Dane Hudson
‘A really well-written, thoughtful, insightful and — as you would expect — disciplined guide to the vagaries of leadership and how to deal with them.’
– Tom Bradby, ITV News presenter and bestselling author
Discipline Beats Vision: how to be the leader your company needs – starting Monday, is published by Wiley, out now
WHY THIS BOOK IS IMPORTANT
· Vision gets a business off the ground, but discipline is what scales it. Many technical founders have incredible product vision but fail to scale because they lack structured systems.
· Contains real-world examples to support the learnings of the book, including unique experiences from death threats to multi-million-dollar losses.
· Author Dane Hudson is a seasoned international leader who provides coaching, mentoring and advisory services to CEOs, Founders and C-level leaders through his company, Impactful Leadership.
· This book distils 25+ years of Dane’s CEO experience and founder mentoring into Monday-ready frameworks, templates and scripts you can implement immediately.
Dane Hudson has led through situations most leadership authors have only read about. In over 25 years as a global CEO, Dane has faced extreme business and personal crises -from death threats and driving a bullet-proof car, to media scrutiny and public crisis management.
After mentoring founders and CEOs for the last six years, Dane repeatedly saw highly intelligent and ambitious leaders struggling not because of weak vision, but because they lacked disciplined leadership approaches as their companies scaled. Vision inspires, but disciplined leadership behaviours are what turn that vision into reality. In Discipline Beats Vision, Dane has distilled all he has learnt across his extraordinary career into an accessible leadership framework. Tried and tested, the lessons in this book have helped more than 150 Founder CEOs and 900 C-level leaders scale their businesses without losing their culture, their investors, or themselves.
Structured around the real leadership journey of scaling a company, this book combines real-world stories, practical frameworks, tools, and templates that demystify leadership and make it practical, behavioural, and immediately actionable. Whether you’re a founder, business owner or C-suite leader, Discipline Beats Vision is a practical leadership handbook for those seeking to grow alongside their businesses and expanding responsibilities. Grounded in a discipline-first approach, it offers the tools and frameworks that distinguish founders who scale successfully and those that stall.
Designed to accelerate leadership growth, this book aims to alleviate pressure and help solve the challenges aspiring leaders face through changing behaviours and becoming more impactful. Covering everything from building trust and accountability and embedding culture, to managing boards, expanding internationally, and leading through crisis, every chapter finishes with a “Monday Ready” challenge designed to move readers from insight to immediate action.
The operating system that takes you from technical brilliance to people leadership, Discipline Beats Vision provides the complete playbook for your next stage of growth. Optimism and talent only get you so far, discipline will take you to the next level.