Your Leadership Legacy: Why Looking Toward the Future Will Make You a Better Leader Today |  | Authors: Robert M. Galford, Regina Fazio Maruca
Publisher: Harvard Business Press
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ISBN: 1591396174
Dewey Decimal Number: 658.4092
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Publication Date: September 1, 2006
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You should worry about your legacy later in your career, at the edge of retirementright? Not according to Robert Galford and Regina Maruca. In Your Leadership Legacy, these authors argue that thinking about your legacy now makes you a better leader today. Based on stories of top leaders who have shaped successful careers, the book explores the art of "legacy thinking," helping you to formulate a legacy that will exert a positive effect on your work immediately. The authors provide a disciplined approach to framing your legacy, as well as shaping it over time. They start with the idea that your legacy is defined by how others approach work and life as a result of having worked with you. They then demonstrate how to assess your current impact on those around you, strengthen that impact, and pass along the best of yourself in the process. While many leaders "find themselves" and hone their work accordingly only after a major life crisis, Your Leadership Legacy enables all leaders to craft their work and build their legacy unburdened by such crises, and to experience personal satisfaction and achievement throughout their working lives.
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Thoughtful and useful August 30, 2006
Candace Harris (New York)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I thought this was a great little book. Easy to read, practical advice. There were a number of things I can use over and over. Their discussion of legacy roles was really interesting and thought provoking. I knew people in just about every category. Reading this carefully could be very useful and make a big difference in a manager or leader's life. This book is beautifully packaged and would be a thoughtful gift for anyone in business.
insightful, thoughtful, and easy to read August 31, 2006
Susan J. Matthew (Cambridge, MA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I found this short and easy to read book to be extremely useful. Not having specifically considered my own leadership legacy to date, having read this book helped me to recognize that integration of my personal values into my business life will affect not only how people think of me, but whether and how my work will be considered in the future. I really enjoyed this book and particularly liked not only the personal narrative by the "leaders", but also the follow-up from his or her associates commenting on, and clearly illustrating, that person's leadership legacy. Will I be thought of as a fair and reasonable person? Or as a perpetual grump who never helped anyone else? And who wants to follow in the footstops of the latter? After reading "Your Leadership Legacy", now I'm reflecting on these things!
Looking toward the future never looked better September 12, 2006
Suzanne C. Lowe
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
"Your Leadership Legacy" serves as an excellent springboard for an issue that too many leaders leave unaddressed. While they could have simply reminded us that looking toward the future is a good idea for leaders, the authors provide a fantastic framework and practical discussions for crafting -- and actually achieving -- professional results.
Start thinking about your leadership legacy now October 11, 2006
Jim Estill
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
The authors of "Your Leadership Legacy", Robert Galford and Regina Fazio Maruca asked for my thoughts on the type of leadership legacy I want to leave.
I read their book and was thoroughly impressed. Although I had not given a lot of thought to the approach, I am completely sold on it. The thesis of the book is to think about what legacy you want to leave and work backwards. This is the best way to have the greatest impact.
I think I will find this approach particularly worthwhile to keep me working on the big picture as opposed to getting too much into the little things.
The book talks about legacy thinking. In their words, legacy thinking helps you recognize when you are wasting time at a given spot. Legacy thinking helps you put planning in prospective.
This book is very fast and easy to read with a tremendously powerful message. I would strongly recommend this for any leader.
I plan to use this legacy thinking in my decision making.
Actively managing the way others will remember you... October 26, 2006
Thomas Duff (Portland, OR United States)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Regardless of what you do as a leader, you *will* leave a legacy behind. Rather than wait until there's not much left you can do about it, Robert M. Galford and Regina Fazio Maruca make the case for managing your legacy now in the book Your Leadership Legacy: Why Looking Toward the Future Will Make You a Better Leader Today.
Contents:
Part 1 - Making Leadership Last: Building a Legacy
Part 2 - Impact and Duration: What Kind of Impact Are You Having?; What Role Are You Playing?; Your Intentional Legacy; Is Your Legacy Designed To Last?; Are You Doing the Right Thing?
Part 3 - Judgment: The Need for Judgment; Legacies and the Responsibilities of Leadership
Notes; Index; About the Authors
In many ways, this is reminiscent of Stephen Covey's "Begin With The End In Mind". You start out thinking about how you would like to be perceived and remembered, and then start taking actions to make that happen. The authors define "legacy" as how others approach work and life as a result of having worked for you. They also advocate for looking at "legacy thinking" early on in your career, so that your goals can shape your day-to-day interactions with those you lead. Through a series of exercises, they walk you through assessing your current influence on those around you, identifying the type of role you play in the organization (as well as how that will affect your legacy), and then what steps you need to put in place to ensure that you are creating the legacy you intended. It's not necessarily a comfortable process, as the odds are that you'll have to acknowledge that there are aspects of your leadership style that may be effective to the organization but devastating to those around you. But ultimately, you'll leave some sort of personal signature on your charges. You might as well make sure it's one you'd *want* to be remembered for.
While written specifically for leaders, it's not hard to extrapolate the principles to your personal life. Think of your role as a leader of your family or of some organization where you volunteer your time and efforts. These areas also affect your legacy, and in many ways it's a legacy that's more personal and important than a corporate one. Even if you choose not to follow through all the exercises put forth here (and I recommend you do), just the thought of actively managing how others will remember you will start to move you down a road that not many travel in time to have much of an impact...
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