The Leadership Codex
Book IV — Transform the Organization
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What can Bernini teach you about momentum — and Turner about leading change?
Transform the Organization is the fourth of five books in The Leadership Codex, a fifty-chapter journey where each chapter delivers one field-tested leadership tool and one masterpiece of art.
This fourth book is where leadership stops running the machine and starts changing it. Ten chapters explore building innovation ecosystems, leading change and transformation, strategic patience and timing, the architecture of momentum, simplicity as a superpower, creating scalable cultures, cross-cultural and global leadership, building strategic partnerships, designing for resilience, and measuring what matters.
Every chapter is anchored in a real case, read as evidence rather than anecdote — from Kodak and Alibaba to the iPhone, Niki Lauda's 1976 season, the BIC Cristal, the Roman roads, Walmart in Germany, Thomas Cook, and the rise and corruption of the Net Promoter Score — and closes with a practical framework born from sixteen years of leading international, multicultural operations across the Americas, Europe, and Asia.
And each chapter ends before a work of art: Monet, Turner, Dalí, Bernini, Picasso, Meireles, Holbein, Leonardo — ten works, read slowly, the way a leader must learn to read a transformation, attentive to the movement everyone else mistakes for noise.
One chapter, one tool, one work of art — fifty times, across five books. This is the fourth.
Carlos Contreras is a Chilean executive who has led multicultural teams of several hundred people through complex, large-scale operations. He teaches Project Management and Leadership at ISC Paris Business School.
Details
- Publication Date
- Aug 17, 2026
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9791098853036
- Category
- Business & Economics
- Copyright
- All Rights Reserved - Standard Copyright License
- Contributors
- By (author): Carlos Contreras
Specifications
- Pages
- 172
- Binding Type
- Paperback Perfect Bound
- Interior Color
- Black & White
- Dimensions
- US Trade (6 x 9 in / 152 x 229 mm)
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