Dancing with Monsters: A Tale About Leadership, Success, and Overcoming Fears

Is fear limiting your leadership potential? Dancing with Monsters will inspire you to overcome your fears and optimize your key relationships by leveraging humility, authenticity, and kindness. Fears and discomfort slow us down and sometimes completely derail our personal progress. As leaders at work, we can similarly be knocked off course by the conflict, personality differences, motivational issues, and performance problems within our teams. These obstacles are the monsters in our lives.

In Dancing with Monsters, globally recognized leadership educator, author, and speaker Todd Dewett, PhD, offers an enthralling, fast-paced fable that examines how to embrace those monsters in order to harness you and your team's true power. Joe is a depressed vampire at risk of losing his monster status due to poor performance. He is tasked with leading a group of misfit monsters who lack confidence. Sheets, Mum, Wolfy, and Z have not yet learned to do the one thing all monsters do: scare kids. Dancing with Monsters tells the story of their collective efforts, missteps included, toward connecting with their authentic selves. This captivating story plus Dewett's discussion and reflection prompts add up to a must-read guide to reclaiming your better self by learning to dance with your monsters.

About the Author

Dr. Todd Dewett is a globally recognized leadership educator, author, and speaker. After working with Andersen Consulting and Ernst & Young, he completed his PhD at Texas A&M University in Organizational Behaviour and enjoyed 10 years as an award-winning professor. He's delivered over 1,000 speeches around the world and created a library of courses enjoyed by millions of professionals in nearly every country on earth. His clients include Microsoft, IBM, GE, Pepsi, and ExxonMobil.

Reviews

“This exciting, quick-moving fable has all the important lessons of a 300-page textbook many leadership and business programs would assign to their students... But Dr. Todd Dewett doesn't stop with the fable. He closes with practical advice leaders in all industries and levels need to take seriously and leaves us with helpful reflection questions to guide our discussions on this book, unpack the lessons, and plan out our future leadership solutions.” —Chrissy Roth-Francis, Ed.D., Director of Talent Development, LinkedIn

“Todd is an authentic storyteller! I started reading it and couldn’t stop! He talks about the fundamentals of leadership in the most engaging way! I can see Dancing with Monsters becoming THE business book for workshops and coaching interventions and that’s how I am personally intending to use it. He talks about the psychology of fear without becoming psychological and how it can be a leader’s Achilles Heel.” —Dr. Maria Katsarou-Makin, Founder, Leadership Psychology Institute

“This book is an incredibly fun yet deeply insightful journey into understanding these dynamics, along with a very pragmatic point of view on how to move forward from where you are. Todd’s ability to cut through the surface and get to the root of leadership derailers comes through in his writing here as well as he does in his live seminars.” —Bob Kalka, Global Vice-President, IBM Security, and Author of The Emotionally Authentic Christian

Dimensions: 14.61 x 1.93 x 21.59 cm