When the Curveballs Keep Coming
A Leadership Playbook for an Uncertain World
by Bobbie LaPorte
I’ve lost count of the number of practical ideas, approaches and techniques I’ve already marked in this book. Your writing has already helped me diagnose and respond better to many things I’ve been dealing with. This is THE leadership playbook for today’s business leaders.
As a business leader, have you been wondering:
• How do I lead my team forward when everything keeps changing?
• How am I supposed to make decisions when I have no idea what’s coming next?
• How can I feel confident without having any control over my environment?
You’re not alone. It’s just plain hard to be a good leader right now—and that’s why you need an experienced guide in your corner.
As you read When the Curveballs Keep Coming: A Leadership Playbook for an Uncertain World, you won’t just learn how to cope with the challenges and disruptions work throws at you. You’ll discover how to shift how you handle unexpected situations from loss to one of possibility —so you can be ready for anything.
Disruption at Scale – Unprecedented Instability
Why Every Business Leader Needs This Leadership Playbook
If you are a leader in today’s dynamic and changing business environment, your world has changed. Forever.
What we are experiencing in today’s challenging environment is unlike any we have experienced before.
It feels like there is no control and no certainty of what is coming next. Without certainty, feelings of competence and confidence can disappear, and you may be stuck, wondering how to move yourself or your team forward.
Bobbie LaPorte has worked with hundreds of executives across all types of organizations and understands how even the most capable and forward-thinking leaders are desperately seeking some stability so they can regroup and respond.
In When the Curveballs Keep Coming: A Leadership Playbook for an Uncertain World, LaPorte provides insight into the ripple effects of navigating uncertainty. She explains how you can adopt a possibilities mindset to get ahead of the curve – and your peers —and always find the next win for you and your team.
Blending real-world scenarios with scalable, science-based solutions, pragmatic, actionable, science-based methodology, this leadership playbook will help you normalize the unexpected—and get ready for anything.
My FAVORITE part of the book are the “tests” - the "if you've felt this in this circumstance" bits really resonated with me and I found myself really using those introspectively. Those diagnostic questions are what would cause me to reach for this book in the future after having read it. I liked them so much in fact that I want to re-read them just to offer more feedback.
Curveballs for Your Team
Bobbie has drawn on the science-based principles from her studies at IE University, combined with her real-world business experience, to create this contemporary leadership playbook. “When The Curveballs Keep Coming” is a must-have tool for today’s leaders.
The valuable leadership lessons in When the Curveballs Keep Coming: A Leadership Playbook for an Uncertain World apply to everyone from C-suite executives to front-line managers—and everyone in between. Purchase books in volume to help everyone in your organization learn to find their “best next move” and work together toward achieving their goals.
For more information about volume orders and packages that include workshops and coaching, please call 415-990-7594 or send an email to info@bobbielaporte.com.
About Bobbie LaPorte
As founder and CEO of Bobbie LaPorte and Associates, Bobbie’s current focus is on helping leaders navigate unprecedented instability. Her advisory and consulting firm provides leadership and organizational development services to Fortune 500 companies, global organizations, and promising start-ups.
Before launching her own advisory firm, Bobbie LaPorte spent more than 20 years on the firing line in C-Suite roles in blue-chip companies and technology ventures She has an MBA from Harvard and a Master’s degree in Positive Leadership and Strategy from IE in Madrid.
Bobbie blends real-world scenarios with science-based solutions that help leaders build the confidence and personal resilience to be ready for anything. In addition to her book, When the Curveballs Keep Coming, Bobbie offers this break-through framework through workshops and keynotes, enterprise-wide learning programs, and executive coaching and advisory services.
Bobbie is currently training for her seventh Ironman triathlon. Her two Golden Retrievers – Posey and Nilla – often accompany her on training outings in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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When the Curveballs Keep Coming - A Leadership Playbook for an Uncertain World | Bobbie LaPorte & Associates
As you read When the Curveballs Keep Coming: A Leadership Playbook for an Uncertain World, you won’t just learn how to cope with the challenges and disruptions work throws at you. You’ll discover how to shift how you handle unexpected situations from loss to one of possibility —so you can be ready for anything.
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