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High Altitude Leadership: What the World's Most Forbidding Peaks Teach Us About Success (Hardcover 2008)
April 2009
By Chris Warner and Don Schmincke
Climbing-guru, speaker, entrepreneur, Emmy-nominated filmmaker, and now author Chris Warner has been teaching leadership and group development for over 27 years. With over 150 international mountaineering expeditions under his belt, he writes about his leadership experiences helping others climb the most difficult peaks in the world. It takes Leadership Skills to ensure your expedition gets to the top; how they survive makes a riveting and fearless story. It also translates into perceptive concepts about becoming a successful leader in the boardroom and at 26,000 feet.
With management consultant, author, and leadership scientist Don Schmincke (head of The SAGA Leadership Institute), High Altitude Leadership explains how to tame your fears - something every leader needs to do themselves. Warner and Schmincke also delve into the most demoralizing 7 dangers that plague today’s businesses. The stories of Chris's expeditions reveal the thrill of climbing along with the risks: injury, callousness, bad decisions, and even death. Through each gripping climbing story, Warner demonstrates real-life effective leadership skills, while Schmincke relates organizational leadership to a business environment.
Each chapter confronts you with a survival challenge for your type of leadership style, along with a summary of the key leader points and how you can take life or death decisions into becoming a successful leader. Not all the leadership examples are positive; many other climbers in Warner's story exhibit selfish, dangerous, unproductive, and dysfunctional behaviors that can destroy a team. Schmincke uses these examples to show how leadership styles must work towards a common goal. Otherwise it prevents people from achieving a positive desired outcome for more than just one person.
High Altitude Leadership folds enchanting mountain encounters into the business world of effective leadership, that has made this book a bestseller. We can't recommend this book enough; it shows how effective leadership skills make very personal and dangerous situations that much easier.
Leaders who read this book should also focus on our topic area Leadership Challenges, and with our article Visionary Leader: A Leader Who Anticipates.
High Altitude Leadership is available via Amazon.
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