How Contextual Leadership Transforms Leaders and Organizations
Reading the book will answer the two critical challenges we all face as leaders: how to match our leadership to the organizational context and how to set up our organization for maximum performance.
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“Torben’s Contextual Leader dramatically advances situational leadership. The framework, diagnostics, tools, and stories enable any leader to achieve desired performance. This comprehensive, research based, and solution focused work becomes the ultimate handbook for leadership.”
Dave Ulrich
Rensis Likert Professor, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, Partner
The RBL Group
How Contextual Leadership Transforms Leaders and Organizations
Reading the book will answer the two critical challenges we all face as leaders: how to match our leadership to the organizational context and how to set up our organization for maximum performance.
“Torben’s Contextual Leader dramatically advances situational leadership. The framework, diagnostics, tools, and stories enable any leader to achieve desired performance. This comprehensive, research based, and solution focused work becomes the ultimate handbook for leadership.”
Dave Ulrich
Rensis Likert Professor, Ross School of Business, University of Michigan, Partner
The RBL Group
Get the Leadership Context InventoryTM
for free with the book
Get the Leadership Context InventoryTM for free with the book
The Leadership Context InventoryTM is an online survey measuring the contextual factors that significantly impact employee performance and leadership effectiveness. The validated survey, which takes just 20 min to complete, is based on the research behind the book The Contextual Leader.
The LCI provides a practical graphical and written report, empowering you to shape your context and promote performance.
Sign up to download the two first chapters and start your journey of optimizing the effectiveness of your contextual leadership.
Leadership is contextual
Drawing upon global research and Dr. Torben Nørby’s decades of experience, the book provides practical answers on how context calls for different leadership approaches and how to shape the context to set your organization up for success.
Here are some of the things the book can do for you:
Create an overview of the contextual factors that hold the potential to help or hinder performance and effective leadership.
Guide you on matching your specific context with the optimal leadership approaches most fit for promoting performance and engagement.
Develop organizational responses to the critical factors in your company’s external environment, like complexity or risk intensity.
Identify the key elements in your organizational culture and get an approach to shaping a stronger culture in the areas most crucial for performance.
Noerby tackles one of the elephants in the room and addresses some of the key issues involved in leadership. As a social and organizational psychologist, his perspective makes complete sense. He also generously provides a map to navigate, not as a mere spectator, but as an active agent of change. A book full of detail and generosity.
Noerby has done an extraordinary job of summarizing the research on this topic as well as tapping the wisdom of leading experts to provide a comprehensive, go-to resource for leaders at all levels. If you are preparing to lead, or care about leading more successfully, study this book carefully.
The relevance of influencing the context to optimize performance and engagement stands out. Not only because of the content itself, but also because of the way it is written. I could perfectly imagine Dr Noerby in front of me, explaining how to make leadership contextually effective, with the energy and passion he puts into his lectures – magnificently transferred into written language.
The Contextual Leader is an insightful and practical guide. Noerby’s personal journey and reflections make this book both relatable and inspiring. His stories bring to life the challenges and rewards of leadership in varied settings, and his ability to distill complex ideas into actionable strategies ensures that readers can immediately apply what they’ve learned.
As the leader of a headhunting firm, I frequently discuss “cultural fit” with partners, senior staff, and clients — yet often encounter challenges due to a lack of shared language and understanding. Dr. Noerby’s framework offers us a way to bridge this gap, equipping us to better assess a leader’s background and help them navigate their transition into future roles.
The Contextual Leader comes across with a clear practitioner’s focus supported by many concrete examples throughout the book. Torben writes that part of the purpose is to give people a language to address the context and its dynamics – I think the book does an excellent job of delivering on that ambition.
What I specifically like about The Contextual Leader is that this book actually reads as a handbook. The book also spends quite some time around culture which allows the reader to navigate in the complex world of culture & behaviour. Dr. Nørby successfully combines the theory with examples we all recognise in our organizations.
Few resources provide practical answers on how context calls for different leadership approaches or how to shape the context to set your organization up for success. The book serves to change that by providing senior leaders with a handbook for mitigating and leveraging the different contextual factors we face as leaders.
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Meet the author
Dr. Torben Nørby, a globally recognized leadership expert and the CEO of People & Performance, has helped countless organizations drive success through contextual leadership. Dr. Nørby is a sought-after speaker and consultant, developing high-performing executive teams and leadership academies for large organizations. Learn more about his work and access exclusive resources on contextual leadership.
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