Based on cutting-edge academic research, insights from his extensive executive coaching practice, and lessons he has learned from over seventy-five interviews conducted with top CEOs, bestselling authors, and TED speakers, Craig Dowden's A Time to Lead provides an inspiring and practical roadmap to maximizing your potential to be the leader the world needs you to be.Being a leader has never been easy. Today, the responsibility is even more daunting. Now, leadership stretches well beyond managing our balance sheets. It also includes managing social, environmental, and emotional concerns. Most importantly, to be a successful leader, we must be able to successfully lead ourselves. This book shows you the way. To successfully navigate the current and future terrain of leadership, we must be able to successfully lead ourselves. This is the fundamental premise of A Time to Lead: Mastering Your Self… So You Can Master Your World. Written by best-selling ForbesBooks author, Craig Dowden (PhD), A Time to Lead makes the case that the best leaders possess an advanced understanding of the inner workings of our minds and our hearts. Dowden highlights the importance of mindset and how we can stay in growth mode, and he talks about how we can avoid a major blind spot and common derailer for most executives-our emotions. A Time to Lead sheds light on the scientific secrets of resilience as well as how we can discover and leverage our strengths. It provides insights into how we can receive feedback well so we can continue to have the impact we desire. Dowden closes with the importance and challenges of authentic leadership and outlines key reflection questions, which enable us to bring our true selves to every situation.