Leo Bottary

Our value proposition is born of three immutable truths: 1) Culture matters. It’s at the core of an organization’s capacity to achieve long-term productivity. 2) “Can do” cultures are driven by people—by peer influence. It’s what runs horizontally through your company that strengthens what’s vertical. It always has. 3) Agility stimulates adaptability and resilience, helping an organization confront anything that’s thrown its way with flexibility and confidence.

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Our value proposition is born of three immutable truths: 1) Culture matters. It’s at the core of an organization’s capacity to achieve long-term productivity. 2) “Can do” cultures are driven by people—by peer influence. It’s what runs horizontally through your company that strengthens what’s vertical. It always has. 3) Agility stimulates adaptability and resilience, helping an organization confront anything that’s thrown its way with flexibility and confidence.

The One Advantage brings innovative approaches to how we will address the challenges and seize the opportunities of our fast-changing world. By triangulating well-documented insights at the intersection of culture, peer power, and agility, we create synergies that increase employee ownership, bring an organization’s purpose and core values to life, empower people to identify opportunity in adversity, and help teams act with greater clarity. This short e-book will introduce you to how bringing The One Advantage to your team will help you inspire them to new heights and chart your course for the future of work.

Endorsements

“I love The One Advantage as an expression of my “Working Together” approach I used at Ford and Boeing. It is the only competitive advantage you really have.”
Alan Mulally, former CEO, Ford Motor Company, Boeing Commercial Airplanes, and Boeing Defense and Space Systems

“It’s so engaging that it’s even led me to switch off my phone for several hours so I can read it, and in this social media obsessed age, I don’t think I can give a bigger recommendation than that. The book is great. It’s real, it’s authentic. Very practical and very, very helpful. Let’s all ask active, open questions—and stay hopeful, as the book suggests.”
Prof. Dr. Amarendra Bhushan Dhiraj, CEO and Editorial Director at CEOWORLD magazine. Show less

“Peernovation” combines the words peer (people) and innovation (creativity realized). It embraces lessons from more than a decade of academic research, fieldwork, and personal experiences throughout North America and the United Kingdom. “In today's divisive society, we need to reassure business leaders and their employees that we're all in this together. Realizing our greatest aspirations will only happen if we embrace our diversity and work as one. By leveraging best practices from CEO and… Show more

“Peernovation” combines the words peer (people) and innovation (creativity realized). It embraces lessons from more than a decade of academic research, fieldwork, and personal experiences throughout North America and the United Kingdom. “In today's divisive society, we need to reassure business leaders and their employees that we're all in this together. Realizing our greatest aspirations will only happen if we embrace our diversity and work as one. By leveraging best practices from CEO and executive peer advisory groups, 'Peernovation' shows us how to do that, whether our teams work virtually or in-person,” Bottary states. The book is designed for leaders who want to coach engaged, adaptable and higher-performing teams. Here, they will learn to:

• select the right people for your team
• create psychological safety and inspire greater productivity
• build a positive culture of accountability
• become a better team leader
• foster a robust learning-achieving cycle

Forbes publisher and futurist Rich Karlgaard noted, “In a post-COVID world, and with the emergence of AI across even more industries, "Peernovation" reminds us of what doesn’t change - our humanity and our ability to collaborate and create. These will be the keys to thriving in the decades to come.”
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Most of us don’t seek advice or reach out to others for help very easily. In part, it’s because we’re conditioned to see life as an individual endeavor rather than a team sport. Or because we believe that asking for help makes us look weak or incapable. We regard self-help as by-yourself-help. News flash: no one in the history of the world has ever achieved any level of happiness or success totally by themselves.

In his 1976 book The Long Run Solution, Joe Henderson suggested that… Show more

Most of us don’t seek advice or reach out to others for help very easily. In part, it’s because we’re conditioned to see life as an individual endeavor rather than a team sport. Or because we believe that asking for help makes us look weak or incapable. We regard self-help as by-yourself-help. News flash: no one in the history of the world has ever achieved any level of happiness or success totally by themselves.

In his 1976 book The Long Run Solution, Joe Henderson suggested that becoming truly accomplished at running (or at anything) doesn’t typically require us to perform superhuman feats. In fact, success is frequently realized by those who simply do the things anyone can do that most of us never will.

In What Anyone Can Do, with the help of Leo Bottary’s Year of the Peer podcasts guests (and playful illustrations by Ryan Foland), you’ll discover that if you surround yourself with the right people, you’ll do the things anyone can do far more often. And when you do that, you and the people around you will realize more of what you want out of business and life. It’s that simple.

The Power of Peers (2016) made a strong case for how and why formal peer groups are so effective. This book steps outside the formal peer group arena to examine all the important relationships we have in our lives (parents, teachers, spouses, mentors, children, mentees, etc.) and provides a practical approach and specific framework for harnessing their power for your benefit (and theirs). It’s what anyone can do. You’re anyone, right? Show less

The most accomplished business leaders exchange information and ideas. They network to make deals and build partnerships. They work together to establish best practices, and they reach out to leaders outside their companies to accelerate growth. Simply put, CEOs and business leaders provide value to one another that they can’t find anywhere else.

In The Power of Peers, authors Leon Shapiro and Leo Bottary introduce peer advantage, a concept that transcends the familiar concept of peer… Show more

The most accomplished business leaders exchange information and ideas. They network to make deals and build partnerships. They work together to establish best practices, and they reach out to leaders outside their companies to accelerate growth. Simply put, CEOs and business leaders provide value to one another that they can’t find anywhere else.

In The Power of Peers, authors Leon Shapiro and Leo Bottary introduce peer advantage, a concept that transcends the familiar concept of peer influence. Peer advantage allows executives to leverage the collective wisdom of a diverse set of leaders, creating a superior vantage point for meeting challenges and identifying future opportunities. Because peer advantage is a joint endeavor, the authors identify five essential factors for any CEO peer advisory group looking to exploit the benefits of peer advantage:

• Select the right peers
• Create a safe environment
• Utilize a smart guide
• Foster valuable interaction
• Be accountable

Featuring stories of business leaders from a range of industries, The Power of Peers examines these five factors in practice, showing how peer advantage impacts personal growth and why it has proven such an effective business tool. Equipped with this essential information, leaders can effectively amplify the resource that growth-oriented executives have relied upon for decades to be successful in business and in life: the power of peers. Show less