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The FED approach to leadership is founded on the belief that we are all leaders when we are in touch with what we care about and are ‘up to something’. That is, we have an ambition, dream, goal that excites us and we are doing something about it.
I was delighted to be interviewed the other week for the Thinkers50 site which provides ‘the definitive listing of the world’s top 50 business thinkers’. View the interview here
I was asked why there would be two books about FED available and this gave me an opportunity to talk about what we are up to. Briefly, it is to make as big a difference as we can to the quality of leadership in organisations of all kinds.
So while a publishing arm of the Financial Times, FT Prentice Hall, will publish in November 2009 an edition for the business reader called Leadership Plain and Simple, I will continue to self-publish an update of the first book, Future – Engage – Deliver, called How to make a Bigger Difference. The FT book will be available in all good bookstores. ‘Bigger Difference’ will be available at low cost only to people in the not-for-profit sector ie education, health, charities and government. It will only be available from this site.
The reason for this two-book approach is that we want to reach as many people as we can and a low price version will help us do that.
So that’s a part of what we are up to and we are excited about it.
What are you up to and what are you excited about?
If you don’t have an answer that grabs you, do spend time thinking this through. This is the number one question to answer if you’re to be a leader who makes a bigger difference. You’ll find more prompts on this essential topic in the fourth chapter of the book.
4 Comments
ann elliott
Just to say that I love learning about leadership from you and I never seem to stop learning from you despite being a leader in organisations for years. You help me see my skills and strengths clearly and to also recognise where i can still develop. I cant wait to receive regular updates from you!
ann
Nadia Chambers
Hi Steve
I’m finding the FED approach really helpful in bringing together a wide-ranging group of professionals to focus around an important project.
The FED book is a great handbook that I can work with…or it was! I recently introduced it to my husband. He read it. Then he stole it. Now he quotes from it.
Other FED- ers, you’ve been warned! The mantra is Future-Engage-Deliver, it doesnt mention that you have to share your book!
Alister Scott
I just love this stuff. It challenges and supports me to be a better leader ‘out there’ in the world and also ‘in here’ in how I run myself. The need for leadership is all around us; knowing Steve and getting to know FED has given me equal doses of challenge, support and tools for spending more of my time ‘in leader mode’. As they say in Ireland, ‘more power to your elbow, Steve’!
Andy Bird
I have been privileged to experience the power of Future-Engage-Deliver both personally and in work with my Brand Learning colleagues and clients. Like all great ideas, the concepts are simple and intuitive, but they are also incredibly insightful, practical and inspiring. I couldn’t recommend Steve and his colleagues more highly to anyone interested in developing themselves as a leader.