How Successful Leaders Do Business with Their World

This book presents compelling evidence that top leaders learn from an early age to 'do business with the world' by using their power and authority to partner with it, rather than impose themselves on it. Based on interviews, it offers insight into how these findings can be applied in practice.

Stephen Barden, DProf, is a professional coach-mentor working with clients in Europe, the UK and the USA. Prior to coaching he was the chief executive of several media and technology corporations. Stephen's podcast series, The Power of Balance, can be found at https://www.buzzsprout.com/1311442/5406607.

Prologue. Introduction: What This Book Is About Section 1 1. Choosing Our Leaders Blind 2. What Is a Successful Leader and What Is Power? 3. Discovering the Navigational Stance 4. The Navigational Compass Section 2 5. Navigation 6. Pragmatism: Do the Best Possible 7. Triangular Challenge 8. Socialised Decision-Making 9. No Attachment to Failure 10. Acute Sense of Reality - No Wishful Thinking 11. Alertness to Constituents 12. Holism - See All the Linkages 13. Direction - Not Fixed Target or Dogma 14. Mentors Section 3 Introduction to Section 3: The Navigational Leader 15. Our Children 16. Choosing Leaders 17. Changing Leaders