Successful Business Leadership: A Visionary Perspective

By Carlos Dean

Transformational Business Leadership

The world of business is changing. A shift in consciousness, emerging technology and new generations of flexible, aspirational human beings mean that new opportunities are all around us.

Finding new ways of working is essential – to survive, and to bring about the powerful, positive change those opportunities represent. To succeed against a backdrop of rapid change requires high-level relationship networks and fully-functioning teams; it requires a high degree of self-awareness and a deep understanding of our own needs and the needs of others. And more than this: it requires mastery of the universal laws that govern all existence and all human endeavour.

Carlos Dean is a leadership alchemist who has been exploring the deep mysteries of leadership for 30 years. In Successful Business Leadership, he provides a blueprint for success in the new world of business. Through exploring 24 essential elements of leadership, you will develop the skills you need to lead your organisation to a new kind of success.

The world of business is changing. Are you ready to change with it?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Carlos Dean
• Release date: May 14, 2015
• ISBN: 9781311473097

Carlos Dean

Carlos Dean is a transformational business leadership coach currently delivering one on one coaching, in-house development and public leadership training courses in Oxfordshire, England.

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Carlos Dean is a trail blazer for bringing humanity back to business. He encourages and empowers leaders to be themselves; broadens their thinking and drives them to grow their businesses fuelled by purpose and passion not pounds, shillings and pence. If you are looking for a refreshing, edgy and challenging approach to leadership development, then Carlos is your man – intuitive, insightful, supportive and sometimes unconventional.

Anne O'Reilly, coaching360.co.uk

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Successful Business Leadership

A Visionary Perspective

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Carlos Dean

First published in the United Kingdom in 2014

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

To Maite Alegre, my friend, my partner and my soul-mate, thank you for putting up with me despite the hardship I’ve put you through and for continuing to love me even through the times when I couldn’t love you back, because I didn’t know how. You restored my faith in humanity and gave me the courage to trust again. Without your support this book would not have been written and without your unfailing belief in me I could never have endured the hardship I have experienced, to lead others towards what I have discovered.

To my mother, Natividad Lopez, thank you for loving me even in your absence from this Earth.

To Maria Garcia Mendez, my second mother, thank you for taking on the impossible task of bringing me up when my mother had died; for always being here and for never shying away, even through the darkest moments of my life.

To my father, Derek Dean, thank you for teaching me the importance of being true to yourself even at the cost of disappointing others.

To my siblings: Linda, Raquel, Miguel and Gustavo thank you for being my allies and teachers, each in your own unique way.

To my children, Daniel, Manuela and Shade, thank you for constantly reminding me of how much more I have yet to learn.

To my clients, Mike Jennings, Timon Colegrove, Patrick Knopp, Paul Jenks, Mark Salisbury, Nusrat Shah, Jayne Woodley, Peter O’Connell, David Hawkins, Richard Tawn, Jon Gibson, Jason Fielder, Mike Haigh, Graeme Monk, Dawn Farrell, Roger Davies, Matt Plant, Stuart Webster, Nathan Cantell, Joseph Taylor, Richard Bailey, John Platts, and many others, thank you for allowing me to coach you towards becoming the best leaders you can be.

To Lesley Hart, thank you for achieving the impossible task of communicating my work to the world in design and brand.

To Jennifer Manson, thank you for capturing my message and bringing it to the page so that it can go out to a wider audience than I can reach in person.

And to countless others who have connected with me along my journey and helped me to become the leader I am today, thank you.

Table of Contents

Foreword – by Jennifer Manson

Who this book is for

Where we are

Things to be aware of

Chapter 1 What is business really about in a changing cultural environment?

Chapter 2 Authentic entrepreneurship

Chapter 3 Understanding intelligence IQ, EQ, SQ

Chapter 4 The strength of virtue – characteristics of great leadership

Chapter 5 The true purpose of generosity

Chapter 6 Uncovering an authentic vision for your business

Chapter 7 Understanding and accepting the dark side of human nature

Chapter 8 Developing an entrepreneurial mindset in your people

Chapter 9 Insight and the role it plays in business

Chapter 10 Unleashing the power of your personal values

Chapter 11 How to grow your people beyond their role

Chapter 12 Power

Chapter 13 Overcoming subservience

Chapter 14 Evolving beyond our obsession with earning a living

Chapter 15 Using team meetings to keep the vision alive

Chapter 16 Enrolment, motivation and ownership

Chapter 17 The challenge for larger organisations

Chapter 18 Leadership beyond your business: what next?

Chapter 19 Becoming a social entrepreneur

Chapter 20 Servant leadership and the new world order

Chapter 21 Identifying your higher purpose and finding your legacy

Chapter 22 The rewards: joy, fulfilment and enlightenment

Chapter 23 Leading as a disciple

Chapter 24 Sending it back – developing excellence in the world

Afterword

About the author

Foreword

by Jennifer Manson

The world is changing. We have more freedom, more choice, more possibilities than the generations before us; and we have more advanced technology to bring those possibilities into reality.

The world is getting smaller as we can reach more people with greater ease; and as it gets smaller it gets more personal, people expect a greater level of connection. We can hide behind convention if we choose, but increasingly people aren’t fooled, and they aren’t interested if they can’t see the real us.

There is still part of the business world that denies this, that continues to operate on the old rules, that continues to believe business is not personal. A growing contingent, however, have recognised how the wind is blowing. They see the change that is coming, that is here, and they are changing along with it.

In a way they are happier. This new way of being fits them better. Perhaps you are one of them. The difficulty is, knowing how to operate when you are changing faster than your environment is changing. How do you incorporate these new behaviours and beliefs into the old structure? Whom can you talk to about these things?

When I first met Carlos, I recognised with relief someone who was leading the way, guiding the new breed of business leaders through the transition into this new world. We need him, and partly so we can identify each other.

Carlos Dean’s leadership philosophy, embodied in this book and in his leadership programme, provides a blueprint to redefine professionalism, to redefine how we interact with each other and the people we lead; and to redefine connection within the world of business. Connection is essential, and not yet the norm. This book guides us through integrating that essential element into our day-to-day (working) lives.

I foresee this book will become a code of sorts – a symbol. When you spot a copy on the desk of another business owner, manager or aspirational employee, you will know you have common ground; you will know you can begin an uncommon conversation with that person and – at least partially – be understood. When you see this book, you will recognise a space of safety within which you can speak.

My belief is, over time – and not too much time – this will become the norm. In the meantime, I am grateful to Carlos, and others like him, who take the risk, take the leap, create themselves as vulnerable in their early speaking of this new truth, and lead the way for the rest of us to follow. The new world is a world of vision, purpose, insight, connection. In Carlos’ words, a world of community and unity, extending beyond the arena of business to encompass the globe.

It has been a privilege to work on this book with Carlos, to take his message and bring it to the page. His message is not one of facts and information; it is about shaping an evolutionary change of mind. At times, the content is almost hypnotic. It washes over and through, clearing out previous thoughts. This is part of his magic, moving us from where we have been, a place