The Radical LEAP: extreme leadership at work and beyond: introducing Steve Farber, general session keynote speaker.(NACM'S 110TH CREDIT CONGRESS & EXPOSITION)(Excerpt)

In this chaotic and extreme age, business leaders must demonstrate an unprecedented level of passion, determination, foresight, dedication and fearlessness. People won't follow empty rhetoric, but they will respond to significant, meaningful and dramatic action. As an Extreme Leader, you need the ability to influence, the power to transform and the courage to change the world of your company, your customers and your industry.

Extreme Leadership according to Steve Farber:

"Everybody calls himself or herself a leader nowadays. We used to go to 'management training,' and now we go to 'leadership training.' We are team leaders, program leaders, project leaders, thought leaders, market leaders and cheerleaders. We are political leaders and we are community leaders. We lead our companies, we lead our families and we lead our lives."

"We have diluted the meaning of leadership to such a profound degree that it's become just another label. But leadership is not that easy, so we con ourselves into believing that the word is the same as the action."

"The ability to lead doesn't come from a snappy vocabulary. Leadership is ...