Predictive Leadership
Avoiding the 12 Critical Mistakes That Derail Growth-Hungry Companies
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
Nothing masks issues and robs an organization of its full potential like success
That's right! Most successful, growth-hungry companies begin to miss their projections or worse, not because demand is low or conditions are difficult, but simply because they don't know how to predict, nurture, or even maintain their own growth and success. At each stage of growth, natural problems are glossed over in the scramble to expand, making the organization vulnerable to chaos, no matter how strong or expert its leaders. Most leaders feel isolated, pressured to build on earlier success and maintain total control – the perfect recipe for the 12 most common and critical mistakes to show up and slow or kill growth.
Kirk Dando, leadership and growth expert, CEO of Dando Advisors, calls these roadblocks the "12 Warning Signs of Success," and has helped leaders across industries predict, prepare, and avoid them at every stage of growth. Predictive Leadership is rich with real-world stories, prescriptive advice on how to scale your business and limit the drama so you can unlock the growth and success you desire.
Maybe you had the right idea but hired the wrong person. Maybe you're running into a leadership bottleneck, having trouble getting your team aligned, unknowingly incentivizing failure, or losing sight of your core values. Dando, known in leadership circles as the "Company Whisperer," has encountered every one of these obstacles himself, as a C-level executive in a high-growth billion-dollar business. He knows firsthand that these moments of truth determine whether you can lead your company to become a strong, mature, and financially sustainable organization, or drift toward an uncertain future.
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Every company hopes for success, but few realize that rapid growth brings with it a whole new set of pitfalls. Dando, a leadership and growth expert, shows leaders how to anticipate and prepare for the changes that growth will generate. While Dando's advice may seem contrarian at times, it proves to be sound and actionable, giving leaders necessary tools to recognize 12 warning signs, including having the right ideas but the wrong people; bad management of great opportunities; leadership bottlenecks; and communication vacuums. Dando links these signals to the three predominant business arenas of leadership, culture, and performance. He also provides what he calls a predictive leader's tool set that helps prevent, rather than fix, the problems that affect results and examines the dangers of complexity within an organization. Dando offers leaders valuable advice as they transition from startup stage through growth mode to industry leader.