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Based on interviews with leaders in 61 organizations in 11 countries, comprehensive research, and the authors’ extensive experience across many industries and sectors, Triple Crown Leadership will help you:
- Build an organization or team that’s excellent, ethical, and enduring.
- Recruit, develop, and reward people much more effectively.
- Set an inspiring shared purpose, values, and vision and then bring them to life in the organization.
- Flex your leadership approach to address the specific situation you’re facing.
- Build a high-performance organizational culture.
- Align your organization or team for peak performance.
The book provides you with advanced leadership practices so you can achieve exceptional results with integrity—and over time. It addresses leading people, leadership versatility, culture, alignment, avoiding breakdowns, and leading in specific circumstances (startups, turnarounds, and social enterprises).
✅ Learn how to build a culture of excellence, ethics, and enduring impact.
✅ Discover actionable tools for leaders at all levels.
✅ Based on real-world interviews with leaders from Google, Mayo Clinic, eBay, and more.
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Who Is Triple Crown Leadership For?
Want to improve your leadership? Seeking a better way to lead? Want to get great results the right way? Want to have a positive impact and lead responsibly? Triple Crown Leadership is for aspiring or existing leaders across sectors (public, private, and nonprofit):
- CEOs and Executive Directors
- Senior executives
- Managers
- Entrepreneurs
- Social entrepreneurs and changemakers
- Board members
- Aspiring and emerging leaders
- Consultants
- Students
What Readers Are Saying
Triple Crown Leadership has struck a chord with leaders across sectors—from business and nonprofits to education and government. Readers consistently praise the book’s rare combination of practical guidance, ethical grounding, and real-world stories. Many describe it as a blueprint for building organizations that are not only high-performing but also values-driven and built to last. The book resonates with both seasoned executives and emerging leaders who are hungry for a more principled approach to leadership.
Whether you’re a CEO, team leader, or someone striving to make a meaningful difference, Triple Crown Leadership offers the tools and inspiration to raise your leadership sights.
Meet the Authors
Gregg Vanourek is co-author of three influential books, including Triple Crown Leadership (a winner of the International Book Awards) and LIFE Entrepreneurs (a manifesto for living with purpose and passion). He runs a personal development and leadership company and teaches at the Stockholm Business School. He was a senior executive at a tech startup, now a market leader with $1 billion in sales. Gregg has given a TEDx talk and talks or workshops in eight countries and he’s a graduate of the Yale School of Management (MBA), London School of Economics and Political Science (M.Sc), and Claremont McKenna College (B.A., magna cum laude).
Bob Vanourek, now retired, has led global New York Stock Exchange companies, including Sensormatic and Recognition Equipment, through transformational turnarounds as CEO. Bob has served as an officer of two divisions of Pitney Bowes and Avery International. Bob has taught leadership at the University of Denver and Colorado Mountain College, and is an honors graduate of Harvard Business School and Princeton University.
More Leadership Resources
- List of people and organizations interviewed for the book—including edited transcripts of many of the interviews.
- Endorsements of the book (full set).
- Q&A with the authors.
- Sample Chapters from the book, including the Foreword by Stephen R. Covey & Stephen M. R. Covey, Introduction, and Chapter One.
- Leadership Derailers Assessment to help you identify what’s inhibiting your leadership effectiveness.
- Personal Values Exercise to help you determine and clarify what’s most important to you.
- Alignment Scorecard to help you assess your organization’s level of alignment or dysfunction.
- Gregg’s Personal Development and Leadership Excellence newsletter. Sign up here to join our community and get monthly updates.
- Our Best Leadership Articles, including articles on self-leadership, leadership derailers, ethical leadership, servant leadership, culture, & developing people.
- A-to-Z Guide to Good Leadership Practices. Everything you want to know about good leadership, all in one place, with links to relevant articles.
- Recommended Books on Leadership (as personal development, sustainability, entrepreneurship, and ethics).
- Recommended Leadership Resources (our curated list).
- Triple Crown Leadership Facebook group.
