THE NEW LEADERSHIP
MANIFESTO:
CREATING AN ORGANIZATION WITH LASTING
POSITIVE IMPACT
Building Excellent, Ethical, And Enduring
Organizations
The Triple Crown of thoroughbred horseracing
is known worldwide as the most elusive championship in all of
sports. In business there is also an elusive triple crown – the
goal of building and sustaining organizations that are excellent (high
performance), ethical (do the right thing), and enduring (stand the test of
time).
In TRIPLE CROWN
LEADERSHIP: Building Excellent, Ethical, And Enduring
Organizations, Bob Vanourek and Gregg Vanourek draw on interviews with
leaders at sixty-one organizations in eleven countries, including Google,
Zappos, eBay, Infosys, Cisco, Mayo Clinic, KIPP, Spotify, and Xerox, to reveal
the standard they identify as triple crown leadership. In
addition, they discuss their own experiences in the corporate, nonprofit, and
academic worlds, and use analogies and examples from the Kentucky Derby,
Preakness, and Belmont Stakes to show how organizations the world over can
achieve greatness.
Bob Vanourek has served as CEO of New York
Stock Exchange companies during his thirty-year business career and Gregg
Vanourek currently teaches at the Stockholm School of Entrepreneurship and the
Royal Institute of Technology (see full bios below). In TRIPLE
CROWN LEADERSHIP, the Vanoureks show that “triple
crown organizations” (excellent, ethical, and enduring) require a new brand of
leadership. “One of the primary tasks of leadership is to get
results – ideally, exceptional results,” the authors
state. “However, in the pursuit of results too many leaders cut
ethical corners, focus too much on the short term, or engage in unsustainable
behavior. Leaders seeking to build excellent, ethical, and
enduring organizations engage people more, gain their loyalty and creativity,
and build mutually beneficial relationships with other
stakeholders.”
The first half of the book delivers the five
practices of triple crown leadership:
Head and
Heart: Most organizations focus on knowledge, skills, and
experience – “head” issues. Triple crown leaders, by contrast,
recruit for all that plus character, emotional intelligence, and “fit” with the
culture of the organization – people with both “head” and “heart.”
The Colors: Triple
crown leaders employ their organization’s shared purpose, values, and vision as
sacrosanct “colors” to represent their quest, infusing them into the DNA of the
organization.
Steel and
Velvet: Triple crown leadership requires the judgment to flex
between the hard and soft edges of leadership, depending on the situation and
the people, without being inconsistent.
Stewards: Inside
triple crown organizations, stewards develop and protect the organization’s
colors and culture of character. They work on the enterprise, not
just in it.
Alignment: Triple
crown leaders align organizations to achieve peak performance.
The second half of the book answers critical
questions that arise in special circumstances:
Turnarounds: What
must leaders do differently during transformational turnarounds and
crises?
Startups: What
can entrepreneurs do to position their ventures for high performance, integrity,
and impact?
Social Impact: How
can organizations achieve a positive social impact – on employees, customers,
shareholders, suppliers, communities, the environment, and the world – even as
they achieve exceptional performance?
Snapshots: How
can leaders assess progress in building excellent, ethical, and enduring
organizations?
The authors also shine a spotlight on
organizations that have broken down, revealing why so many companies have gone
from great to grim, and how to avoid that fate.
TRIPLE CROWN LEADERSHIP calls leaders into the starting gate with a
new race plan for building excellent, ethical, and enduring
organizations. Managers, aspiring leaders, and leaders already in
the race will gain valuable knowledge they can use to lead more
effectively.
About the authors
Bob Vanourek has served as CEO of New York Stock
Exchange companies during his thirty-year business
career. As CEO (now retired), Bob guided Sensormatic (a $1 billion
security company)
and Recognition Equipment (a $250 million optical character recognition
company) through
successful turnarounds. He has served as Group Vice President and
Division President of
two major divisions of Pitney Bowes (a $5 billion mail stream company) and Vice
President, General Manager of two divisions of Avery International (a $6 billion
adhesives company). Vanourek has
led businesses and teams that have won numerous local, state, and national
awards, including a
state-level Malcolm Baldrige Quality Prize and the Shingo Prize for
Manufacturing Excellence (shortly after he
left).
He is a dynamic and popular speaker on
leadership and has written several book chapters and articles. He
has taught leadership at the University of Denver and Colorado Mountain
College and
is Chairman Emeritus of the Vail Leadership Institute. Vanourek
has served on the boards of and consults
with numerous businesses and community organizations. He is a
Baker Scholar graduate of
the Harvard Business School, a magna cum laude graduate of Princeton University,
and served as
an officer in the U.S. Army. Bob Vanourek lives in
Colorado.
Gregg Vanourek is coauthor of three books: Triple Crown
Leadership, Life Entrepreneurs, and Charter Schools in Action. He has written several book
chapters and reports, as well as numerous articles for leading media outlets,
including Harvard Business Review blogs and Washington
Times columns. Vanourek teaches at the Stockholm School of
Entrepreneurship and the Royal Institute of
Technology. Previously, he taught at the Euromed School of
Management, University of Denver, and Colorado Mountain
College. He cofounded New Mountain Ventures (an entrepreneurial
leadership development company) and served as Senior Vice President of School
Development for K12 (a market-leading online education company, NYSE: LRN)
during its startup years. In addition, he helped to launch and
served as Vice President for Programs at the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation (an
education reform foundation) and research fellow at the Hudson Institute (a
think tank).
Vanourek is a featured speaker and
consultant for clients worldwide. He is a graduate of the Yale
School of Management, London School of Economics and Political Science, and
Claremont McKenna College. He serves on the board of the Vail
Leadership Institute. A native of California, Gregg Vanourek
currently lives in Sweden.
“It’s been more than thirty years since the
sport of kings last saw a Triple Crown. We can’t wait that long
for the triple crown of leadership – the stakes are too high and the need too
urgent.
It’s time to embrace this
vision of lasting, ethical leadership.”
-Daniel H. Pink, bestselling author
of Drive and A Whole New Mind
“A rare combination of deep insight and
helpful research, and an important book. Relevant and
timely.
Smart and helpful guidance for leaders about
today’s pressing problems.”
-Stephen R. Covey and Stephen M. R.
Covey, from the Foreword
TRIPLE CROWN LEADERSHIP
Building Excellent, Ethical, and Enduring
Organizations
By Bob Vanourek and Gregg
Vanourek
Foreword by Stephen R. Covey and Stephen
M.R. Covey
Publisher: McGraw
Hill
Publication date: July
2012
Price: $28.00 /
hardcover
ISBN: 978-0-07-179150-2
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