In his new book, Leadership As a Lifestyle, John Hawkins gives practical insight to all who want to lead with integrity and effectiveness in their multiple spheres of influence.  The book outlines the pathways to personal integrity and interpersonal influence, the defining characteristics of a true leader.

“Lifestyle leadership demands that we engage and lead well in all of our spheres, not just in the one that is easiest, that complains the loudest, or that offers the greatest immediate rewards.”

Leadership As a Lifestyle reveals why managing our life through the practice of “compartmentalization” is ineffective.  By compartmentalizing our lives, you can be fooled into thinking you have attained a mystical state of balance due to focusing on the challenges of only one sphere of your influence.

“This strategy attempts to manage the maddening demands of multiple commitments by mentally separating each commitment into a self-contained, disconnected little box,” Hawkins writes.  Our many commitments must be seen in a unified way and not as a random assortment of disconnected boxes.

According to Hawkins, it is through managing the conflicting demands for an individual’s involvement that one may achieve balance.  Leadership As a Lifestyle guides the reader in understanding that life-balance exists in the managed tension of the weight of conflicting demands, not in neglecting or abandoning those demands.  Lifestyle leaders approach each leadership challenge in each sphere of influence with consistency in what they say and what they do.

In turn, this consistency builds credibility—the connecting point for influence, Hawkins writes.

This book provides insightful guidance for leaders on how to influence with integrity, cultivate leadership skills, and determine what really matters in life and relationships.  According to Dr. Larry Donnithorne, author of The West Point Way of Leadership, “Leadership As a Lifestyle is a rare achievement and a sparkling gem among the leadership books on the market today.”

A Chinese translation of Leadership as a Lifestyle was published in 2003.

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