Fire, Snowball, Mask, Movie: How Leaders Spark and Sustain Change
Peter Fuda Richard Badham
Reprint: R1111L What does it take for an average manager to become a highly effective leader? There are countless books, models, and formulas for success. But the truth is that leadership transformation is deeply dependent on circumstances. The key for those who seek it is to absorb the insights that can be drawn from the successful experiences of others. During their in-depth study of seven CEOs, Fuda and Badham uncovered seven interdependent metaphors, which they went on to test with more than 10,000 managers on four continents. The authors discuss four of those metaphors—fire, snowball, mask, and movie—here, in the context of individual managers’ experiences.
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Peter Fuda is the founder and principal of The Alignment Partnership, an adjunct professor at the Macquarie Graduate School of Management and the author of Leadership Transformed: How Ordinary Managers Become Extraordinary Leaders (Amazon Publishing, 2013).

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Richard Badham is a professor of management and an associate dean at the Macquarie Graduate School of Management.

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