By veteran leadership consultant Doug Moran
Whether you are a seasoned executive or just starting out in your first leadership role, this book will help you grow as a leader. Moran has taken Rudyard Kipling’s classic poem “If—” and used it to create a framework comprising sixteen eternal and essential leadership attributes. He draws on noteworthy historical events to illustrate how great leaders like Martin Luther King, Abraham Lincoln, Mother Teresa, and others applied these attributes to achieve extraordinary results.
If You Will Lead uses the power of storytelling to teach leadership lessons. It combines bigger-than-life examples with everyday stories to help leaders apply these lessons to their own leadership challenges. It’s a practical guide that offers numerous resources and tools to help readers hone their skills and achieve their full potential.
Bestselling and award-winning author, Doug Moran, has more than twenty-five years of leadership experience working in a variety of industries. He has worked for Verizon and Capital One (where he was CIO of the financial services division), and served the governor of the Commonwealth of Virginia as deputy secretary of health and human resources, chief operating officer of the department of social services, and telecommunications director. In addition, he has extensive nonprofit volunteer experience.
Doug’s leadership consultancy, If You Will Lead LLC, focuses on leadership development, executive coaching, organization excellence, and infrastructure strategy. His combination of corporate, government, and volunteer leadership experience gives him a unique perspective on leadership challenges in all of these different fields.
“Few people are born leaders. The rest of us need a guide to help us gain both the courage and competence to lead well. Doug Moran’s book provides the perfect blend of a thoughtful leadership framework and anecdotes from the lives of history’s greatest leaders to help make his points come to life.”
-John Scanlon, EVP and CFO, Intersections, Inc.
“It’s a fascinating way for today’s managers to think about their own leadership brand.”
-Steve Arneson, Ph.D., president, Arneson Leadership Consulting
“Serious leaders interested in transformation for themselves or their organizations ought to savor it, journal with it, and refer to it often as a way to calibrate, create, and contribute results that matter.”
-Christine Wahl, MCC, author of Be Your Own Coach, and On Becoming a Leadership Coach, creator of the Georgetown University Leadership Coaching Program