Pre-order Releases Jul 20, 2027
Engineering Character: Six Dials to Build a Better Brand of Leadership
by John Lentini
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About the book
Engineering Character
Leadership is not about charisma, luck, or circumstances beyond your control.
It is about Character. And Character is not inherited… it is engineered.
For close to three decades, John Lentini has led in the world's most demanding environments: surviving 9/11 at the World Trade Center, managing crisis during the Fukushima nuclear disaster, building teams across six continents, and navigating the toxic politics of corporate leadership. Through these experiences, he discovered that effective and ethical leaders must operate a simple control panel with six dials:
- Three dials to lead yourself: Discipline, Mindset, and Resilience.
- Three dials to lead others: Integrity, Empathy, and Influence.
Engineering Character breaks down how to calibrate each dial, how they interact as a system, and most importantly -- why the template you create becomes the template future leaders will follow. Illustrated through historical icons from Hannibal to Mandela, this is not aspirational theory. It is a diagnostic system for building leaders who last.
The question is not whether Character can be engineered. It is whether you will engineer it intentionally or leave it to chance.
The book, Engineering Character: Six Dials to Build a Better Brand of Leadership [Bulk, Wholesale, Quantity] ISBN#9781637635902 in Hardcover by John Lentini may be ordered in bulk quantities. Minimum starts at 25 copies. Availability based on publisher status and quantity being ordered.
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Details
- Publisher
- Forefront Books
- Author
- John Lentini
- Format
- Hardcover
- Release date
- Jul 20, 2027
- ISBN-13
- 9781637635902
- ISBN-10
- 1637635907
- Pages
- 256
- Carton quantity
- 20 copies
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| Copies | Price per copy | You save |
|---|---|---|
| 25 – 99 | $16.52 | 41% off list |
| 100 – 249 | $15.68 | 44% off list |
| 250 – 499 | $14.84 | 47% off list |
| 500 – 999 | $14.28 | 49% off list |
| 1,000+ | $13.72 | 51% off list |
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