Wissam Mattout

The Underdog Leader Wissam Mattout

Today's business is undergoing a stormy environment and only strong leaders will be able to drive their business successfully. After the different recessions and crisis, new leadership skills are required to create new profitable opportunities, ensure growth and enforce transformation. Change is constant and leaders should adapt to it. CEO's used to run with full control, they always wanted to know what was going on in each area of their organisation, and they always wanted to lead and give orders and directions for big and small activities and in all details possible. Well, that is not working anymore. Now a days, successful executives stopped running for cover when crisis are there; instead, they started surfing the waves of change and leading the opportunities of transformation. In 2008, Catherine, an entrepreneur who was struggling in maintaining her small business decided to explore new opportunities by going back to be employed. It wasn't an easy decision especially when accepting a small managerial position in an international company. Few years later, she has been nominated to lead the biggest unit in the company due to her successfully delivering and transforming each department she was managing. Her biggest challenge was people around her and how to convince them that she deserve the role, while they look at her as a junior person who was lucky to be there. Catherine was so ambitious and she believed in herself knowing that by improving her leadership skills she will be able to overcome all the challenges. Catherine is the Underdog Leader who was able to build her career and establish required success by developing her leadership skills. In this book, the author, Wissam Mattout, illustrates the main skills Catherine worked on during her career to ensure she is ready to resolve all challenges and enjoy opportunities while growing her business. Along the way, you will learn how to1-Influence Conversation and improve communication skills2-Find and live is your Purpose3-Build and Lead Your Tribe4-Accept Rejections and Abundance5-Think in new boxes