The 10X Leader: Breaking the Rules of Conventional Leadership

About this book

DEAR LEADER, THE WORLD AROUND YOU HAS CHANGED. HAVE YOU? Leadership expert Pawan Verma introduces you to a new kind of leader, the 10X leader—the one who looks at leadership as a responsibility to make the world a better place to live. Equipped with a larger purpose and a future-oriented mindset, this 10X leader harnesses the power of ideas and networks to transform businesses and societies, and above all, our lives and experiences. Verma presents a new approach, termed AGILE (Alive and Adaptive, Grit, Innovation, Learning and Excellence), that suggests how to deal with the volatility, uncertainty, complexities, and ambiguities of the VUCA world and create order out of chaos. It also emphasizes some of the fundamental human values—love, joy, peace, and hope—that are highly celebrated but rarely utilized at workplace. This book is carefully designed to help contemporary leaders get rid of the Industrial Age mindset and cultivate new beliefs and practices relevant to our times. It offers a refreshing perspective that has a huge potential of transforming lives and societies. Verma’s message to the leader in you is clear: Don’t think outside the box. Do away with the box itself! Review “. . . powerful new insights into how we can develop as leaders in the knowledge economy.” DINESH KUMAR MEHROTRA, former chairman, LIC of India “If you want to navigate through the leadership challenges of the twenty-first century, The 10X Leader is just the book for you.” T. S. VIJAYAN, former chairman, Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority of India “Highly recommended to practitioners for thoughts on new-age leadership.” M. BALACHANDRAN, former Chairman, Bank of India and National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) “The 10X Leader makes you think about leadership in an entirely new way.” MANISH MIMANI, Founder CEO, Protectt.ai Labs Pvt Ltd. “Verma’s mantra of whole-brain leadership to lead through today’s challenging times is not only fascinating but extremely relevant.” KAMALJI SAHAY, Author, The LIC Story, Columnist with The Financial Express, former MD and CEO, Star Union Dai-ichi Life Insurance “No matter at what level you are in your organization, you will love to read this book.” GIRISH KULKARNI, Chairman-Asia Pacific, Dai-ichi Life International Holdings, Singapore “Verma makes a compelling case for a paradigm shift from the leader-follower model to a leader-leader model of organizational relationships.” DR. R. RAMAKRISHNAN, Chairman and MD, Transformia Advisors LLP, and former Chief Executive, Polycab India Ltd.