The New Agreements For Leaders: The 4 New Agreements and 7 Simple Tools that Develop Emerging Leaders and Managers and Grow Excellent Organizations - David Dibble
\nIt is said that one form of mastery is making the complex simple and easy for the user. For example, the incredibly complex technology that makes an iPhone work is made elegantly simple and easy for the user. In this little book, we are going to see complexity made elegantly simple and effective in leadership. While many have defined what makes good leaders, few have presented an actual process of becoming a good or even great leader. The process of becoming something better requires growth both personally and professionally. As most of us know, transformation for human beings is often difficult. We want to be different, expanded, better, but seem to unconsciously fall back into old familiar patterns. Emerging and even seasoned leaders face the same challenges when it comes to transforming themselves into the best leaders they can be. There is a second challenge to becoming a great leader which has been virtually invisible. It is the legacy paradigms or models for leadership themselves. We have, for the most part, defined leadership and management within the legacy top/down, directive model that long ago was made obsolete by a higher-level leadership paradigm, systems-based leadership. The reason for the emergence of this higher-level leadership paradigm is simple. Systems-based leadership creates more value in businesses than its predecessor. Stuck in the old model, we see even good execution often resulting in less-than-optimal management, leadership, and outcomes. However, this book is not about either top/down or systems-based leadership models. It is about a quantum leap to a new, higher-level leadership model: The New Agreements for Leaders. Within these four simple agreements resides this new model for leadership that creates more value in companies than either top/down or systems-based leadership models. Also, within this model is the resolution of many of the seemingly intractable people issues faced by most leaders in business today. As you will see, The New Agreements for Leaders is the application of little known leadership science. The Agreements are a mash-up of Nobel Prize-winning systems science and universal spiritual science. This model aligns with how the universe evolves and is a proven process for growing great leaders, managers, and businesses. Herein, you are introduced to a simple set of four leadership principles and seven tools (New Agreements Tools) that anyone can use to improve significantly the performance of almost an