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by Sam Adeyemi (Author)
Your step-by-step guide to master the art of transformational leadership
In SHIFTS, Dr. Sam Adeyemi provides a step-by-step blueprint for leaders to create lasting positive change. Drawing from over 30 years of leadership coaching experience, Dr. Adeyemi teaches readers the importance of personal development, cultural awareness, and leading effectively in a globalized world.This essential read introduces the SHIFTS framework, a unique methodology that guides leaders through six transformative steps:
1. See Cultivate vision to recognize opportunities and challenges.
2. Hear Listen deeply to understand spoken and unspoken messages.
3. Insight Synthesize information to gain clear perspectives for decision-making.
4. Formulate Develop innovative and practical strategies from insights.
5. Transform Implement strategies to drive change and achieve goals.
6. Succeed Sustain positive change and inspire continuous growth.
SHIFTS is a must-have for current and aspiring leaders seeking to develop essential leadership skills applicable to any role and industry. Transform your mindset and elevate your leadership with this powerful guide.
Front Jacket
SHIFTS: 6 Steps to Transform Your Mindset and Elevate Your Leadership is a step-by-step blueprint that allows anyone to master the art of transformational leadership. Written by internationally renowned keynote speaker and veteran leadership coach Dr. Sam Adeyemi, this book enables readers to inspire their teams, stimulate productivity, boost morale, motivation, and performance, develop a winning culture, and attract and retain top talent.
The foundation of this book is found in Dr. Adeyemi's signature steps to transformational shifts: seeing consistently, hearing consistently, gaining insight, formulating beliefs, expressing our inner identity and vision, and succeeding repeatedly due to various laws of attraction and concepts in quantum physics.
The remainder of this book is broken down into a chapter-by-chapter review of individual types of mindshifts that you can use to find greater success through the concept of transformational leadership. Some of these mindshifts include:
- Personal mindshifts: Develop self-leadership to gain intrinsic motivation, beneficial habits, creativity, and more
- Team and organizational mindshifts: Use organizational vision, mission, and values to shape hearts and change lives
- Cultural, multicultural, and multigenerational mindshifts: Shift culture to radically improve performance, while being mindful of culture gaps and eliminating power and age gaps
- Long-distance mindshifts: Lead from almost anywhere by making your presence felt, trusting others, empowering your team, hiring for talent, and using transparency
- Global mindshifts: Develop cultural agility and humility across cultures, integrate desirable aspects from other cultures into your own, and solve the biggest problems that confront our world
SHIFTS earns a well-deserved spot on the bookshelves of all current and aspiring business leaders, executives, managers, and entrepreneurs seeking an accessible and highly effective blueprint for a better type of leadership.
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Praise for SHIFTS
You'll love Dr. Sam's personal stories, challenged by the thought processes behind his thinking that has been helped greatly by his pragmatic insights. You will definitely want to share SHIFTS with all the leaders you know."
--SAM CHAND, Leadership Consultant and author of VOICES and Cracking Your Church's Culture Code
"SHIFTS is an inspiring and actionable read for anyone who desires to make big shifts in their lives, and who seeks to make the world better by taking many others along."
--JOHN OLAJIDE, Founder and CEO of Axxess, Chairman of Cavista Holdings, Chairman of Corporate Council on Africa, and former chair Dallas Regional Chamber
"If you give only one book to your team, make it SHIFTS. It will greatly enhance performance because it is more than a leadership guide. It is a mindset, a belief system, and a roadmap to indispensable principles that will impact your business and its success. Dr. Sam's 6 steps to transformation is a universal guide to positive intelligence and a winning trajectory--relatable to everyone from one end of the globe to the other."
--ANNE BRUCE, Bestselling Author of Discover True North, Executive Coach, International Platform Speaker, and Television Producer
"SHIFTS delivers a fresh perspective on what it takes to lead effectively in today's world. Dr. Sam Adeyemi breaks down leadership into key phases, each building a bridge between vision and impact. A concise and compelling read that will resonate with leaders at every level."
--GABRIEL OGBECHIE, Group Managing Director of Rainoil Limited
"SHIFTS offers a profound exploration of how true leadership transcends conventional success. For any leader seeking to elevate both their impact and integrity, SHIFTS is an indispensable read."
--TOM GEGAX, Conscious Leadership Pioneer, Autobiographical Filmmaker of the acclaimed documentary Confessions of a CEO, and mentor to major American influencers like Deepak Chopra
Author Biography
A firm believer in the idea that everyone can lead, Dr. Sam Adeyemi has over 30 years' experience teaching leadership and providing solutions to global leaders and organizations. He is an internationally renowned speaker and has spoken at global events including Horasis and GLS.
