Learn how to:
Pursue a life of purpose and achieve exceptional business performance and deep personal fulfillment.
Exude presence, energy and enthusiasm while demonstrating passion and compassion, courage and humility, toughness and care.
Build a leadership team that is aligned, collaborative and mutually accountable.
Infuse a culture of excellence and fulfillment, where employees are fully engaged and have an owner mindset.
Develop a resilient, creative and high trust organization that consistently delivers stellar financial results.
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Advanced Leadership for a New Era
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o be an effective CEO in today’s complex, diverse, and dynamic business landscape, you not only need superior strategic insights, but also the wisdom and discipline of a Zen master, the incisiveness of a razor-sharp investor, the diplomacy of an ambassador, and the inclusiveness of a social activist.
That requires inspiring, conscious, and enlightened leadership based on a purpose that is larger than self – the CEO Mastery Journey. Through seven key practices presented with real-life examples and thought-provoking candor and authenticity, author Sudhir Chadalavada shows you how to evolve from success to greatness as you achieve your own personal mastery, and then bring it to the organization.
All too often, businesses create their own misery of poor alignment, low engagement and high stress. However, when you understand and play by the new rules of the game, work can be a playground to fulfill your highest potential and to express your greatest gifts and deepest yearnings. That will in turn transform the way you work and live, and the fortunes of your company.
Table of Contents
xvii Acknowledgements
xix Preface
3 From Brink to Breakthrough
25 Claiming the Next Level in Leadership
65 Taking the CEO Mastery Journey
105 Practice 1: Master Human Motivations
141 Practice 2: Lead with Self-Mastery
177 Practice 3: Inspire With a Noble Purpose
205 Practice 4: Assess Current Reality
235 Practice 5: Bridge the Intent-to-Impact Gap
273 Practice 6: Engage in Action Leadership
303 Practice 7: Bake Mastery into Your Organizational DNA
333 Epilogue: Next Levels of Evolution
Author Insight
Why did I write this Book?
Meaningful work: We want work to be meaningful, fun and fulfilling. So, the majority of our waking life is in tune with our purpose!
Purposeful organizations: Successful and ambitious business leaders seek to build purposeful and profitable organizations where all the stakeholders are inspired to be a part - Executive team is mutually accountable, employees are fully engaged with an owner mindset, customers are delighted, shareholders are proud, partners are involved, and communities are included. It requires organizational mastery to build such a purposeful, conscious, self-actualized organization.
Keys to Mastery: I was relentless in my seeking and discovered the keys to personal and organizational mastery. I wrote this book to share those practical steps and to inspire people in to believing that If I can do it, you can too.
Purposeful organizations: Successful and ambitious business leaders seek to build purposeful and profitable organizations where all the stakeholders are inspired to be a part - Executive team is mutually accountable, employees are fully engaged with an owner mindset, customers are delighted, shareholders are proud, partners are involved, and communities are included. It requires organizational mastery to build such a purposeful, conscious, self-actualized organization.
Keys to Mastery: I was relentless in my seeking and discovered the keys to personal and organizational mastery. I wrote this book to share those practical steps and to inspire people in to believing that If I can do it, you can too.
What is this book about?
Proven Practices: We want work to be meaningful, fun and fulfilling. So, the majority of our waking life is in tune with our purpose!
Developing Mastery: Successful professionals and leaders already know what it takes to pursue and achieve professional mastery. They had several years of academic education and professional experience. Many of them do not know what it takes to achieve personal and organizational mastery. Personal and Organizational Mastery is assumed at best to be unclear and at worst to be mysterious and esoteric.
Developing Mastery: Successful professionals and leaders already know what it takes to pursue and achieve professional mastery. They had several years of academic education and professional experience. Many of them do not know what it takes to achieve personal and organizational mastery. Personal and Organizational Mastery is assumed at best to be unclear and at worst to be mysterious and esoteric.
How is this different than any leadership book?
My Personal Experience: Most leadership books are written by academic researchers. They describe the characteristics of enlightened leadership and enlightened organizations but do not know “how” to get there. This book is based on my Personal experience and journey. Several other courageous and successful leaders have taken and continue to take this journey.
Integrates Personal and Professional: Most people and books separate Personal Development (self-help) from Professional Development; Personal Fulfillment from Professional Excellence; Pursuit of Purpose from Profit. This book argues that the choice is a false dichotomy, they actually reinforce each other in a virtuous cycle.
Practical Tools & Techniques: Provides practical tools and techniques along with real life examples … Self-improvement + OD + Action Leadership – P#6 Operational infrastructure + P#7 - Bake in Org DNA
Spiritual intelligence and business performance: The author separates spirituality from religion and makes a convincing case for spiritual intelligence (SQ) being critical not only for personal fulfillment but for enhanced business performance. Based on personal experience, the author suggests that an increased SQ results in improved IQ and EQ.
Demystifies consciousness, self-actualization and enlightenment: This book demystifies these “esoteric” terms and demonstrates that they can be tracked, evaluated and pursued for personal and professional development.
Engaging the Journey: It is a journey. Progress is guaranteed, pace is dependent on many factors … What do we want to convey here?
Integrates Personal and Professional: Most people and books separate Personal Development (self-help) from Professional Development; Personal Fulfillment from Professional Excellence; Pursuit of Purpose from Profit. This book argues that the choice is a false dichotomy, they actually reinforce each other in a virtuous cycle.
Practical Tools & Techniques: Provides practical tools and techniques along with real life examples … Self-improvement + OD + Action Leadership – P#6 Operational infrastructure + P#7 - Bake in Org DNA
Spiritual intelligence and business performance: The author separates spirituality from religion and makes a convincing case for spiritual intelligence (SQ) being critical not only for personal fulfillment but for enhanced business performance. Based on personal experience, the author suggests that an increased SQ results in improved IQ and EQ.
Demystifies consciousness, self-actualization and enlightenment: This book demystifies these “esoteric” terms and demonstrates that they can be tracked, evaluated and pursued for personal and professional development.
Engaging the Journey: It is a journey. Progress is guaranteed, pace is dependent on many factors … What do we want to convey here?
What is required to take this journey?
Your Commitment: Desire and passion, openness, courage and humility … Passion and hunger to unleash your best version and an open mind, heart and spirit to take the journey.
Three key points from my book for the CEO
1It starts with you.
You set the tone. You must be positive, present and purposeful. It is about your mindset – 7 mindsets to master yourself and achieve exceptional personal power. Personal Mastery.
2You cannot do it alone.
You will inspire and engage your executive team and the organization to unleash their very best and give their heart, mind and spirit to the common higher purpose. Organizational Mastery.
3Results will follow:
You will naturally achieve stellar business results and performance.
Your Vision will take shape: You will develop a Noble Vision along with the strategy and execution roadmap to guarantee progress.
Leadership Skills will develop naturally: You will learn, demonstrate and teach the 5 Action Leadership Skills. You will bake 4 critical processes in the org DNA.
Leadership Skills will develop naturally: You will learn, demonstrate and teach the 5 Action Leadership Skills. You will bake 4 critical processes in the org DNA.
