
Radical Inclusion
What the Post-9/11 World Should Have Taught Us About Leadership
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Alex Hyde-White
Named by The Washington Post as one of the 11 Leadership Books to Read in 2018
Forty-one-year Army veteran General (Ret.) Martin Dempsey and 41-year-old UC Berkeley associate professor Ori Brafman have been friends for almost 10 years. Though they have almost nothing in common, their collaboration has produced a powerful message. Their new book, Radical Inclusion, examines today’s leadership landscape and describes the change it demands of leaders.
Dempsey and Brafman persuasively explain that today’s leaders are in competition for the trust and confidence of those they lead more than ever before. They assert that the nature of power is changing and should not be measured by degree of control alone. They offer principles for adaptation and bring them to life with examples from business, academia, government, and the military.
In building their argument, Dempsey and Brafman introduce several concepts that illuminate both the vulnerability and the opportunity in leading today:
- Radical Inclusion. Fear of losing control in our fast-paced, complex, highly scrutinized environment is pushing us toward exclusion - exactly the wrong direction. Leaders should instead develop an instinct for inclusion. The word “radical” emphasizes the urgency of doing so.
- The Era of the Digital Echo. The speed and accessibility of information create “digital echoes” that make facts vulnerable, eroding the trust between leader and follower.
- Relinquishing Control to Preserve Power. Power and control once went hand in hand, but no longer. In today’s environment, control is seductive but unlikely to produce optimum, affordable, sustainable solutions. Leaders must relinquish and share control to build and preserve power.
The principles discussed in Radical Inclusion are memorable and the book is full of engaging stories.
©2018 Martin Dempsey, Ori Brafman (P)2018 MissiondayListeners also enjoyed...




















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This feels like a long setup for a second book that talks about how. I'd rather be convinced and educated in one book rather than convinced in one and educated in another. You can pull several actionable ideas out of here, but you'll have to take the examples, break them down into their key characteristics, and then build up feasible actions within your business that feature the same characteristics. Ideas like creating shared memories, the power of physical tokens connected to shared experience, and repeating the same idea differently depending on your audience (at one point it's mentioned how well read Dempsey was and how he used literary experiences to restate ideas and I thought we were going to get examples of that, but no).
Certainly one book can't effectively teach all of the skills necessary to instill radical inclusion effectively in a large organization (risk, prioritization, communication, etc.), but the author, who is effective at all of these things, should stop anywhere the execution of his key principle requires certain skills he's developed and at least provide reference to materials that he used or that will help develop those skills in others.
Perhaps a business parable could do just that in the near future where a senior leader helps a junior leader in a branch office spread radical inclusion deeply throughout their organization.
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