Opportunity Leadership: Stop Planning and Start Getting Results

Don't create change. Capture it.Get ready to forget everything you know about "working your plan." In this counterintuitive book, innovative university president Roger Parrott turns leadership on its head and shows you how unexpected opportunities--the ones you may be missing--are the key to your success.With an Opportunity Leadership mindset, you'll see God-directed results like never before. In plain language, Dr. Parrott guides you in developing six traits to focus your leadership outlook on untapped opportunities. Not only that, he provides a step-by-step plan for you to create six organization-wide tendencies that enable your team to respond to opportunities with expediency, adeptness, and energy.ReviewPraise for Opportunity LeadershipThis is an incredibly important book that flies in the face of almost everything you’ve been taught about the importance of strategic planning. Roger Parrott wants you to forget for a moment all of the tedious and all-consuming planning that leadership gurus want you to do, and cut yourself loose to see and embrace the opportunities right in front of you. It has been said that sometimes “we can’t see the forest for the trees”-but it is also true that sometimes we can’t see the most important “trees” because we are obsessed by the forest. As the CEO of multiple organizations over my career, I can tell you that virtually all of my “breakthrough moments” had little to do with strategic planning and everything to do with looking, listening, and being available to the opportunities God had placed right in front of me. Do yourself a favor and read Opportunity Leadership.-RICHARD STEARNSPresident Emeritus, World Vision US; author of Lead Like It Matters to God and The Hole in Our GospelDuring my time at Krispy Kreme, I would have loved having Dr. Parrott’sOpportunity Leadership as a guidebook for our 2008-2016 corporate turnaround. We did not have the luxury of developing five-year plans . . . in the words of Dr. Parrott, we attempted to lead by “capturing opportunities rather than building plans.” To echo Dr. Parrott’s theme in this must-read book, I learned the following: If we bury our heads in planning, we are likely to miss the greatest of God’s opportunities! At last, someone has written a leadership book for both today and tomorrow!-JIM MORGANFormer President, Krispy KremeLeaders must get out front and make decisions-especially during times of crisis,opportunity, challenge, or danger. Our decisions won’t always be right because we face forces beyond our control, but the most effective leaders don’t slow down or retreat. Instead, they learn to make adjustments without losing momentum. I’ve watched Roger lead Belhaven University with courage and decisiveness, and I am thankful he’s written a guide for others to follow through the storms of leadership.-HALEY BARBOURGovernor of Mississippi, 2004-2012This book is directing you to a level of inspirational leadership that you didn’t expect was possible. Incarnational thinking is coming to the end of what you know about something, and you receive the light of the knowledge of God to solve the problem. This book is adding a major leadership principle to our vision. I’m so thankful and encouraged by my dear friend Roger, and his book is something we need to listen to-this book is timely.-JOHN PERKINSAuthor of Let Justice Roll Down and He Calls Me FriendOpportunity Leadership is an exciting, paradigm-shifting book. It takes everything you ever learned in business school and turns it upside down. Kingdom work takes not only leadership acumen but the courage and faith to follow where God leads. Roger Parrott’s ability to inspire you, challenge you, and train you in a new way of thinking will impact your ministry and those you lead for years to come.-SHAUNTI FELDHAHNSocial researcher; author of For Women Only and The Kindness ChallengeRoger Parrott is one of the most impressive leaders I’ve ever met. And n