High Altitude Leadership, Chris Warner
High Altitude Leadership, Chris Warner
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High Altitude Leadership
What the World's Most Forbidding Peaks Teach Us About Success

Author: Chris Warner, Don Schmincke

Narrator: Marc Vietor

Unabridged: 6 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 07/20/2020

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

The book is a new approach to leadership development, based on ground-breaking scientific research, field-tested under the most brutal conditions on the most difficult summits, and successfully applied in the training of executives, management teams and entrepreneurs throughout the world.  Each chapter takes one core lesson and approaches it from three points of view. First, the authors introduce a key leadership principle learned from expeditions in the Himalayas and Andes. Then they bring these lessons to the world of business, with examples from their experiences in coaching entrepreneurs and business management teams. Finally, the authors look at the science behind these winning strategies, exploring these principles at their fundamental level. Each chapter concludes with a workbook-style summary, laying out the chapter's key points as a summarized, plan-of-attack blueprint that will help the reader: master the courage and skill to approach leadership from a practical perspective, overcome persistent barriers to performance, understand the source of dysfunctional behaviors that plague organizations and learn how to overcome and redirect them into productive results, understand why chronic management problems exist, where and why they originate and what to do about them, enrich profits, markets and organizational culture.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sam on May 11, 2019

Great read with an alternate take on the typical leadership books you may read. Interesting perspective on leadership relative to life or death situations. Debunks the current mood of mission statements, and other gimmicks by simply stripping performance models bare and getting to the organic, inbre......more

Goodreads review by Paiman Chen on November 17, 2020

You can be successful without ever reaching the summit. Accept the role of luck in your successes and failures.......more

Goodreads review by Gene on March 20, 2019

This book made me start reading again, and I can't recommend it to you enough because of that. I just recorded my review of this book, and I have posted it to YouTube! Check it out here: [URL not allowed] Let me know your opinion of my opinion.......more

Goodreads review by Brad on November 29, 2008

Excellent book on Leadership qualities. Written by a leadership consultant and a big mountain guide and climber, this book mixed real life-and-death mountaineering stories from the highest peaks in earth with important lessons for us leaders who operate much below the 'death zone'. I was sucked in f......more

Goodreads review by John on September 26, 2013

One of the top 5 books on leadership I have ever read. Entertaining practical and true.......more