IMAGINE RUNNING A BUSINESS WHERE EVERYONE IS INSPIRED TO LEAD
ACTIVATE PERSONAL INITIATIVE
A call to ignite change and achieve greatness
Running a successful business is full of challenges. Especially during times of transition. But when your people are motivated, inspired, and determined to give their very best, you can achieve great things.
In Circle of Impact, Ed Brenegar shows how anyone can develop the personal initiative needed to create real impact both in their own lives and within their organizations.
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MAKE CHANGE HAPPEN
If any of these situations sound familiar, Ed will help you find the clarity you need:
- Your business has reached a plateau, but you want to grow
- You are unhappy with your current business performance
- You wish your people could take the initiative to resolve problems
- Your business needs to address a particular challenge or make the most of a new opportunity
- Your business is undergoing, or approaching, a period of transition
If this sounds like your organization, don’t worry; you’re not alone. Every business faces challenges. But when you empower those around you to lead, you’ll ignite change, overcome difficulties and accomplish more than you ever thought possible.
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- Discover the 12 transition points that show you’re ready for change
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Speaker. Author. Coach.
A leader for leaders, Dr. Ed Brenegar is a speaker, author, coach, and a recognised authority on leadership and transformation. He works with individuals and organizations, helping people take the personal initiative to improve their professional and personal lives.
In addition to his speaking and coaching activities, Ed is the author of Circle of Impact, a powerful new book that redefines the concept of leadership.
LEADING FOR IMPACT BLOG
How do leaders create the impact that matters?
I explore the answers.
Where Did Trust Go?
When a book or essay appears in print, it is never all that could be said. It is a distillation and essence of the whole topic.
For my short book, Where Did Trust Go?, the instigating moment was a question from a Nairobi businessman. He asked me following a presentation to his group last February,
“What are we to do about corruption in government and business?”
At that point in time, I did not have an answer. I do now. It is found in this little book.
Let me describe what I see that led me to write. Let’s look at this through the lens of the Circle of Impact in terms of three problems.
Seeing Below The Surface of Things
None of us see below the surface of things. We fool ourselves into believing that we understand what is going on, when we only see the shiny surface of things. As Paul Simon wrote in his great 1960s pop hit, The Boxer, “People believe what they want to believe, and disregard this rest.” If seeing is believing, then we only believe in the appearance of what we see, not the substance of it.
The structure of the modern organization is collapsing. It is crumbling from within. The structure is no longer adequate for the fast-paced world of change that we live in. In many respects, its persistence is an act of denying reality.
Professor Joseph Tainter describes collapse as “a rapid simplification of an overly complex system.” It happens because societies become good at solving problems. As a result, greater complexity occurs. What does this complexity look like?
Impact Starts With Me
In September 2018, after Circle of Impact was published, I hit the road to promote sales of the book. I spent the next year talking to people standing in bookstores, sitting at bars, in laundromats, parking lots, and hotel lobbies. These conversations went something like this.
“Oh, so you are the author of this book?”
“Yes.”
“What’s your book about?”
“It is a book for people and organizations that are in transition.”
Then they would give me a surprised look and say, “Oh. … Well. … That describes me.”
Then a conversation would happen where they would tell me a story about who they are, their life experience, and why they felt they were in transition.
I found that people first feel that they are in transition. But they lack a way to talk about it. This feeling rises deep from within themselves. This is especially true if they have either worked in an environment described above where they are simply hired to perform specific tasks or have been out of the workforce for a while taking care of family needs, whether children or elderly parents.
Of all the ways that I could describe the book, speaking about transition resonated most significantly with people. This isn’t just personal. It is also something happening to our society, our communities, and every organization within it. It is a global reality felt at the most intimate level of our lives. It is also clear that some people are better suited or prepared to make transitions in their lives, while for others it is a very tough, hard experience.