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    Lead Well: 10 Steps to Successful and Sustainable Leadership
    Lead Well: 10 Steps to Successful and Sustainable Leadership
    Lead Well: 10 Steps to Successful and Sustainable Leadership
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    Lead Well: 10 Steps to Successful and Sustainable Leadership

    By Ken Falke

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    Leadership | (verb) | lead·er·ship: Helping others arrive at an end result they could not achieve on their own.

    Whether you've led for years or are new to the role, being a leader is a responsibility that doesn't come with instructions. Many leadership books focus strictly on tips for the business world. Others offer analysis but lack strategy, while most are confounding and complicated. To be a leader in today's world, whether in your personal or professional life, you need a simple philosophy—one with proven results.

    In Lead Well, leadership consultant and serial entrepreneur Ken Falke introduces you to the ten principles you need to become an impactful leader. With tactics that are easy to understand and even easier to implement, this book is packed with Ken's insight from more than four decades in business, nonprofit, and military leadership. You'll learn how to be the best version of yourself before inspiring others to contribute ideas and accomplish goals. Good leaders know that character and morals matter as much as profit and loss. Lead Well is your practical guide for understanding the leader within and becoming the person you need and want to be.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateDec 14, 2021
    ISBN9781544524177

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      Lead Well - Ken Falke

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      Contents

      Foreword

      Introduction

      Chapter 1

      Lead Well #1

      Lead Yourself First

      Chapter 2

      Lead Well #2

      Create and Clearly Communicate Your Vision

      Chapter 3

      Lead Well #3

      Set and Achieve Goals that Align with Your Vision

      Chapter 4

      Lead Well #4

      Listen Well

      Chapter 5

      Lead Well #5

      Lead with Kindness

      Chapter 6

      Lead Well #6

      Hire Quality People

      Chapter 7

      Lead Well #7

      Create a Culture of Loyalty and Satisfaction

      Chapter 8

      Lead Well #8

      Hold Yourself and Others Accountable

      Chapter 9

      Lead Well #9

      Lead with Courage

      Chapter 10

      Lead Well #10

      Give Back

      Conclusion

      Acknowledgments

      About the Author

      Copyright © 2021 Ken Falke

      All rights reserved.

      Lead Well

      10 Steps to Successful and Sustainable Leadership

      ISBN  978-1-5445-2418-4 Hardcover

                 978-1-5445-2416-0 Paperback

                 978-1-5445-2417-7 Ebook

      To my father and the US Navy for shaping my leadership philosophy.

      Foreword

      Lead Well

      Arthur M. Blank

      August 2021

      It was only a few minutes into my first meeting with Ken that I knew with certainty Ken and I were kindred spirits. We are both deeply committed to making the world a better place, a place of service above self and leaders focused on returning the many blessings we have received back into the world.

      As our relationship has deepened, my respect and admiration for Ken has only grown. He is a kind, caring, and deeply thoughtful man who seeks to grow and learn every single day. Ken realizes the greatest form of philanthropy is providing people with the opportunity to live lives of passion, purpose, and service. Ken does this through his incredible work at the Boulder Crest Foundation and in the way he takes care of people.

      Ken regularly asks himself the same questions I reflect on when I think about my family of businesses. Are we, as a company, worthy of our people’s lives? Are we honoring the time, the commitment, and the life energy that they bring to their jobs every day?

      The longest running study on the subject of satisfaction tells us that the good life is built on good relationships. I am convinced—as Ken is too—that the simple act of connecting to other human beings is the key to personal happiness and health, and building successful enterprises.

      Far too often, leaders—overwhelmed by responsibilities at work and in their personal lives—forget a key maxim: a leader’s primary job is to take care of their people. In Lead Well, Ken lays out ten ways you can do that, starting with learning how to lead yourself first.

      It took me many years to learn an important lesson, one that Ken focuses on in detail in this book and in all areas of his life and work: if you can’t find ways to refuel your own tank, your performance, in all areas of life, will suffer. Without the ability to lead yourself, you will struggle to be present and take the people you care about the most for granted.

      As leaders, partners, parents, and grandparents, we can and must do better. Not only do the people that we lead deserve it, but so do we.

      We live in a time of immense suffering, struggle, and stress. A time where the traditional walls between professional and personal have come crumbling down. A time where meetings occur virtually, with cameos from our children and pets. We have a responsibility to recognize that giving people a job isn’t enough. We have to provide them with the opportunity to grow and contribute, and do so in a healthy and sustainable manner.

      As leaders people entrust us with their most valuable asset—their time—it is incumbent on all of us in positions of authority and influence to step up to the task and take care of them. That starts by learning how to take care of yourself. I hope you will find this book as helpful as I have in providing guidance on the most effective ways to do that.

      Introduction

      Despite the fact that there are hundreds, if not thousands, of books on the subject of leadership, the truth is that good leaders remain far too rare. I have had the opportunity to work for a few great leaders and, unfortunately, many more toxic ones. A key reason why leadership proves so challenging for so many is that we overcomplicate things. Over the decades, I have developed a leadership philosophy that is simple, effective, and easy to understand and implement. Given how badly our country and world need good leaders, I feel it’s time to share my philosophy in the hope that it will help you lead well, effectively supporting and guiding those you influence.

      In the book The Cathedral Within, Bill Shore said the definition of leadership is simple: helping others get to a place they can’t get to on their own. Leadership is a verb, not a noun, and requires action—lots of action. Leadership starts at home—with learning how to lead yourself first, and then applying a strategy this book presents to lead others. Great leadership is authentic, deeply personal, and sustainable.

      I believe that the key to leading well comes down to ten timeless principles—The Lead Well 10—which I’ve successfully put into practice in the three major chapters of my life: the military, the business world, and as a philanthropist and nonprofit leader.

      As a member of the US Navy’s Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) or bomb disposal community, I led small, highly trained teams on thousands of high-risk missions to disarm or safely detonate unexploded ordnance, landmines, and improvised explosive devices (IEDs). I made more than 1,000 parachute jumps and as many underwater dives during my twenty-one years of military service and served as an instructor at EOD schools in both the United States and the United Kingdom, responsible for training thousands of US and international military personnel in bomb disposal. In 2002, I retired as a Master Chief Petty Officer, the Navy’s highest enlisted rank.

      In the decade that followed, I became a serial entrepreneur. I founded two for-profit companies and two nonprofit organizations.

      The first company, A-T Solutions, began in my garage in

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