Strategic Jaywalking: The Secret Sauce to Life & Leadership Excellence

In a world where the pace of change grows ever faster, leaders must find better ways to innovate, create, and adapt. Strategic Jaywalking is a practical, common-sense approach to leadership and life in a world where being at the top of your game leads to success, while inertia risks mediocrity and obsolescence.Having led and coached hundreds of business leaders across the spectrum, Jay McDonald gets leadership from the C-suite to the board room, to the trenches, and now, you can, too. Written in a conversational style, Strategic Jaywalking is a book for young and old, women and men. It's for the aspiring leader as well as the veteran business owner, CEO, or non-profit executive.Jaywalking is a familiar term for pedestrians walking in or crossing a street at a place other than a designated crosswalk, or contrary to a traffic signal or posted rules. Applied to business and life, it is a metaphor for coloring outside the lines and being positively disruptive through innovative thinking.Strategic Jaywalking is about measuring risk and finding ways to think critically in pursuit of novel methods or solutions. It's designed to provoke thought about how we can become our best selves as humans and leaders. Drawing from Jay's observations, experiences, failures (yes), and successes across a varied career, it offers sage advice not just about what you should be thinking, but how.Through vivid stories, it explores the qualities of exceptional humans and leaders, people like Jeff Bezos, Sara Blakely, Albert Einstein, Roberto Goizueta, Steve Jobs, Martin Luther King, Jr., Mother Theresa, and Oprah Winfrey to name a few. Jaywalkers all.The book's take-aways are captured in compelling stories, throughout the short, succinct, topically organized chapters, then summarized into condensed, actionable summaries at each chapter's end, offering a road map for discovery. Perhaps misusing Apple's 1997 command to "Think Different," Strategic Jaywalking is your recipe for "thinking differently" presented by a seasoned executive whom hundreds of business leaders turn to for advice.

• | Author: Jay Mcdonald
• | Publisher: Middleton Mcdonald Group, Inc.
• | Publication Date: Mar 25, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 290 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 057831567X
• | ISBN-13: 9780578315676