The Leap to Leader: How Ambitious Managers Make the Jump to Leadership

Get ready to make the biggest jump of your career.

The  chasm separating managers from leaders is widening as the skills  required to be an effective leader grow in number and complexity. But  you're ambitious. You want to cross that chasm. And your organization  needs you to cross it in order to join its bench of stars who will lead  with empathy and humanity and ground the organization's strategies in a  meaningful, mission-driven, and purposeful way.

The Leap to Leader is your trusted playbook for making the biggest jump of your career.  You'll learn from more than a hundred successful leaders who share their  powerful insights and compelling stories of how to make the leap, along  with practical strategies and tactics for building a loyal following,  moving up quickly to broaden your impact, and making the subtle but  crucial mindset shifts that are required to lead others effectively.

As  senior managing director at the ExCo Group, Adam Bryant has worked  directly with hundreds of fast-rising executives, sharing the leadership  development frameworks, tools, and approaches that are at the heart of  this book. He draws on the collective wisdom of the one hundred mentors  at his firm—all former CEOs or global business leaders—who know what it  takes to make the leap to leader. As the creator of the iconic Corner  Office column in the New York Times, Bryant has spoken with more than a thousand leaders over the years about the challenges and nuances of leadership.

The leap to leader doesn't have to be a leap of faith. If you're ready to make the jump, start here.