The Leader’s Guide To (positive) Impact, reviewed, published 2019

By @SimonCocking review of The Leader’s Guide To Impact, by Mandy Flint and Elisabet Vinberg Hearn, available from Amazon here.

Things move fast. Leaders need to create impact in each moment, to not lose that moment. Creating impact is a positive, powerful and authentic way to demonstrate you’re taking charge, get more from your team and drive business results. But to succeed, you need to create the impact you WANT and need rather than relying on what you HAVE.

The Leader’s Guide to Impact will show leaders how to create the impact that will help them connect with others in a respectful way, to create trust, get others to listen to them, influence effectively, drive results and much more. And most importantly, the book will also show leaders how to do it in an authentic way that supports your reputation and brand effectively.

Managing and creating impact is not a “nice to have”, it’s a business necessity.

“Impact is such an important and not really talked about topic. This book is about how impact starts from within.”

Tim Noble, Vice President, Global Head of Sales, ICE Data Services

“If there is one book you read on leadership, this is it. Be the best leader you can possibly be, by taking control of your impact on those around you.”

Vanessa Vallely, OBE, Managing Director, WeAreTheCity , Author of “Heels of Steel”

The Leader’s Guide To Impact, reviewed

Leadership is becoming a more and more important element of work, and how businesses are run, well or badly. We are seeing more and more business books coming to us discussing this topic, and the reasons why it is critical to do it well. Flint and Hearn aim to dig into the key areas where things can be done well, or badly, and the reasons why this can then significantly affect your business’s bottom line.

The subtitle to the book ‘how to use soft skills to get hard results’ is a key aspect of their approach. It is not enough to just use management tools if your leaders are not also actually engaging and using their own emotional intelligence, diagnostic skills, and a willingness to dig deeper to actually understand the root causes of why, or why not certain things are happening.

Impact remains the relevant keyword. What is your impact, how do you impact on others, and what is the result / impact of these interventions. Company culture is examined. Time and time again studies reveal that it is a terrible boss that more often causes good staff to leave, rather than the ethos of the company. Flint and Hearn also look at social media in a variety of elements, including how you engage with stake holders, customers and the media. There are many simple, but subtle things that can be done well, and when done badly or not at all, can be very damaging for your brand and the overall fiscal turnover too.

If the insights in this book help to ensure we have smarter, more emotionally intelligent leaders, and more holistic, sustainably focussed businesses, then this book will have been effective in its goals. Read it to avoid being blind sided by other companies who are learning and moving faster in this area.

About the authors

Mandy Flint is an international expert on teams, cultural behavioural change and leadership impact. She is CEO of Excellence in Leadership and works across the world delivering transformational change programmes and C-suite coaching. Mandy studied at Harvard Business School and is a fellow of the London Metropolitan Business School. She is also an established speaker at leadership and cultural change events.

Elisabet Vinberg Hearn is an international expert on leadership impact, teams and people-first digital transformations, operating as leadership strategist, speaker and executive coach. She is co-founder of Think Solutions and CEO of Katapult Partners. Elisabet has an MBA in Leadership & Sustainability and has studied Sustainability Management at Cambridge University and AI strategy at MIT CSAIL. 

Mandy and Elisabet have written two multi award-winning books on team leadership.

See their previous book reviewed here.

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