Mike's latest e-book - the second in the trilogy
What separates teams that merely perform from those that truly break through?
The Commitment Advantage reveals that extraordinary results are not the product of luck, talent, or relentless effort - they are the predictable outcomes of one thing: commitment. This e-book explores how leaders can generate, sustain, and renew commitment to achieve results beyond the predictable.
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The Commitment Advantage reframes leadership as a practice of being, not just doing. It shows how leaders shift from compliance to commitment, where people act not because they must but because it matters. Leaders need to recognise they can break through performance plateaus by reframing context and identity. There are simple ways to build practices and rituals that keep the flame of commitment alive irrespective of changing circumstances. There are also ways to navigate the shadows of commitment - overreach, rigidity, and quiet drift - with honesty and renewal.
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Most importantly, breakthrough performance comes from leading from identity, aligning with who you are with what you stand for.
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It is not a book about motivation. It is a book about who you are being as a leader, and how that shapes what becomes possible for everyone around you. Because compliance sustains, but commitment transforms.
Prefer a podcast rather than a read? Click to the left for 15 minutes of informative conversation on the contents of The Commitment Advantage.
Re-Authoring Leadership
Re-Authoring Leadership invites leaders to confront the stories they tell themselves and the identities they cling to. Leadership is not only about what we do, but about how we experience the world, who we are while doing it, and how we choose to make meaning of events as they unfold. Instead of simply repeating inherited scripts of power, authority, or success, this book challenges readers to rewrite their own leadership narrative.
Through case studies, reflective models, and provocative questions, it explores how you experience the world in the present moment, the deeper question of being, the stories you tell about yourself and how they limit or expand your leadership, and the almost preconditioned responses that keep you stuck, unless you learn to disrupt and rewrite them.
Each chapter blends insight with practice, opening with a disruptive question and closing with a challenge that pushes the reader beyond complacency into commitment, beyond justifying into action, and beyond predictable into extraordinary.
For leaders ready to step into discomfort, embrace complexity, and write a story worth living, this book offers both the pen, the practices and the courage to use it. The result - you can shift from being shaped by experience, to shaping your experience.
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Mike offers half day and full day workshops for individual or teams who want coaching on how to re-author their individual or organisational stories in order to realise their potential.
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Prefer a podcast rather than a read? Click to the left for 18 minutes of informative conversation on the contents of Re-Authoring Leadership.
When leaders play ordinary, the organisation can only play ordinary.
When leaders play Extraordinary, the organisation can transform.
As leaders, we sometimes achieve Extraordinary results in business and our lives, yet never really understand what it takes for these to happen more than just every now and then. What if we could more regularly and reliably deliver Extraordinary?
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In Being Extraordinary, Mike shares his model of mindsets and practices to set you on the pathway for Extraordinary results. By confronting ordinary leadership practices, the 'Model for Extraordinary' explains the necessary conditions that enable Extraordinary outcomes to flourish.
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Packed with plenty of practical experiences and insightful anecdotes, Mike illustrates how he developed and applied the model throughout his business career.
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Would you like to preview of some of the contents?
Click on any of the images below to go to the relevant snippet Mike has posted on LinkedIn.
These are around 500 words, so a digestible and insightful three minutes of reading.
Changing Our Stories
We do not practice the most cost-effective and underutilised leadership practice there is – reflection.
Voicing the Unsaid
The Unsaid conversation is the one that never actually gets beyond someone’s internal chatter.
Give Up Being Right
Our Identity is the automatic impulse for our need to be right.
Context Matters
Developing and adapting organisational context is the primary responsibility of leadership.
I am 100% Accountable
My commitment is “I am 100% accountable for everything that is happening around me, all the time”.
