Lolly Daskal - The Leadership Gap: What Gets Between You and Your Greatness

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Drawing from her vast experience coaching senior executives around the world, Lolly paints revealing leadership portraits that expose both darkness and the light in all leadersand in ourselves. The Leadership Gap is fascinating, provocative, entertaining, and usefula significant new contribution to how we think and act as leaders, and I highly recommend it.

Jim Kouzes, coauthor of The Leadership Challenge and the Deans Executive Fellow of Leadership, Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University

Thoughtful and practical, analytical and personal, The Leadership Gap invites leaders to rethink what it takes to be great, and promises to help bridge the leadership gap that plagues business and society. I urge you to read it.

William C. Taylor, cofounder of Fast Company, author of Simply Brilliant

Lolly Daskal reveals exactly what it is that makes great leaders great, along with the gaps that stand between leaders and their greatness. Every leader will benefit by applying the principles contained in this book, along with their people, their customers, and their companies.

Emma Seppl, Yale University Center for Emotional Intelligence, author of The Happiness Track

Today, leaders can only achieve greatness if they are willing to find and fill their competency gaps. In this fast-moving and highly helpful read, Lolly Daskal will show you the seven archetypes of leadership as well as the opportunities and pitfalls each one contains. Read it and soar!

Tim Sanders, author of Dealstorming and Love Is the Killer App: How to Win Business and Influence Friends

An insightful new take on the world from one of my favorite leadership experts. Two Likeable thumbs up for this MUST READ!

Dave Kerpen, author of The Art of People and Likeable Social Media

In this deeply insightful book, leadership expert Lolly Daskal outlines a series of eye-opening and game-changing ideas, including why embracing weakness is the first step to achieving greatness. If you want instant insight into your clients, your boss, and even yourself, get this book. It will redefine the way you lead.

Ron Friedman, PhD, author of The Best Place to Work

In these uncertain times, its more important than ever for leaders to be people who are truthful and who we can trust. This book guides you towards your greatness in the quest to become a better and more effective leader.

Lauren Maillian, TV personality, start-up investor, and author of The Path Redefined

This book might just be the next best thing to having your own personal coach.

Art Markman, PhD, director of the Program in the Human Dimensions of Organizations at the University of Texas at Austin and author of Smart Thinking, Smart Change, and Brain Briefs

The Leadership Gap reads like my storya deep search for who I am being while I am leading. If John Grisham wrote a book on leadership, it would be a compelling page-turner like this one.

Chip R. Bell, author of Kaleidoscope: Delivering Innovative Service that Sparkles

I love this book. Each page is chock-full of wisdom and common-sense actionable ideas. Lolly gets to the heart of what keeps us from being great and what we need to do to close the gap to become our best selves.

Jesse Lyn Stoner, coauthor of Full Steam Ahead! Unleash the Power of Vision

In The Leadership Gap, Lolly Daskal speaks truth to power through her penetrating and practical insights for todays and tomorrows leaders.

Bruce Rosenstein, managing editor of Leader to Leader, author of Create Your Future the Peter Drucker Way

With expert analysis and soulful compassion, Lolly Daskal provides a fascinating expose on the psychological gaps leaders face in realizing their true potential. Ive seen few other books with such thoughtfulness, practicality, and empathy for the human side of becoming a leader.

Andy Molinsky PhD, author of Global Dexterity and Reach

I love love love reading Lollys leadership insights. She inspires me to be a better man, and her writing gives me effective tools to inspire action in the teams I lead.

Adam Kreek, Olympic gold medalist and founder of KreekSpeak

Theres no way to read The Leadership Gap and walk away unchanged. Lolly Daskal brilliantly distilled her experience working with world leaders into an immediately actionable book filled with wisdom.

Skip Prichard, CEO of OCLC, author of The Book of Mistakes (coming January 2018), and Leadership Insights blogger at www.skipprichard.com

Great leadership starts with self-knowledge. Lolly Daskal provides a powerful new framework for understanding yourself and rising to become the leader, and person, you want to become.

Dorie Clark, adjunct professor at Duke Universitys Fuqua School of Business and author of Reinventing You and Stand Out

Lolly Daskal takes us on a unique and insightful journey into the seven archetypes of leadership and shows us what it is that makes some leaders impactful over the long term and others fall miserably short. This book is a powerful tool for growing self-awareness and improving your impact as a leader.

Dr. Jackie Freiberg, coauthor of CAUSE! A Business Strategy for Standing Out in a Sea of Sameness

The Leadership Gap compellingly shows the tension that takes place inside of human beings, because within each of us are two competing sides, but only one leads to greatness. Whether you are a rebel or an explorer, a truth teller or a hero, an inventor, a navigator, or a knight, this book is a valuable resource for anyone who aspires to become a more authentic and complete leader.

Robert Rosales, founder of Lead Academy, a positive psychology-based leadership development consultancy

Filled with smart experience and candor, Daskals book will help any leader get to the next levelincluding you.

Damon Brown, author of The Bite-Sized Entrepreneur: 21 Ways to Ignite Your Passion & Pursue Your Side Hustle

Riveting from beginning to end, The Leadership Gap pulls back the boardroom curtain to share startling insights from an executive coach who counsels world-class leaders behind the scenes.

Jane Ransom, international speaker, Success Principles trainer, author of Self-Intelligence

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