Leading the Living Organization: Transform How You Lead to Deliver Extraordinary Results - Hardcover
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KATHERINE SHARPE never expected to become CEO overnight. After her father's sudden heart attack, she's left steering the company through new product launches, a global pandemic, and unrelenting market pressures. Yet despite her efforts, she finds her team hesitant to take ownership, slow to collaborate, and unprepared for the challenges ahead.
Just as she nears her breaking point, Katherine meets Merlyn, a consultant who introduces her to The Living Organization(R) framework. Merlyn challenges her to see what most leaders miss: Organizations are not machines to be engineered but living beings to be developed. That shift changes everything.
Through their conversations, Katherine discovers that the key to leading isn't controlling what people do but shaping the context that determines their behavior. She learns that authentic leadership requires more than plans and performance metrics; it calls for presence, wisdom, and the courage to lead with the whole of who she is--so the organization she serves can do the same.
Empowered by her newfound approach to align both strategy and culture, extraordinary results soon begin to materialize.
Leading the Living Organization delivers not just a leadership fable but a call to embrace a new paradigm of business leadership. Readers will see themselves in Katherine's struggles, and leaders at every level will find inspiration and practical tools to meet today's turbulence with clarity, resilience, and renewed confidence in building a better future.
Norman Wolfe is an accomplished executive and leadership coach with over forty years of experience in business from Fortune 500 companies to tech startups. A former HP executive, corporate director, and trusted CEO advisor, he helps organizations successfully evolve from rigid systems to living, dynamic enterprises.
Norman is a thought leader in strategy execution and the creator of The Living Organization (R) framework--a groundbreaking paradigm that transforms how leaders think, act, and drive results. Norman is the author of The Living Organization and the CEO of Quantum Leaders.
Wolfe, Jane: -Jane Wolfe is a leadership and communication coach with over twenty years of business management experience. She has combined her passion for improvisation coaching with the practical art of listening and observation to train leaders to become better communicators and innovators. After over twelve years of performing with improvisational comedy and theater troupes, Jane recognized the value these theater skills could have in providing fun, engaging training for teams looking to improve their teamwork, customer service, innovation, and strategy.
Jane is the author of Improv Your Relationships and the EVP of Quantum Leaders.
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