Manage to Lead

Whether one wants to change personal habits, implement a new system, improve a business process, get team members to work together, increase a community’s appreciation for diversity, or even to topple a monarchy, taking seven actions driven by seven disarmingly simple truths will individually and collectively help achieve the goal. Manage to Lead: Seven Truths to Help You Change the World is a workbook that top educators, consultants, and executives use to help their students, clients, and staffs become effective leaders of strategic change. Manage to Lead serves as the core content for a class in Organization Analysis, Strategy and Development (OAS). The workbook introduces a straightforward framework to describe and assess any organization. It also provides a structured approach to plan and implement next steps for an organization as it strives for long-term growth and performance. Those interested in curriculum content for high-end leadership development should consider placing Manage to Lead at the center of their program. Those who purchase the workbook are invited to contact the author to request related teaching artifacts including course syllabus, readings list, PDF of class slides, and minute-by-minute timing of 38-classroom hours.

Author Biography

PeterD is a professional CEO who has run successful private, public, venture capital backed, and private equity owned businesses. Peter studies what works and why and then packages lessons, methods, and principles to help others. He serves on boards and advises/coaches CEOs in the name of IntelliVen, the firm he founded and runs to help leaders, teams, and organizations get clear, aligned, and on track to reach their potential to perform and grow. He serves on the advisory board to the University of Massachusetts Commonwealth Honors College which he helped found. He is Adjunct Professor of Organization Analysis and Strategy for the MS OD program in the School of Management at The University of San Francisco and and at Golden Gate University. Peter was honored by the University of Massachusetts to be a Bateman Scholar in residence as well as by its College of Computer Science for outstanding achievement in management. Peter earned a BS in Computer Science, Economics and Mathematics from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and an MBA from the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.