More Impact, More Easily

You're on your way

I'm so excited you're taking this vital next step towards being a B‐Suite Leader with C‐suite impact. If you conduct even half the experiments you've committed to in this book, you'll see a material shift in your leadership impact. If you keep practising the ones that work best for you, they'll become second nature to you quickly.

But now you have to do the work. Leadership is like riding a horse: no book on the planet can replicate what it's really like in the saddle. So now you've finished this book, get your feet in those stirrups, thread those reins through your fingers and get going — and get back on when you fall off (which you will, so be prepared).

The 12 Systems of Impact are based on five years of research and decades of experience into what middle managers need to make the shift from middle manager to B‐Suite Leader and then to reach the gold standard: a B‐Suite Leader with C‐suite impact.

You're already one step ahead of the pack now that you have read this book, armed with the targeted, proven methods that mid‐level leaders use to control the pace of work, hold the space to think and make the case with influence. To master the methods in this book that you need the most, or loved the most, you now need to practise them. The good news is that all of these methods are designed to be used in the flow of your work. You're already having the interactions. By introducing these techniques into those interactions, you will quickly learn to have more ...