The Radical Leap and Creature from Jekyll Island

The Radical Leap: A Personal Lesson in Extreme Leadership

Author: Steve Farber

In The Radical Leap, we meet Steve, a leadership consultant who is intrigued and challenged by an enigmatic man named Edg, from whom he learns the concept of LEAP (cultivate Love, generate Energy, inspire Audacity and provide Proof). Steve is asked to help a friend, Janice, overcome a leadership conflict with her new boss at the biotech company where she works. In his effort to locate the charismatic former CEO of the company, Steve is led on a journey that ultimately revitalizes the company after it undergoes a radical and successful leadership transformation. The Radical Leap is an inspirational tale based on author Steve Farber's 14 years of experience in helping people become extreme leaders. An extreme leader, says Farber, is one who is not only unafraid of challenges, but actively seeks them out. Like extreme athletes who thrive on adventure, extreme leaders are willing to take risks while demonstrating high levels of pa ssion, determination, and dedication. Their enthusiasm becomes so infectious that it motivates others who see it in their leaders' actions, not just their words. A business parable that reads like a novel, The Radical Leap is filled with vivid, fully realized, and eccentric characters, crazy plot twists, honest and believable conversations about leadership, and most important, an innovative program for leaders to inspire and engage their companies.

Soundview Executive Book Summaries

Steve Farber, a leadership "evangelist" and a former vice president of The Tom Peters Co., has written a modern parable that begins when he meets a surfer named Edg on a Southern California beach. From there, Edg's leadership lessons propel Farber into a week of adventures and epiphanies where he regains his excitement and passion about leadership. Throughout, he learns about Extreme Leadership, where cultivating love, generating energy, inspiring audacity, and providing pr oof add up to the "Radical LEAP" a leader must take to improve an enterprise. Copyright © 2004 Soundview Executive Book Summaries

What People Are Saying

Tom Peters
Awesome! I am an unabashed Farber fan!

Tim Sanders
This is one of the coooolest books I've read in recent years on the subject of Leadership. The idea that Steve would use the extreme sport plus surf metaphor is not only timely, it is very realistic and represents the gestalt of our new generation of managers and leaders. This is a book that provides a gritty story with no punches held back. Steve is one cool dude, and I don't just use that term lightly. In the Leadership world we need more PG rated stories like this that smack of authenticity and most importantly ... applicability. Rock on Steve!
—author of LOVE IS THE KILLER APP: HOW TO WIN BUSINESS AND INFLUENCE FRIENDS

Patrick Lencioni
The Radical Leap is as enjoyable as it is important. Every leader needs to hear this message and take it to heart.This is a terrific book. (< i>author,"The Five Dysfuntions of a Team;"; "The Four Obsessions of an Extraordinary Executive"; "The Five Temptations of a CEO" President, The Table Group)

Table of Contents:

	Introduction	vii
	Tuesday	1
	Wednesday	11
	Thursday	31
	Friday	65
	Saturday	101
	Sunday	129
	Monday	139
	Later On	157
	The Radical Leap: A Daily Handbook for Extreme Leaders	16 3
	Acknowledgments	179

Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve

Author: G Edward Griffin

Where does money come from? Where does it go? Who makes it? The money magicians' secrets are unveiled. Here is a close look at their mirrors and smoke machines, the pulleys, cogs, and wheels that create the grand illusion called money.

A boring subject? Just wait! You'll be hooked in five minutes. Reads like a detective story--which it really is. But it's all true. This book is about the most blatant scam in history. It's all here: the cause of wars, boom-bust cycles, inflation, depression, prosperity. Your world view will definitely change.