you’re your best self–the leader you want to be. But on other days, you go down a different, negative path, with pressures and doubts making you feel like a lesser version of yourself. How can you be the leader you want to be, every day? The answer is more than a time-management system or a silver-bullet solution for changing your routines. Leadership expert and coach Amy Jen Su’s powerful new book helps readers discover that the answer lies within. By focusing in specific ways on five key leadership elements– Purpose, Process, People, Presence, and Peace–you can increase your time, capacity, energy, and ultimately your impact, with less stress and more equanimity. The Leader You Want to Be is the indispensable guide to helping you tap into and expand your leadership capacity so that you can sustain your optimal level of performance and thrive as a leader.
Author and Paravis Partners co-Founder Amy Jen Su on the Five Essential Principles for The Conference Board:
WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
“For years, I’ve referred leaders to Amy and have seen great results as she helps them tap into the best versions of themselves every day. With The Leader You Want To Be, now everyone can access her simple yet holistic toolkit. This book is a must-read for anyone who is figuring out how to be professionally successful without sacrificing their sense of self.”
“This book is just what I needed, when I needed it for the next phase of my life’s work leading people to achieve and sustain their healthiest selves at a complex, multi-national organization. Amy’s easy frameworks apply to the complicated issues we grapple with as leaders. The Leader You Want to Be enables readers to show up as their best selves at work, at home, and as they go out into the world.”
“Becoming your best self and the leader you want to be is not an event, nor does it happen by accident; it is a continual evolution that requires intentionality and focus and Amy Su’s book presents the fundamentals of leadership and development in a powerful and digestible way providing a road map for every leader to truly become their best self. “
“Do you find yourself wondering how you can continue to function as your best self even as your role gets larger and more complex? In The Leader You Want to Be, Amy Jen Su lays out an insightful and practical framework for managing the speed and demands of leadership today. She wades into tough questions that will challenge your assumptions and lead you to action.”
At 66, having had thousands of colleagues in my companies, I’m struck principally by how poorly I’ve led them – and managed me. Amy Jen Su, who has taught Atlantic Media and our clients, is extraordinary where I am not. The Leader You Want to Be is teemingwith tips, tactics and best practices for managing your time, the altitude of your work, your emotions and your workforce. It is an Aladin’s treasure trove of ideas to be put to use in the instant. This is not Dostoevsky, writing for the ages. The Leader You Want to Be is for this afternoon.”
“For years I’ve seen and felt the transformative impact of Amy Jen Su’s philosophies on leadership. The Leader You Want to Be isa practical and engaging encapsulation of what makes Amy so special: an ability to incorporate the personal and the professional into one holistic strategy that pushes leaders to be more successful, and more fulfilled.”
“Amy has done it again! With clear advice and practical tools, all dispensed in a non-judgmental, forgiving voice, The Leader You Want to Be is the best guide I have read in helping leaders take a whole-person approach and understand how they can bring their best selves to life both at work and at home. Her contrast of “Leader A” and “Leader B” is instructive (and familiar!) for all of us, and she has clearly succeeded in her aspiration to give each of her readers the roadmap to their richest and fullest life and their path to their own “Leader A.”