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Introduction 13

organization, also accompanied perhaps by a growing personal reputation
in your industry. More and more people now want to sign up and work
with you. Clients or customers ask for you by name. You’re invited to rep-
resent the company at major industry conferences. Whether you use this
momentum to take over a new initiative or to start your own company,
you’ve begun to truly deliver major impact at scale. You’ve become a leader,
capable of rallying an organization of people around a meaningful collec-
tive goal and delivering the results to reach it.

A simple map to help you on your way

For a conceptual map of this book, see figure I-2. We treat each prac- tice
of leadership distinctly, but as a leader, you’re practicing them all at

FIGURE I-2
The six practices of leadership

Developing