Who’s Holding Your Ladder?: Selecting Your Leaders: Leadership’s Most Critical Decision

Most organizational mistakes can be avoided, or certainly minimized, by understanding one principle:
The most important decision you will ever make as a leader is selecting the leaders around you.
The fact is, the people who have brought you this far, however well-meaning, may not be the right people to take you into the future. Who's Holding Your Ladder? reminds us that the height and fulfillment of any visionary leader are contingent on whoever is holding his or her ladder.
With Dr. Chand's help, you will discover...

• That without a ladder-holder, you can climb only to a certain level.
• That with the right ladder-holders, you can go much higher.
• That as organizational vision increases, the need for another type of ladder-holder increases.
• The essential qualities all first-rate ladder-holders must possess.
• The fact that leaders and managers both play critical roles; however, knowing the difference between these roles will lead to proper people placement.
• How to turn ladder-holders into ladder-climbers.

"Chand's keen insights and vast leadership exposure have prepared him well for forecasting and setting leadership directions."
--John Maxwell

Sam Chand’s singular vision for his life is to help others succeed. A prolific author and renowned international consultant, he speaks regularly at leadership conferences, corporations, business roundtables, seminars, and other leadership development opportunities.
Being raised in a pastor’s home in India has uniquely equipped Sam to share his passion to mentor, develop, and inspire leaders to break all limits. He has been called a dream releaser, leadership architect, and change strategist.
In the 1970s, as a student at Beulah Heights College, Sam served as a janitor, cook, and dishwasher to finance his education. He returned in 1989 as president--and under his leadership, Beulah Heights University became the country’s largest predominantly African-American Christian college.
Sam holds an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Beulah Heights University, an honorary Doctor of Divinity from Heritage Bible College, a Master of Arts in Biblical Counseling from Grace Theological Seminary, and a Bachelor of Arts in Biblical Education from Beulah Heights. He has mentored leaders in churches and ministries as well as international corporations and business start-ups. He was named one of the top thirty global leadership gurus by www.leadershipgurus.net.
Sam has authored more than a dozen books on leadership, including Culture Catalyst, Bigger Faster Leadership, Leadership Pain, Who’s Holding Your Ladder?, What’s Shakin’ Your Ladder?, and 12 Success Factors of an Organization.
For more information or to connect with Sam, please visit www.samchand.com.