Faisal Hoque - Lift: Fostering the Leader in You Amid Revolutionary Global Change

PRAISE FOR LIFT

Leadership is no longer an exclusive role held by few, as discussed in Lift, but instead is a position that requires compassionate flexibility, collaboration, and confidence. With constant societal, environmental, and professional changes in our world, transactional leadership just wont cut it anymore.

JENNIFER EGGERS, founder and president of LeaderShift Insights Inc. and author of the international best seller Resilience: Its Not About Bouncing Back

What will it take to lead in this Fourth Industrial Revolution? Between pandemics, climate change, social unrest, AI, and new technologies, the only normal in the new normal is constant change. In his compelling new book, Faisal Hoque gives a much-needed Lift to leaders who want to stay on the forefront of change, and not be left behind.

ALAIN HUNKINS, CEO of Hunkins Leadership Group and author of Cracking the Leadership Code: Three Secrets to Building Strong Leaders

In this century, we are experiencing global challenges that require transformative leadership in order to mitigate impending disasters. This book outlines the challenges we face in the modern world and how leaders will need to address them.

RONALD E. RIGGIO, PHD, Henry R. Kravis professor of leadership and organizational psychology, Claremont McKenna College, Kravis Leadership Institute

Transformational leadership takes a good deal of learning and becoming better every day, far beyond good intentions. In his insightful and practical book, Lift, Faisal Hoque shares great lessons beyond the realms of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. I highly recommend Lift to all leaders aiming to enhance their leadership capacity for growth and crafting their own lives embracing a brighter future for others.

DR. OLEG KONOVALOV, one of the top global leaders on leadership and author of The Vision Code, the da Vinci of visionary leadership

An inspiring book that helps us to be aware of the huge world changes and our role as leaders in different contexts. Faisal Hoque highlights the importance of enhancing our human skills and empathy as leaders in a world increasingly automated due to the Fourth Industrial Revolution. The author includes in his discussion the complex times that came along with the pandemic and its effects on our lifestyle. This book is friendly to read and has a didactic structure, which makes it valuable not only for scholars but also practitioners, managers, entrepreneurs, and anyone that wants to lead successfully in this complex environment that we live in.

FRANCOISE CONTRERAS, PHD, profesor de la Universidad del Rosario.

The leadership dynamic experienced a seismic shift during COVID that requires a new approach to empower an organization. In Lift, Faisal Hoque offers innovative steps on transformational leadership that demonstrates how empathy is a crucial aspect in inspiring higher levels of organizational effectiveness.

ERIK NELSON, senior vice president of CACI International, Inc.

Lift is itself an act of transformational leadership. Faisal Hoque guides us with wisdom, empathy, and optimism through the complex, confusingand often frighteningconvergent forces at work which are changing the way we interact with our communities and our entire biosphere. Hoque leads us through the deep work necessary to recognize the import of those sweeping changes and urges us to take pragmatic action to become an agent for positive changethe kind of person who can transform good intentions into leading others to meaningful action and positive impact. Our children, and their children, may one day ask about these times, What were you thinking? What were you doing? If you are asking yourself, What can I do? this book is for you. Faisal Hoque gives us clarity, purpose, directionand hope.

G. SHAWN HUNTER, CEO of Mindscaling and author of Small Acts of Leadership

Amid the tumult of change we are experiencing comes Lift by Faisal Hoque. This book diagnoses whats going wrong and provides insight into what leaders can do to improve the situation for all of us. Backed by research, coupled with compelling narratives, Hoque delivers a path forward that we want to embrace because it is doable now.

JOHN BALDONI, executive coach at Global Guru/Leadership, and author of fifteen books, including Grace Notes: Leading in an Upside-Down World

Transformational leadership is a daily practice meant for all. Bravo, Faisal Hoque, for going beyond leadership theory and expertly providing actionable steps for the aspiring leader.

MERETE WEDELL-WEDELLSBORG, professor of leadership at IMD Business School and author of Battle Mind: How to Navigate in Chaos and Perform Under Pressure

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To Rian,
In a world full of turbulence, you have been the light that keeps me going...
From the moment you were born, you have inspired me to be my better self.
I am in awe of your courage, composure, attitude, resilience
leadership traits every one of us should be striving for.

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CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

IN A WORLD BEING TRANSFORMED by unprecedented change, effective, meaningful leadership is becoming even more essential.

That offers historic opportunities, provided we recognize the type of leaders we need to have and what those leaders need to do to carry out a different form of leadership.

Sweeping change is everywhere, much of it focused on technology. Labeled the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR), emerging technologies and their interactions with one another are upending how we work, play, educate, and govern ourselves. Artificial intelligence, augmented reality, big data, multidimensional printing, and the development of varied collaborative tools such as cobotsrobots designed to interact physically with human beings in a collaborative environmentare just a sampling of the power and pervasiveness of technological disruption.