Circle of Impact: Taking Personal Initiative to Ignite Change by Ed Brenegar Available for Preorder on Amazon
In his debut book, Dr. Ed Brenegar presents a leadership approach that equips everyone at all levels of an organization to take responsibility to solve problems and innovate new ways of achieving goals. To be released September 18, 2018, Circle of Impact: Taking Personal Initiative to Ignite Change introduces a practical, values-based tool for companies to grow the leadership potential of their people and create a high-trust, agile culture. Preorders are now available on Amazon at https://amzn.to/2KNWPYM.
“Circle of Impact is a guide to managing change and complexity on a personal and organizational level,” says Brenegar. “The book explains how we can define our lives and the purpose of our organizations as creators of the change we want to see and that makes a difference that matters.”
In Circle of Impact: Taking Personal Initiative to Ignite Change, Brenegar offers a leadership model based on the interaction between three dimensions that inhabit our lives and organizations: ideas, relationships and structure. He teaches how to align these dimensions around a common understanding of the change that they should create together. The model can be used by individuals, communities and organizations to guide decision-making, solve problems, improve communication and formulate strategic plans for the future.
Five cornerstone principles guide Brenegar’s approach:
- We are all in transition, both personally and organizationally, from where we once were to where we will be in the future.
- The greatest change we go through is in our self-perception
- All leadership begins with personal initiative that creates impact that makes a difference that matters.
- Leadership is no longer an organizational title or a role, but a quality of one’s character and the function of being human within the social and organizational contexts of one’s life and work
- Leadership is personal and social, and always functions in some social or organizational context.
Each section of the book explores a specific theme related to becoming a leader of impact in a world of change and creating leader-rich cultures.
- In Part One, the author describes the Circle of Impact model of leadership, as well as explores personal and organizational leadership.
- Part Two provides a perspective on change that brings insight into not only why things are as they are in the world, but also how we can deal with change both personally and organizationally.
- Part Three shows how the components of the Circle of Impact model can bring wholeness and order to organizations, aligning the whole of our organizations for impact and creating the conditions for fostering a high-trust, agile culture.
- Part Four applies the Circle of Impact in organizations amid a global transition.
Circle of Impact: Taking Personal Initiative to Ignite Change is published by SAVIO REPUBLIC, an imprint of Post Hill Press.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Dr. Ed Brenegar consults and coaches on values-based organizational leadership, strategic planning and change management. A former university professor, columnist and pastor, he has more than 30 years of experience working with senior executives, entrepreneurs and a variety of organizational clients to expand leadership impact and productivity through the creation of cultures of trust and leadership initiative. Learn more at edbrenegar.com.
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QUESTIONS FREQUENTLY ASKED
Circle of Impact: Taking Personal Initiative to Ignite Change is about helping people realize they can make a difference in their business, communities and throughout the world. It explains how we, as individuals, can view our lives as transformational. Each of us has the capacity to lead by both initiating and inspiring others to create beneficial change.
What is the Circle of Impact?
Circle of Impact is a model of leadership focused on the creation of impact by people and their organizations. It provides a framework for seeing situations, making decisions and taking initiative to make a difference in how we work, the communities where we live and in the lives we want to lead. When Ideas, Relationships and Structure are aligned, individuals and organizations are best positioned to collaborate, innovate and solve problems that create beneficial change.
How does the Circle of Impact work?
Ideas, Relationships and Structure constitute the Three Dimensions of Leadership. Values, purpose, vision and the impact we want to create are the four connecting ideas that link the dimensions. When any one of the dimensions is misaligned, it produces a conflict or challenge. The other two dimensions can be applied to finding a resolution.
What is meant by Impact?
Impact is the beneficial change created by taking initiative. In the Circle of Impact model, impact stands above everything else. It is the ultimate measure of our ideas, our values, our purpose, our relationships, and the social and organizational structures of our businesses, society, and ultimately what defines us.
How is personal initiative central to leadership?
All leadership begins with personal initiative. Increasingly, companies depend upon their people taking steps to do the right thing in the moment of need. Organizations that cultivate personal initiative in their people, at all levels, create the conditions that improve communication, increase collaboration and innovate new ways of achieving their goals. When a person takes initiative, they make a personal choice to take action, motivated to fulfill a desire and the values that give their life meaning. Leadership begins with an idea, leading to a decision, followed by a specific action. This change is the impact that is at the center of the Circle of Impact.
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Dr. Ed Brenegar is a Leader for Leaders working with individuals, their teams, organizations and communities who find themselves at a point of transition. Ed has developed an innovative leadership model called, Circle of Impact, that clarifies what the impact of their life or the work of their organization can be. From this perspective, impact is the change that makes a difference that matters. Ed. for over 30 years, has inspired and equipped people and organizations to practice this fresh understanding of leadership. All leadership begins with personal initiative to create impact that makes a difference that matters. Everyone within an organization or a community can, therefore, practice leadership initiative. In so doing, they turn what were once leadership-starved organizations into leader-rich cultures that make a difference that matters.
