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The Real Leader

Sixteen disciplines of the leader people want to follow.

By Bascomb Grecian · 144 pages

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The title is not the thing.

A title gives you access to people's time. It cannot give you their heart, their best thinking, or the extra effort a person gives only when they want to. That part has to be earned, every day, by who you are when the situation becomes difficult.

The Real Leader is a sixteen-week study for managers, supervisors, owners, pastors, and team leaders who want to become the leader the moment requires. Not a book to admire. A book to work: one discipline, one week, one honest look in the mirror.

Fear gets compliance. Trust gets commitment.

What's inside.

Part One · The Leader Within

Before you can lead anyone else, you have to lead yourself.

  1. 1The Inside Job
  2. 2Own It
  3. 3Know All Available Information
  4. 4Fly the Airplane
  5. 5Master Your State

Part Two · The Leader Among People

People don't follow titles. They follow trust.

  1. 6Trust Gets Commitment
  2. 7Put Yourself in Their Shoes
  3. 8Say the Hard Thing Kindly
  4. 9Standards People Can See

Part Three · The Leader Who Multiplies

The measure of a leader is what people become because of them.

  1. 10Grow People, Not Followers
  2. 11Decide
  3. 12Integrity When It Costs Something
  4. 13Legacy

Part Four · The Leader Who Teaches

Every real leader is, in the end, an instructor.

  1. 14How People Learn
  2. 15How to Teach Anything
  3. 16Build Flag-Wavers

Every chapter gives you.

  • ✓144 pages, built to be worked one chapter a week
  • ✓Sixteen disciplines in four parts
  • ✓Check Yourself questions in every chapter, aimed at you, not your team
  • ✓The Words: sentences you can say out loud tomorrow
  • ✓The Practice: one specific assignment for the next seven days
  • ✓Part Four: how people learn and how to teach anything, from the method the FAA uses to train flight instructors
  • ✓The Real Leader Self-Audit, scored by you and someone you trust
  • ✓A 30-day plan, the Real Leader Pledge, and 60 standards to carry with you
  • ✓Yours to print for yourself and a team you personally lead
Buy the PDF · $49.99

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