Bill Treasurer

Leadership is the most overanalyzed, thoroughly dissected, and utterly confused topic in business. In Leaders Open Doors, author Bill Treasurer helps lighten the leadership load by distilling that leaders are simply creators of opportunity for others. Using personal stories and anecdotes, Treasurer presents the idea of open-door leadership–that is, the responsibility that leaders have for noticing, identifying, and creating opportunities for the benefit of people, organizations, and society. Each chapter includes useful and specific tips that can immediately be put into practice.
Drawing on two decades of consulting experience, Treasurer introduces six unique opportunity doors:

the proving-ground door
the thought-shifting door
the door to a second chance
the doors you open for others
the door to personal transformation
the door to your open heart

Treasurer shows that leadership isn’t a complex and abstract concept. It’s a set of practices and ideals passed from one person to another, across organizations and generations. It is a tradition that makes people’s lives better by opening doors of opportunities for them to thrive, achieve, and lead.

From Publishers Weekly: Teamwork and leadership consultant Treasurer here encourages readers to take risks calculated to catapult them out of the lukewarm safety of mediocrity and into "an intimate encounter with the magnificence of their own souls." He chooses intriguing anecdotes, often from his seven years as a member of the U.S. High Diving Team... to illustrate how to take good risks... He offers 10 principles to encourage such healthy risks, from "finding your golden silence" ...to "exposing yourself" emotionally... His clear, colloquial chapters encourage readers to overcome inertia, write "risk scripts" and turn fear into a positive force. Admonitions to go ahead and be imperfect and embrace the possibilities inherent in risks-whether they're professional or personal-should spark many readers to vow to live more deliberately, energetically and authentically, and the questions Treasurer poses to readers at each chapter's conclusion are helpful tools for self-guidance.

Courage is the elemental, but often overlooked, key to business success. But how do you create a courageous workforce? How can you, as a manager, help your workers to take risks, confront crises, and deal with company and industry changes? Bill Treasurer shows how to systematically develop courage in your employees, just like you develop any other workplace skill. He draws on his years as a top courage-building consultant to offer a proven approach for inspiring workers to leave their comfort zones and harness their fears so they step up to challenges more readily. Ultimately, a courageous workforce is a more energetic, innovative, and productive workforce.