The Radical Leap: A Personal Lesson in Extreme Leadership » (1st Edition)

Steve Farber is the former Vice President and Official Mouthpiece of the Tom Peters Company and is currently President of Extreme Leadership, Inc., an organization devoted to changing the world through the cultivation and development of Extreme Leaders in the business community. In this capacity, he has coached hundreds of clients at such companies as Sun Microsystems, Charles Schwab, Clorox, Intel, Kraft Foods, American Medical Association, Wells Fargo, and Disney. Steve lives in San Diego.

In The Radical Leap, we meet Steve, a leadership consultant who is intrigued and challenged by an enigmatic man named Edg, from whom he learns the concept of LEAP (cultivate Love, generate Energy, inspire Audacity and provide Proof). Steve is asked to help a friend, Janice, overcome a leadership conflict with her new boss at the biotech company where she works. In his effort to locate the charismatic former CEO of the company, Steve is led on a journey that ultimately revitalizes the company after it undergoes a radical and successful leadership transformation. The Radical Leap is an inspirational tale based on author Steve Farber's 14 years of experience in helping people become extreme leaders. An extreme leader, says Farber, is one who is not only unafraid of challenges, but actively seeks them out. Like extreme athletes who thrive on adventure, extreme leaders are willing to take risks while demonstrating high levels of passion, determination, and dedication. Their enthusiasm becomes so infectious that it motivates others who see it in their leaders' actions, not just their words. A business parable that reads like a novel, The Radical Leap is filled with vivid, fully realized, and eccentric characters, crazy plot twists, honest and believable conversations about leadership, and most important, an innovative program for leaders to inspire and engage their companies.

Soundview Executive Book Summaries

Steve Farber, a leadership "evangelist" and a former vice president of The Tom Peters Co., has written a modern parable that begins when he meets a surfer named Edg on a Southern California beach. From there, Edg's leadership lessons propel Farber into a week of adventures and epiphanies where he regains his excitement and passion about leadership. Throughout, he learns about Extreme Leadership, where cultivating love, generating energy, inspiring audacity, and providing proof add up to the "Radical LEAP" a leader must take to improve an enterprise. Copyright © 2004 Soundview Executive Book Summaries