This Is Day One
A Practical Guide to Leadership That Matters
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5.0 • 2 Ratings
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Publisher Description
A guide to cultivating behaviors that will help you succeed and empower those around you—based on a popular, inspirational TED Talk.
"Dudley provides true stories, genuine insights, and clear strategies that will allow you to reach new levels of success and impact. Whether you're a CEO or recent graduate, you'll uncover incredible lessons that could transform your life." ―Shane Feldman, CEO, Count Me In
If you're intimidated by the mystique surrounding leadership, this book is for you. Drew Dudley simplifies leadership without denying its complexity, demonstrating that leadership in all its forms begins at the same clear and accessible place for everyone: what he calls "Day One."
Day One is when you discover, define, and start to consistently deliver on your foundational leadership values. Living that day over and over is what creates leaders, and Dudley provides the key tools necessary to craft and commit to your own personal Day One, including: A step-by-step process designed to surface your core leadership values and embed them into your daily behavior A roadmap to behavioral changes proven to increase commitment, pride, productivity, and happiness Insights into key leadership values that drive performance and impact
Sharing the process that led him through battles with alcohol, obesity, and personal tragedy, Dudley shows you how to develop a relentless commitment to the daily behaviors that will make you a better executive, coach, or teacher, and how you can inspire others to do the same.
This Is Day One shows you how to think of yourself as a leader. Through the insights of leaders of all types—CEOs, elite athletes, cab drivers, custodians, and everyone in between—Dudley helps you understand what your Day One needs to look like, reminds you why you're a leader, and makes clear what you can do about it—starting today, on Day One.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The TEDx talk "Everyday Leadership" fails to make the leap to a book in this disappointing debut from Dudley, founder of Day One Leadership. Billed as a "leadership starter kit," the book stresses that readers need to unlearn the lesson that leaders must be like Jeff Bezos or Steve Jobs. Taking a note from his handbook of substance abuse recovery, Dudley urges readers to recommit themselves to their careers daily and to draw up "a list of behaviors that will generate positive moments of impact, courage, empowerment, growth and self-respect." His chatty direction on identifying key values is entertaining enough, but can be boiled down to a single sentence: make one's commitment to leadership a daily habit. Coupled with the disproportionate amount of space given to his own journey, this approach results in a book that feels most like an exercise in brand extension. In the most off-putting passage, he represents a sophomoric joke from his college days as "the greatest moment of leadership in my life." By the end of this book, readers will be left wondering whether good judgment and leadership necessarily go hand in hand.)
Customer Reviews
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We have all grown up watching high profile individuals standing on a stage, behind a podium, or their unwavering support for a cause that demanded our attention. We watch in awe and admiration as they committed to making positive changes in the lives of others. That is what we have seen as leadership. Drew Dudley’s book inspires readers to tap into his or her own leadership potential.
In an exceptional fashion of storytelling combined with life experiences and thought provoking questions, Dudley challenges his readers to redefine what most of us know and understand as leadership. In a non-intimidating fashion, Dudley takes his readers through his lived experiences and enlightenment of the complex but simple concept of leadership.
By the end of this book, readers will not only have a better understanding of their own personal leadership values, but know how to take an active role in creating more impact to all those they interact with.