NEW YORK—Oct. 19, 2021—Morgan James’ new release, Crucible Leadership: Embrace Your Trials to Lead a Life of Significance, by Warwick Fairfax. Authors of business and leadership books tend to avoid discussing their failures. But Warwick Fairfax learned long ago that talking about falling short fuels soaring higher and is critical to living a life and a calling all our own.
In Crucible Leadership: Embrace Your Trials to Lead a Life of Significance, Fairfax reveals for the first time the details of one of the most infamous corporate failures in the history of his home country of Australia: his unsuccessful late ’80s bid, at age 26, to take over the media dynasty started by his great-great grandfather in the 1840s. The loss came at the enormous financial cost of $2.25 billion; worse was the emotional and reputational cost of unrelenting media ridicule so severe it played a major part in his moving to the U.S. in the early ’90s to escape it.
“I had tried to restore John Fairfax’s vision for the company that had been in our family for 150 years,” Fairfax says now. “Instead, my actions ended the family legacy.”
But in the years that followed, as he began to learn the lessons his trials were teaching him, he came to realize being a media tycoon was not the legacy he wanted to leave. His takeover bid was the last in a series of actions he had undertaken to pursue a destiny he had inherited, not crafted as his own, actions which included graduating from Oxford like his father and other forbears and getting his MBA from Harvard Business School.
“I began to form my own vision for my life, anchored in my unique wiring and giftings, and realized I’m a reflective adviser who wants to help others move beyond their setbacks and failures by sharing what I learned from mine,” Fairfax explains. “I’ve found the outlet to do that through Crucible Leadership.”
Fairfax founded the philosophical and life practice to inspire and guide others in turning their own past trials into their greatest assets for living and leading their own lives of significance. The book presents a pathway for that pursuit, beginning with Fairfax’s exploration of the lessons he gleaned from the failed takeover and continuing with what he’s learned from family members who came before him and some of history’s greatest leaders.
“Warwick Fairfax weaves together history and his own fascinating life experience to offer a series of vital leadership insights,” notes Nancy Koehn, James E. Robison chair of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and author of Forged in Crisis: The Power of Courageous Leadership in Turbulent Times. “Whether you are responsible for a company, a foundation, an arts organization, or a government agency, you will find nuggets of leadership gold in this book.”
For a review copy of the book, and to interview Warwick Fairfax, contact Gary Schneeberger at gary@WeRoar.LA or 818-309-8580.
More About This Title: Crucible Leadership: Embrace Your Trials to Lead a Life of Significance, by Warwick Fairfax, will be released by Mount Tabor Media/Morgan James Publishing on October 19, 2021. Crucible Leadership —9781631954764 —has 296 pages and is being sold as a trade paperback for $21.95
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