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 Based on the overwhelmingly positive feedback for his previous bestseller, Growing the Distance, Jim Clemmer wrote The Leader's Digest using the same "leadership wheel" framework. By popular demand, he continues with the unique format interweaving pithy quotations, anecdotes, and insightful commentary. Read more.

“If you're looking for a book that illuminates the topic of leadership in a useful, readable, and lively way, this is it.”

Warren Bennis, Distinguished Professor of Business, USC, and Co-author of GEEKS AND GEEZERS: How Era, Values and Defining Moments Shape Leader

The Leader's Digest: Practical Application Planner

The Practical Application Planner moves management teams from being inspired by The Leader's Digest to applying its Timeless Leadership Principles. This needs to be an ongoing process, not just a "sheep dip" event (one-size-fits-all training that isn’t used right away). Successful team development and organizational leadership comes from many small steps over a long period of time.

A key element of following-through on the Practical Application Planner process is to repeat all or part of this process throughout the rest of the organization:

  • Each member of the management team originally participating in this process, cascades it by taking their own team through the Practical Application Planner process. Each member of that team would then do the same with their team members down through the whole organization.
  • Frontline staff goes through the entire process or modified exercises that are especially relevant to the management team improvement plans that are unfolding and/or provide input back to management.

Inspiring and jam-packed with practical application ideas, The Leader’s Digest: Practical Application Planner is a cost-effective way to enrich leadership development initiatives with a medley of "edutaining" summaries for leaders on the go. It can help:

 

  • Reinforce new or existing development programs
  • Shift organizational culture toward stronger people leadership
  • Bond management teams with a common set of principles
  • Provide compelling evidence that hard results come from "soft skills"
  • Bolster emotional intelligence throughout leadership staff
 

“... writes persuasively about the need for better balance in our lives...urges readers to consider their legacy...offering the chance to relax, reflect and regroup...interweaves anecdotes, quotes, fictional stories and his own musings in a leisurely style...”

The Globe & Mail
 
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    "Finally an author has been brave enough, brilliant enough, and experienced enough to state the basic truths about effective managers running successful, fulfilling, motivated corporations
    Mary-Frances Turner, Commissioner, Development Services, Town of Markham
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    "Fantastic, really brought leadership and it's principles a practical sense."
    John Dallaire, Human Resources Director, Atlantic Blue Cross
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    "Excellent, thought-provoking, life changing course."
    Renee Laforet, Ministry of Health & Long-Term Care