Robert J Anderson - Scaling Leadership: Building Organizational Capability and Capacity to Create Outcomes That Matter Most

Pixar is a creative company that has made it a priority to constantly re-examine itself, but even in a company like ours, certain leadership impediments can become impossible to see, and detrimental calcification can set in. As a consultant to me, Bill Adams has been an astonishingly quick study who was able to identify leadership issues and put me on a constructive path to remedy them. Bill's ability to see complex problems and help me generate gettable, actionable solutions has been both remarkable and pivotal in allowing us to bring a fresh leadership reset to a company in its 30th year. Bill and his partner Bob have captured the essence of the wisdom and the tools they bring to helping leaders in Scaling Leadership. I cannot recommend the book strongly enoughespecially if you think you don't need it!

Jim Morris, President, Pixar Animation Studios

The Leadership Circle lens is a gift that keeps on giving! Its enormous database has long provided unrivaled quantitative power. Now, in Scaling Leadership, Anderson and Adams open up the corresponding qualitative treasure-trove to further illuminate the paths to truly transformative leadership. A must-read for all leaders, and those who help them!

Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey, Harvard University faculty and
co-authors of Immunity to Change, and An Everyone Culture

The future of capitalism is conscious capitalism. A conscious business can only emerge through conscious leadership at scale. Anderson and Adam, in Scaling Leadership, clearly and practically show you how to become a more conscious and effective leader, how to replicate that in your teams, and how to scale conscious leadership throughout the organization. Read this book and put it into practice!

John Mackey, Co-founder and CEO, Whole Foods Market,
Co-founder, Conscious Capitalism Inc.

Scaling Leadership and the Full Circle Group approach is a powerful path to step changing leaders' capabilities individually and as a team to drive positive change and deliver outstanding results. As an organization, it moves you from reactive, defensive and excuse making to creative, purposeful and outcome focused. I highly recommend the book and the approach to CEOs and their teams.

Erik Fyrwald Chief Executive Officer and President at
Syngenta International AG and Director Eli Lilly and Company

Scaling Leadership is an excellent readreally on the mark. I am enthused to endorse. It hits any number of themes that are essential to leading well. I will call out two that resonate strongly with my experience. First, we lead people, not balance sheets or machines. In the end, our ability to call forth discretionary energy is what distinguishes us as leaders, and that the ability to do that is learnable. This book will challenge you to do just that and will show you how. Second, as I transitioned into the president and later the CEO role, I needed to rethink my role and understand where my leverage came from. The migration was from what had gotten me therebusiness/financial acumen, strategic skill, problem-solving, focus, etc.to a far greater focus on understanding how to create a highly engaged culture tied to purpose/aspiration and cultivate leaders who could do the same. The prior skills are really important (I still use them routinely) but would have been limiting if I hadn't augmented them with new skills. The emphasis this book places on these themesand the way the authors develop the casemakes great sense. I strongly recommend this book to anyone in (or aspiring to) a senior position of leadership.

Gerry Anderson, Chairman and CEO, DTE Energy

To scale-up your business you must scale exceptional leadership. Anderson and Adams have written a definitive work on Scaling Leadershipthe kind of leadership that is built for scale and multiplies effective leadership throughout the organization. Do not miss this book. In this well-researched book, senior leaders describe, in their own words, the kind of leadership that scales, and the kind that fails to scale. This book will challenge you to step up your game, it will confront you and inspire you. More importantly, it will show you what you need to do to scale your leadership.

Verne Harnish, Founder Entrepreneurs' Organization (EO)
and author of Scaling Up (Rockefeller Habits 2.0)

Wow! What a book! Anderson and Adams have mined their rich set of data on what makes leaders truly excellent, and they have struck gold. By helping us understand the way that some core leadership strengths actually become liabilities at scale, they solve one of the most important leadership mysteries. Now we understand what the true leadership superpowers areand we can see how to cultivate them. Scaling Leadership is fascinating, bold, and brave. It will help you shift from the patterns that have helped you in the past to those that will create a better future. I am very excited this book is in the world.

Dr. Jennifer Garvey Berger, author Simple Habits for
Complex Times and Changing on the Job.

If it is your aspiration to improve your leadership performance and that of your team... read this book! Scaling Leadership is a natural sequel to Adam's and Anderson's earlier book, Mastering Leadership. It introduces a model that produces a .93 correlation between 18 creative competencies and leadership effectiveness. Working from a four-quadrant model based on input from thousands of leaders around the world, the authors lay out a developmental path opens to all. The book is rich with real-life examples, case studies, and supporting metrics. Each chapter ends with a homework assignment that takes the reader on their own personal journey. A powerful examination of the human side of enterprise, the book invites the reader to access the unlimited bank of feedback available to each of us that can inform his/her leadership performance. It is not an easy journey. The first 12 chapters outline the actions and attitudes required for true development. The last chapter presents a compelling assessment of why we need to take the trip!

Stephen Ewing: Chairman of the Board of AAA Michigan
and ACG, Retired President and CEO of MCN Energy
Group Inc., Retired Vice-Chair DTE Energy.

Leaders bring the weather.' What a great description of the importance of senior leadership and the reason why we so often focus on trying to change leadership behavior. In my experience, the Leadership Circle Profile described in Scaling Leadership is unparalleled in terms of the leadership mindset (and subsequent behavior) change that it triggers. It isn't an approach that leaves leaders feeling inadequate, but instead empowers leaders to focus their time and energy on those things that really matter, and it helps them avoid those behaviors that cancel out all of the good things that they do. And when applied at scale, it can not only change the lives of individual leaders, but it can transform the organizations they lead.

Tammy Lowry, Global Head of Talent Innovation, F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd

Brave, bold, effective leaders will be inspired by Anderson and Adams new book, Scaling Leadership. This brilliant work combines their deep experience and rich database working with world-class leaders, with keen insights for individual growth, and more importantly, how to nourish and grow your future leaders. Any person in a leadership role, interested in their own growth and the growth and success of their organizations through exemplary leadership should get this book now.

Val DiFebo, CEO, Deutsch NY

There are healthy and unhealthy ways to scale businesses. We can no longer afford an unhealthy approach to growththe toll on people and the planet is too high. This book is an indispensable guide to healthy growth, written by two true masters of the art of leadership.