THE SYSTEMS LEADER

A groundbreaking blueprint for leaders to master "cross-pressures," the complementary skillsets required by today's rapidly changing world, teaching them how to both execute and innovate, to think both locally and globally, and to project ambition and statesmanship alikefrom a Stanford Business School professor and consultant to some of the biggest CEOs.

Since the start of this century, businesses have confronted a series of extreme disruptions and transitions, including technological upheavals, economic and geopolitical instability, a worldwide pandemic, and a global financial crisis. While previous eras all brought their challenges, we've never seen such a constant, sustained, and unrelenting combination of them. As a result, today's leaders, from startup founders to the managers of global giants, face unprecedented pressures from their bosses, investors, customers, peers, suppliers, and employeespressure to do seemingly opposing things at the same time. Part of the problem is that these challenges, while acutely felt, are rarely articulated in a way that makes them graspable and actionable. Robert Siegel has witnessed the impact of these cross-pressures from different perspectives. As a lecturer in management at Stanford's Graduate School of Business and consultant, he sees countless teams of managers, at all sorts of companies, struggling to lead their companies into the future. Actionable and powerful, The Systems Leader is a playbook for riding turbulent waves instead of drowning in themand for taking readers from chaos to clarity. Robert Siegel is a lecturer in management at the Stanford Graduate School of Business. He is also a venture partner at Piva Capital, a general partner at XSeed Capital, and sits on the board of directors of LUUM, Avochato, and Findmine. He is the author of The Brains and Brawn Company: How Leading Organizations Blend the Best of Digital and Physical.