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TOM FINEGAN
AMPLIFIERS
HOW GREAT LEADERS MAGNIFY THE POWER OF TEAMS, INCREASE THE IMPACT OF ORGANIZATIONS, AND TURN UP THEVOLUME ONPOSITIVE CHANGE
Copyright © 2021 by Thomas Finegan. All rights reserved.
Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.
Published simultaneously in Canada.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Finegan, Tom, author.
Title: Amplifiers : how great leaders magnify the power of teams, increase the impact of organizations, and turn up the volume on positive change / Tom Finegan.
Description: Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley, [2021] | Includes index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2021016723 (print) | LCCN 2021016724 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119794554 (cloth) | ISBN 9781119794578 (adobe pdf) | ISBN 9781119794561 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: Leadership. | Followership.
Classification: LCC HD57.7 .F5555 2021 (print) | LCC HD57.7 (ebook) | DDC 658.4/092—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021016723
LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021016724
COVER DESIGN: PAUL MCCARTHY
COVER ART: © GETTY IMAGES | PIXALOT
This book is dedicated to Bobby Menges (October 21, 1997–September 8, 2017), a true Amplifier throughout his shortened life. He packed more in his nineteen years than most in their lifetimes.
All of the author's proceeds from this book will be donated to the I'm Not Done Yet Foundation, a 501(c)3 in support of adolescent and young adult (AYA) cancer patients and their families.
www.imnotdoneyetfoundation.org
Introduction
During a family trip to Sweden a few years ago, I came across the historical Vasa. The Swedish warship from the 1600s stands as an enormous symbol of leadership and followership gone awry. Gustav II Adolf was the King of Sweden between 1611 and 1632. He commissioned the construction of four ships to support his war effort, with one being the most powerful warship in the Baltic. The ship was doomed from the design. The hubris of the king and the enormity of the ship were too much for the ship's lead designer, Henrik Hybertsson. Although he was an experienced ship designer, the size and scale were beyond Hybertsson’s experience. However, he designed what the king wanted.
Although it was common for warships in the period to be somewhat top heavy, the experts at the shipyard were convinced that there was too much