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CEO coach, author, consultant, and popular seminar leader
Lee Thayer, author of Leadership: Thinking, Being, Doing
is back to rattle your cage.

Rattling cages is what he does best!

Since most executives fail (they fail at least their own hopes and dreams), the author wondered, where are they learning how to do this? There are thousands of books about how to suceed. They don’t seem to have made all that much difference. None about how to fail. Maybe, the author surmised, if they are learning how to fail from books about how to succeed, a book about how to fail would have the same perverse effect.

Maybe a little irony and humor would be useful – revealing that how an executive thinks always determines the outcome. So here you have it. Here is the definitive book about how executives contribute to their own failure without even knowing it. It’s a smile a page. You’ll see your peers, maybe even get a sideways glimpse of yourself. If you get into it, it’ll change the way you think. Likely for the better.

And then, maybe you'll want to do a little cage rattling of your own!
Join the discussion at Lee's new blog:
The Leaders' Journey, with Lee Thayer.

• "Habit is a great deadener and this book will help you break
  the ones that could fatally end your career (and ambitions!).
  The best 'insurance' book on leadership I’ve read."
  Dr. Warren Bennis,
  Distinguished Professor of Business,
  University of Southern California,
  Author of On Becoming a Leader

• "Every few centuries, in every field of study, someone arises whose insights dwarf those of his or her peers. Lee Thayer is one of them. His work and his name will be remembered for centuries to come. As Einstein eclipsed Newton, Thayer eclipses Machiavelli. His seminal thinking on leadership is the foundation for all that I have done at Johnsonville Sausage."
  Ralph C. Stayer, CEO,
  Johnsonville Sausage

• "With characteristic insight, Lee Thayer tells us there are two ways to succeed: ‘get lucky and avoid failure.’ (Absolutely brilliant!) Since you can’t learn luck, Thayer offers his readers a baker’s two dozen ways to ‘fail on purpose’ in this original, funny, and useful little gem of a book. Smart executives will sneak peeks at its ironically practical pages when no one is looking."
  James O'Toole,
  Author of Creating the Good Life