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Reviews of Triple Crown Leadership
Here’s a selection of some of the reviews of Triple Crown Leadership and other publications related to the book:
- Bob Whipple reviews Triple Crown Leadership and calls it the “best leadership book since Good to Great“
- “To Lead Others, Learn to Lead Yourself First,” Fast Company
- “Is the Maverick at Your Company a Genius or a Jerk?” Fast Company
- “In Search of ‘Triple Crown Leadership,’” CNBC Bullish on Books
- “How Alignment Can Make Your Organization Flow,” ThoughtLeaders
- “Triple Crown Leadership: Building Excellent, Ethical, and Enduring Organizations,” American Management Association
- “6 Crucial Keys Every Startup Has to Find a Fit For,” Fast Company
- “Triple Crown Leadership: Building Excellent, Ethical, and Enduring Organizations,” Sources of Insight
- “The New Leadership Manifesto,” Core ore Sector Communique (India)
Quotations from Triple Crown Leadership
“The case is building for a new brand of leadership.”
-Bob and Gregg Vanourek, Triple Crown Leadership
“Ethical leadership is tested most under duress.”
-Bob and Gregg Vanourek, Triple Crown Leadership
“Do not compromise on the ethical imperative…. Leaders have to draw the line.”
-Bob and Gregg Vanourek, Triple Crown Leadership
“We are all flawed. Since we all make mistakes, we are wise to solicit help and input from others as sounding boards and accountability agents. Heated debates occur among reasonable people who can disagree on what is ethical.
Such debates can be healthy and help maintain the ethical imperative.”
-Bob and Gregg Vanourek, Triple Crown Leadership
“Ethical fortitude relies heavily on courage to face adversity and social pressure.”
-Bob and Gregg Vanourek, Triple Crown Leadership
“Organizations must also create systems and processes for instilling ethics into the enterprise, covering all aspects of the operation, from recruiting and rewarding people to reporting abuses and maintaining transparency.”
-Bob and Gregg Vanourek, Triple Crown Leadership
“The key to building a triple crown organization is not in the hands of a single ‘super-leader’ but rather in the hands, minds, and hearts of ordinary people who become extraordinary leaders and stewards of the culture of character.”
-Bob and Gregg Vanourek, Triple Crown Leadership
“A healthy constructive culture by no means guarantees success,
but it provides the foundation for building an excellent, ethical, and enduring organization.”
-Bob and Gregg Vanourek, Triple Crown Leadership
“Triple crown leadership employs a different approach (than delegation or traditional empowerment initiatives): proactive development of leaders automatically empowered by the organization’s colors and culture of character. With this approach, the shared values and vision guide the leaders. They operate in a more developed state of empowerment, in which the freedom to act is not granted by a higher authority but is instead expected in the culture and enabled by the colors. People in the organization, regardless of title, have an automatic license to act and lead, as long as they do so in accordance with the organization’s colors and culture of character. Armed with such triple crown empowerment—backed with resources, training, and support they need—they can achieve exceptional results.
They feel a visceral connection with the organization, wanting to give it their all.”
-Bob and Gregg Vanourek, Triple Crown Leadership
“Stewards model the desired behavior of the enterprise. They work on the business, not just in it. Stewards actively step outside their functional positions to influence to how others behave, and they reinforce the colors and culture. In so doing, they give the organization its soul.”
-Bob and Gregg Vanourek, Triple Crown Leadership
“Triple crown leaders watch for signs of integrity flaws in new recruits and colleagues, including excessive ambition, controlling behavior, hyper-competitiveness, bullying, narcissism, arrogance, or greed.”
-Bob and Gregg Vanourek, Triple Crown Leadership
“When organizations are struggling or in crisis… the temptation to cut corners can be immense.
Desperate people do desperate things.”
-Bob and Gregg Vanourek, Triple Crown Leadership
“Leadership is a group performance, not a solo act.”
-Bob and Gregg Vanourek, Triple Crown Leadership
Book Information
- Authors: Bob Vanourek and Gregg Vanourek (father and son)
- Genre: Nonfiction (leadership, leadership—case studies, nonprofit leadership, government leadership, business ethics, organizational culture, social responsibility of business)
- Publisher: McGraw Hill
- Publication Year: 2012
- Length: 302 pages
- ISBN: 978-0-07-179150-2
- ASIN: B00885S0N8
- List Price: $36.00
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