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Welcome to Soundview's summary-in-brief of Leadership and the Art of Struggle: How
Great Leaders Grow Through Challenge and Adversity, written by Steven Snyder.
Snyder, who was an early leader at Microsoft, is the founder of Snyder
Leadership Group, a consulting firm dedicated to cultivating inspired
leadership.
In Leadership and the Art of Struggle, we quickly learn to view struggle as a
natural part of leadership that provides a learning and growth opportunity for
leaders.
Snyder frames struggle as an art to be mastered.
By embracing struggle in this way, leaders develop skills, capabilities, and
practices that help them to deal with challenge and adversity.
This, in turn, opens the way for their greatest growth.
The book is well-organized, leading us through getting grounded, exploring new
pathways, and deepening our adaptive energy in order to fully realize our
leadership potential.
Adaptive energy, as Snyder explains it, is the force that propels you to reach
your dreams.
Harnessing adaptive energy can give you courage, resilience, and the ability to
resist negativity. It helps you stay aligned with your values and principles
and keeps you on a productive track.
Leadership and the Art of Struggle speaks directly to leaders and offers strategies
that can be immediately helpful.
Snyder also includes engaging stories drawn from his extensive research of
real-life examples of leadership struggle.
Leadership and the Art of Struggle has been summarized by Soundview Executive
Book Summaries with permission of the publisher, Berrett-Koehler.
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