PRAISE FOR CRACKING THE LEADERSHIP CODE

"CRACKING THE LEADERSHIP CODE is a great book for those starting out on the leadership journey or managers who need a refresher in what connected, effective leadership really means."
--Daniel H. Pink, author of WHEN and DRIVE

"Leaders need to continuously improve their fluency in the language of leadership. Cracking the Leadership Code is a magnificent guide to help you translate leadership ideas into action. It manages to be smart, engaging, practical, and authentic all at the same time. If you're a leader who wants to grow your effectiveness and impact, get Cracking!"
--Marshall Goldsmith, New York Times #1 bestselling author of Triggers, Mojo, and What Got You Here Won't Get You There

"One of the most practical books on the planet when it comes to leadership and how to make a difference."
--Barry Z. Posner, PhD, Professor of Leadership, Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University, coauthor, The Leadership Challenge

"The pace of change and the ever-present threat of disruption pose daunting challenges for business leaders. Cracking the Leadership Code offers clear, real-life advice to help navigate these tumultuous times. Seasoned CEOs and first-time managers will benefit from its practical wisdom."
--Frits Dirk van Paasschen, former CEO of Starwood Hotels & Resorts and The Coors Brewing Company and bestselling author of The Disruptors' Feast

"How to lead well shouldn't be a mystery. Cracking the Leadership Code lives up to its title--it shares a wealth of real-world information that's valuable for leaders at all levels in any organization."
--Sydney Finkelstein, Professor of Leadership at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and author of the bestselling book Superbosses

"Cracking the Leadership Code is a valuable and enlightened guide for anyone with the courage and passion to lead with an open mind and open heart. Alain Hunkins writes from rich personal experience with conviction and credibility."

--Danny Meyer, Founder and CEO, Union Square Hospitality Group

"Cracking the Leadership Code offers a refreshing, practical approach to leadership that will help you develop both personally and professionally."

--Dr. Tasha Eurich, New York Times bestselling author of Insight and Bankable Leadership

"Superb book! Cracking the Leadership Code does much to simplify leadership for all of us who practice it--and teach it. This book will stimulate your desire to lead as it builds your capacity to lead. Hunkins' framing of leadership as Connection, Communication, Collaboration is among the most useful structures I've seen used in books that develop leaders. I enjoyed every minute and every page of this book."

--Thomas A. Kolditz, Brigadier General, U.S. Army (ret), Executive Director, Doerr Institute for New Leaders, Rice University

Leading well is difficult. It's disturbingly common for people to work in organizations with bad leaders. Feedback from employees shows they seek a new type of leader, better equipped to navigate the complexity and pace of our digital 21^st century. Leaders who know how to lead from purpose, connect with empathy, communicate with authenticity, and collaborate with transparency. This new type of leader is not born, but made. If you're committed, you can learn and apply specific tools, improve how you lead, and develop the skills and knowledge to make yourself into such a leader. Cracking the Leadership Code is designed to shorten your leadership learning curve and accelerate your leadership growth. Drawing from decades of fieldwork, author Alain Hunkins provides real world tools and insights for achieving exceptional leadership. This practical, straightforward guide enables you to improve employee engagement, increase productivity, reduce employee turnover, expand your influence, minimize stress, maximize your work and life satisfaction, and much more.

Divided into four parts, Cracking the Leadership Code guides you through each of the essential principles of strong leadership as you learn concepts and gain tools that you can apply immediately in your work for tangible results. You are first introduced to the framework of the Master Keys, Connection, Communication, and Collaboration, and presented with a brief history of organizational leadership. You will understand the cultural and societal forces that caused Old-School leadership to stop working, and why leaders are struggling to keep pace with changing times. The second part of the text decrypts the soft skill of Connection, including how to best develop empathy and build leadership credibility. Next, you will uncover the six keys to immediately improve perhaps the most difficult part of leadership: Communication. In Part Four, you take a deep dive into Collaboration, learning about motivation and how to avoid the common traps that leaders fall into when trying to motivate others. You'll find out how to become a motivational choice architect, an innovative model for motivational leadership designed to enable high performance. The final chapters explain the employee experience and how you can influence it to improve teamwork and collaboration. Each chapter features a resources section that distills the big ideas, while numerous tools, tips, and techniques for designing and implementing your own personal leadership development plan are found throughout.

Breaking any type of code, particularly one that deals with human behavior and communication, can be frustrating work filled with missteps, mistakes, and a lot of trial and error. But with patience, hard work, and a genuine desire to lead people well, Cracking the Leadership Code will help you decipher the secrets of effective leadership and become the leader you've always aspired to be.

Become the effective, proactive leader you aspire to be with this practical tool kit for leading people and organizations

Yes, you can learn the skills to effectively lead people, organizations, and employees. With the right motivation and knowledge, you can be a leader who knows what it takes to succeed. Throughout his extensive experience in training leaders, author Alain Hunkins discovered that many leaders shared a common trait. They were mainly focused on what they were doing but not so focused on how they were doing it, especially when it came to working with other people. By strengthening their leadership capabilities, they could become trusted leaders within their organization, improve employee communications, and build bridges across hierarchies. Cracking the Leadership Code shares the valuable principles and practices that Hunkins developed and refined during the 20+ years he's worked with leaders.

When you crack the code, you'll have a new operating model for organizational leadership that will help your teams thrive in a 21st century economy.

• Discover the brain science behind leading people
• Get inspired by real life leadership stories
• Use a practical leadership tool kit to become a better leader
• Learn how to communicate, influence, and persuade others, more effectively than ever before

With this book as a resource, you'll have a new perspective, a new framework, and new tools at your disposal, readily available to guide your leadership. You'll learn to establish proactive, leader-follower relationships. To do this, you'll use the interconnected elements of Connection, Communication, and Collaboration.

When you learn from the author's insightful experiences working with organizations around the world, you can accelerate your leadership development and become the leader you've always aspired to be.