The Discover Your True North Fieldbook

The Discover Your True North Fieldbook
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A personal guide for becoming an authentic leader

Whether you are just starting your leadership journey or leading a large organization, The Discover Your True North Fieldbook will help you find your leadership purpose, that internal Compass that provides direction and keeps you oriented—your True North. Through a series of reflective exercises, this Fieldbook helps you become a better leader by learning to be a more authentic one.

This Fieldbook both personalizes and unlocks the central lessons of its companion book, Discover Your True North by Bill George. It shares the most powerful insights that coauthors Nick Craig, Bill George, and Scott Snook have learned from helping more than 10,000 leaders discover and live up to their fullest potential. Each chapter contains potent exercises that help you mine your life story for deep insights and important patterns. As you work your way through these reflections, you will gain a clearer sense of who you are and why you lead—the essence of an authentic leader.

We offer an identity-based approach to leader development. Rather than telling you how to lead, the Fieldbook guides you through an intimate process of personal discovery. By understanding your life story and sharpening your personal narrative, you will discover the unique leader you were meant to be. On the way, you will work through the same lessons taught to MBA students at Harvard Business School, as well as senior executives in many Fortune 100 companies.

The Discover Your True North Fieldbook will help you:

Become more self-aware and self-accepting

Locate that sweet spot at the intersection of your passions and strengths

Identify and lead from your core values when it matters most

Build a robust support team to guide you through difficult times

Discover your leadership purpose, the essence of who you are, your True North

Stay grounded by integrating all aspects of your life

Grow as a global leader

Help others become authentic leaders

To help you actually live your True North, this Fieldbook concludes by offering a rigorous, step-by-step process that generates a customized, behaviorally anchored Personal Leadership Development Plan. This plan not only summarizes and integrates everything you've learned completing this Fieldbook, but does so in a way that supports immediate action and impact. Welcome to your journey toward authentic leadership. Welcome to your True North.

Visit www.DiscoverYourTrueNorth.org to learn more.

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The Discover Your True North Fieldbook
A Personal Guide to Becoming an Authentic Leader
Second Edition
Nick Craig
Bill George
Scott Snook
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Copyright © 2015 by Bill George, Nick Craig, and Scott Snook. All rights reserved.

Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.

Published simultaneously in Canada.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:

George, Bill (William W.)

The discover your true north fieldbook: a personal guide to becoming an authentic leader / Nick Craig, Bill George, Scott Snook. – Revised and updated.

pages cm

Includes index.

ISBN 978–1–119–10355–4 (pbk.); ISBN 978–1–119–10356–1 (ePDF); ISBN 978–1–119–10357–8 (ePub)

1. Leadership. 2. Organizational effectiveness. I. Craig, Nick, 1960- II. Snook, Scott A., 1958- III. Title.

HD57.7.G458143 2015

658.4′092 – dc23

2015013777

DEDICATION

Bill George dedicates this book to his colleagues Nick Craig and Scott Snook, who have devoted their lives to enabling leaders to discover their True North.

Nick Craig dedicates this book to the authentic leaders in his life, who showed him the way by being just themselves.

Scott Snook dedicates this book to his wife Kathi, and their five children, Sean, Kyle, Megan, Robby, and Jessica.

PREFACE

WHY AN UPDATED FIELDBOOK?

Since writing the original version of this fieldbook, we have had the privilege of working with over 10,000 individuals on their journey to becoming more authentic leaders. Our experience has ranged from teaching the Authentic Leadership Development MBA course at Harvard Business School to running custom True North programs with senior executives with global responsibilities.

In the process, we have learned a great deal about how people discover and implement their True North. Having worked with many of these individuals over an extended period of time, we have come to understand their long-term journey and what it takes to stay the course.

As Bill said in the Preface of the first edition:

“Leadership matters. It matters a great deal – to our organizations and institutions, to the people who work in them, and to the people who are served by them. For our society to function effectively, we need authentic leaders who can encourage people to perform at their best and step up and lead themselves.”

“I wrote True North because I have a passion to see more people in all walks of life lead authentically and because I wanted to help people like you discover your authentic leadership.”

In conjunction with Discover Your True North, we have amassed our insights and learning to create a significantly updated guide to assist you on your journey to authentic leadership. As you navigate the unchartered territory of the twenty-first century, we hope our fieldbook assists you in becoming a highly effective – and authentic – leader, one who follows your True North and stays the course!



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