The Leadership Lens by Suj Munir, book cover

The Leadership Lens

Twelve months to observe, reflect, shape and create

A free book by Suj Munir

Leadership is not what we do. It is how we see. Before decisions are made, before words are spoken, leadership has already taken shape. This is a year of practice in seeing clearly: twelve months through four seasons, and the four forces that leadership is made of.

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What it is

There is no model to apply and no score to reach. Each chapter opens on a scene you will recognise, then asks one question at a time about how you actually lead. Read a chapter a month, and let the year do the work.

At the heart of the book is a simple lens: four forces, judgement, direction, identity and attention, and the four regions where they meet. The book does not measure you against it. It asks you to notice, over a year, where your leadership tends to sit, which forces take over under pressure, and which are consistently underused.

It was written for leaders who have grown more proficient and less certain, and who suspect the answer is not another technique.

The leadership lens: judgement, direction, identity and attention
The leadership lens

Inside the book

Observe

  1. Seeing Leadership Clearly
  2. Self-Leadership and Identity
  3. Presence, Attention and Signal

Reflect

  1. Judgement in an Age of Noise
  2. Ethics, Responsibility, and Trust
  3. Learning, Metacognition, and Growth

Shape

  1. Strategic Direction in Unstable Systems
  2. Influence Without Control
  3. Leading Change in a Technological Age

Create

  1. Purpose and What You Are Building
  2. Leading with Others
  3. Leadership Revisited

157 pages. A sentence a week is all it asks you to write.

Read the first month first

If you would rather see it before you give an email address, here is the cover, the contents and the whole of Month 1.

Read Month 1

About the author

Suj Munir is a Scottish educator who has spent over a decade in leadership positions in international education, most of it in the United Arab Emirates. He has taught, led schools as a senior leader, and inspected international schools; at the Ministry of Education in the UAE he worked on inspection, school improvement and educational reform. He now works for GEMS Education and is the founder of Archema Labs.

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