The Contextual Leader

Adapt, Align, and Accelerate: How Contextual Leadership Transforms Leaders and Organizations

Leadership is contextual.

Many leaders miss out on their teams' full potential because navigating the complex and ever-changing business landscape is more and more challenging. Traditional leadership models often fail to address the intricate interplay of organizational intentions, external factors, and internal dynamics resulting in subpar performance and disengaged teams. As a result, executives find themselves ill equipped to set their organization and leaders up for success in an increasingly complex world.

Drawing upon his decades of experience in corporate leadership training, organizational development, and leadership research, renowned leadership expert Dr. Torben N¸rby succeeded in operationalizing the two critical challenges all leaders face: how to match their leadership to organizational context and how to set up their organization for maximum performance. To be truly effective, leaders must deeply understand the factors influencing their organizations and adapt their leadership accordingly to create the conditions for success. The Contextual Leader offers a groundbreaking framework for understanding and shaping leadership context and provides leaders with a comprehensive tool kit for aligning organizational structures, cultures, and people factors with strategic objectives and the operating model.

In The Contextual Leader, you'll discover:

1. How you translate your organization's purpose, strategy, and operating model into the structures, cultures, and people composition that yield maximum performance.
2. How to identify and leverage 12 critical organizational subcultures to drive empowerment and engagement.
3. Strategies for optimizing leadership approaches and the organizational setup to meet external factors like dynamism, complexity, and risk intensity.
4. Techniques for composing teams with the ideal mix of expertise and diversity.
5. The PIA Cycle methodology for engaging your people in business transformation, continuous learning, and culture change.

Whether you're a seasoned executive looking to refine your leadership perspectives or a rising leader seeking effective management techniques, The Contextual Leader challenges outdated leadership paradigms and equips you with the knowledge to shape your leadership context and drive sustainable success. Filled with real-world examples, practical advice, and insight from respected thought leaders, The Contextual Leader will maximize your impact as a leader and drive significant organizational development.