The Return on Leadership

In a world where everyone has access to the same technology, skills and markets, how do you compete and grow?

New research shows that growth isn’t just capital-intensive or labor-intensive - it’s also leader-intensive. And as the forces of digitization and globalization race ahead, it’s become clear that good leadership, focused on Vision, Engagement and Execution, is great business.

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The Challenge?

How to Navigate Change and Unlock Hidden Growth

Connecting with a Distributed TEAM

COVID blew up our assumptions about remote work and everything that goes with it, literally overnight. Remember off-sites? Travel? Face-to-face meetings? How about your security perimeter? We are being forced to digest pervasive change that’s coming at us at a rate we’re not prepared to handle.

Managing Pervasive, Disruptive TECH

Internet technology and “direct to everything” capabilities are accelerating, flattening barriers to entry, transforming our expectations about services, and tearing established industries to shreds. It’s also contributing to stress in our companies, teams, and personal lives.

Striving to Compete, Grow and LEAD

Yet somehow, even though we face truly unprecedented challenges, we need to find a way to thrive in this new, fluid world…to create value as individuals, teams and organizations. Getting a difficult job done under impossible conditions? Naval aviators do it every day…and night.

THE ANSWER?

Clear Ownership of Vision, Engagement, and Execution

Key Growth Mindsets

You don’t need a crystal ball to discern a new unified Vision for your organization. You must, however, be ready and willing to lead a team effort focused on creating a future worth caring about, including a credible path to make it real. And that starts with rejecting the idea that “two outta three ain’t bad.”

Teams don’t “get on board” because they’re told to. They evaluate an organization’s goals and its likelihood of achieving them. By viewing yourself as a member of at least three relevant teams, you can dramatically improve the odds that your new initiative will take root and thrive.

We’ve all heard of Murphy’s Law - “anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.” The problem is that Murphy isn’t just a saying…it normalizes a dangerous tendency toward fatalistic acceptance. It’s the opposite of the active anticipation that is a hallmark of agile, highly effective leaders, teams, and organizations.

Hi, my name is Dennis Brouwer, and I’m the author of “The Return on Leadership”.

I wrote the Return on Leadership because I believe that leadership behaviors are universal, teachable and quantifiable. I set out to both prove and illustrate that point, all at the same time.
The proof comes from research done by The Leadership Circle, a company that specializes in measuring, calibrating and improving the behaviors of leaders and teams, all in service to the broader organization’s goals.
The illustration of the point is more personal. It’s based on a set of what sailors call “sea stories”…tales of mere mortals finding themselves forced to reckon with impossible situations, short of resources, plans and time. I’ve survived my fair share of sea stories, including stints as a carrier-based naval flight officer, co-founder of a venture-backed software-as-a-service start-up, leader of a $300m IT services business transformation and as a Fortune 500 executive.
Today, I work as a Client Strategist, helping large enterprises meet the challenges of a post-pandemic economy that is attempting to navigate the 4th Industrial Revolution at break-neck speeds. I live and work in Loudoun County, Virginia, which is home both to idyllic, pastoral landscapes and the world’s largest collection of data centers, a constant reminder of the apparent contradictions that we’re faced with every day.

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