High Altitude Leadership: What the World’s Most Forbidding Peaks Teach Us About Success

Leadership lessons from the world's most difficult expeditions

This new approach to leadership development is based on groundbreaking scientific research, has been field-tested under the most brutal conditions on the most difficult summits, and has been successfully applied in the training of executives, management teams, and entrepreneurs throughout the world. Each chapter of The Leadership Summit takes one core lesson and approaches it from three points of view. First, the authors introduce a key leadership risk learned from expeditions in the Himalayas and Andes. Then they bring these lessons to the world of business, with examples from their experiences in coaching entrepreneurs and business management teams. Finally, the authors look at the science behind these winning strategies, exploring these principles at their fundamental level. Each chapter concludes with a workbook-style summary, laying out the chapter's key points as a summarized, plan-of-attack blueprint. The proven advice in The Leadership Summit will help the reader master the courage and skill to approach leadership from a practical perspective, overcome persistent barriers to performance, understand the source of dysfunctional behaviors that plague organizations and learn how to redirect them into productive results, understand why chronic management problems exist and what to do about them, and ultimately enrich profits, markets, and organizational culture.

Chris Warner (Columbia, MD) is one of the most recognized names in mountain climbing and a successful entrepreneur. Chris is founder of Earth Treks Inc., which operates three full-service climbing centers and is partnered with the Wharton Leadership Ventures Program. Donald Schmincke (Towson, MD) has been a pioneer in leadership development and organizational dynamics for the past 25 years. His 1997 book, The Code of the CEO, was an 800CEORead.com top ten bestseller in 2005.