Becoming a Self-reliant Leader
Fortune 500 leadership advisor and former Green Beret Jan Rutherford and leadership development consultant and former assistant professor at the United States Military Academy Jacquie Jordan have created the ultimate prescriptive handbook on what it takes to design and lead energized and effective teams in an increasingly complex and uncertain global landscape.
Crafted from Rutherford’s Crucible® Expeditions wilderness experience, Becoming a Self-Reliant Leader is a practical guide that explores each step of the Crucible journey and how its lessons can be applied to today’s leadership challenges.
These lessons are based around the three pillars of Self-Reliant Leadership®—leading yourself, leading others, and leading an organization—and include how to:
- Develop courage, curiosity, and grit to confront adversity and lead your team to success
- Select the right people for your team—people who are selfless, adventurous, and heroic
- Create the right direction, pace, and tone to achieve any goal
- Design and maintain a positive and energized work environment
- Build mutual, genuine trust among team members and fellow leaders
Whether they’re leaping across icy chasms or scaling slabs of rock, Crucible Expedition participants are pushed to their mental and physical limits—and emerge on the other side renewed and more durable than ever before, with a new understanding of how overcoming hardship refines our skills and accelerates our growth.
This compilation of lessons and stories from past expeditions offers business leaders more than just an exciting read—it’s a proven recipe to creating and sustaining high-performing teams.
The Littlest Green Beret
“The Littlest Green Beret” represents a small felt hat, Jan’s stature, and all those seemingly insurmountable goals. We all face adversity amidst physical, mental, and emotional challenges, and this book is about becoming self-reliant in terms of creating a powerful future. It can also become your battle plan for addressing life’s challenges and the key to unlocking the leader within you.
Through Jan’s own stories of adversity, he conveys how leadership development can occur every day if you’re observant, reflective, and determined. This book provides an overview of practical leadership principles for managing oneself, creating a personal strategy, and effectively engaging others to assist you with your own developmental objectives.
By exploring what effective leaders actually do and how they do it, you will learn the principles of personal effectiveness and how visionary leadership can develop and inspire people to achieve more than they thought they could. Leadership can be an illusion of control, but changing your perspective on everyday experiences can provide inspirational learning opportunities for personal growth and development.
With contributions from senior military, business and government leaders, to Entrepreneurs, international sports elite, and CEOs of multi-million dollar businesses, you'll discover a collection of heartfelt and engaging stories of self-reflection and inspiration.
In this book, you'll learn from first-hand experience on leadership and team organisation, but you'll also look deep within on how to; find your purpose, deal with imposter syndrome, be kind to yourself and create a safe space for courageous conversations. It's full of advice and tips on helping you to create your best life!
'Purposeful People' is ultimately about sharing; sharing knowledge that in some way may uplift and motivate its readers, and sharing proceeds of its sales with four important charities. This book was created to support charities that are closest to our hearts: Children's Cancer; Military Veterans & Families; Mental and Physical Health; and Homelessness.