The Five-Week Leadership Challenge: 35 Action Steps to Become the Leader You Were Meant to Be

Wall Street Journal BestsellerDevelop and expand your innate leadership abilities through daily exercises and challenges designed to help you grow into the leader you want to be and prepare you or the job you were made to have.A recent Harvard Business Review article outlining a study of over 17,000 leaders found that although, on average, people begin to supervise others at age 30, most do not start to receive formal leadership training until their forties.   Don't wait for training that doesn't come until it's too late. The Five-Week Leadership Challenge is an invaluable guide to help any aspiring leader begin a daily practice of exercises and challenges designed to develop and expand your innate leadership ability as quickly as possible.  Patrick Leddin has served as a U.S. Army airborne, infantry, and ranger-qualified officer, founded and ran successful businesses, and trained thousands of leaders. In The Five-Week Leadership Challenge, Leddin shows you how to quickly build standout leadership skills so that when the next opportunity comes along, you're the only person for the job.   The Five-Week Leadership Challenge:Includes 35 daily challenges designed to quickly develop standout leadership skills.Outlines the leadership habits you can practice regularly that get you noticed-and promoted, based on Leddin's experience training and consulting thousands of leaders all over the world.Encourages you to share your completion of the leadership challenge on social media to exponentially expand your networking opportunities and receive bonus content and access to additional author tools. Review 'I have spent my career working with some of the best leaders in the world. I have seen what makes some excel while others struggle. I'm confident that taking on Patrick's The Five-Week Leadership Challenge and applying his ideas in your life will make you a leader that people choose to follow.' -- Joel Peterson, former Chairman of JetBlue Airways; Founder of Peterson Partners; Professor at Stanford Graduate School of Business'The Five-Week Leadership Challenge isn't just a leadership book. It's a self-development workshop, great for both new and experienced leaders. If you want to improve your team's performance immediately, read this book.' -- Dorie Clark, Author of Reinventing You; Faculty at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business'As a former U.S. Army Infantry Officer and Ranger, serving with Patrick and watching him lead others firsthand, to my current role as CEO of Skullcandy--I embrace the importance of developing great leaders of character. Patrick's words will inspire and challenge you to take your leadership to the next level.' -- Jason Hodell, CEO of Skullcandy'Having spent a lifetime working with the best leaders in the world, I'm convinced that the lessons in The Five-Week Leadership Challenge can help you to achieve positive, lasting change in your life.' -- Marshall Goldsmith, New York Times #1 best-selling author of Triggers, Mojo, and What Got You Here Won’t Get You There'Creating a great culture begins with having great leaders who foster an environment where everyone believes what they do matters. Patrick's daily challenges, over five weeks, help you to become such a leader. Students of leadership,?like you, will love and study this book!' -- Chester Elton, bestselling author of The Carrot Principle, All In, and Leading with Gratitude'Patrick's storytelling abilities make this book engaging, but it's his pragmatic lessons that will transform how you lead yourself and others. I especially love 'Explore Passion' and 'Understand Relationships' because these two factors lead all kinds of leaders to true fulfillment at work, at home and in our communities.' -- Paul L. Corona, MBA, EdD, Clinical Professor of Leadership at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management'Creating a culture of true belonging where people can emb