Leadership Without Arrival - by Mark Buck (Paperback)

About the Book

Leadership done properly rarely produces a sense of arrival. It produces the next problem, often carrying the cost of the last solution. Mark Buck writes about deciding without certainty, building trust and keeping a culture honest.

Book Synopsis

Leadership Without Arrival begins with a deal that nearly didn't complete.

From there it argues that leadership done properly rarely produces a sense of arrival. It produces the next problem, often carrying the cost of the last solution. Most leadership books promise a destination, whether a framework, a set of habits or the moment you finally become the leader you were meant to be. This one starts from the fact that the destination never comes, and that you still have decisions to make on Monday.

Mark Buck has spent more than two decades running businesses, managing people through change and making calls where the evidence ran out before the decision did. This book is what he has learnt from getting things wrong often enough to notice the pattern.

Most of its examples come from financial and professional services, where clients are anxious, advisers can be territorial and the regulator is never far away. Written for founders, executives and senior managers who already carry responsibility, it covers how to

• Make sound decisions when there is no clearly right answer
• Hold ambition and responsibility together without letting either consume the other
• Build trust that survives a bad quarter
• Lead people through mistakes, including your own
• Deal with high performers whose results hide the damage they cause
• Build a culture that stays honest when the founder is no longer watching every room
• Stay capable of the job after the job has changed you

Leadership isn't something you achieve once. You do it again on Monday.

Review Quotes

"A leadership guide filled with insight and inspiration for both mature and aspiring leaders." AEB Reviews, Reedsy Discovery (Recommended Read)