Few business parables are well written. Fewer still explain solid leadership principles. Greater Than Yourself: The Ultimate Lesson of True Leadership does both. Steve Farber, author of The Radical Leap and The Radical Edge, returns with a new fable. In Greater Than Yourself, Farber explores what it takes to build and develop the people underneath you (your GTY projects). Greater Than Yourself is the golden rule on steroids.

Greater Than Yourself is built on three solid principles:

• Expand Yourself – creating a deep understanding of who you are and what you stand for in order to pass along those strong qualities to others.
• Give Yourself – giving yourself to others and making a meaningful impact in the lives of many.
• Replicate Yourself – encouraging others to “pay it forward” by challenging them to give of themselves.

Greater Than Yourself explains this within an interesting and intriguing story. But what does that have to do with leadership theory?

Lots.

Transformational leadership theory defines how leadership creates valuable and positive change in followers, with the end result of followers developing into leaders. Transformational leadership theories further explain the dynamics and factors of transformational leadership. Greater Than Yourself simplifies it. Farber’s parable is the “how-to” of transformational leadership. By following the three steps of GTY, you inevitably become a transformational leader, and develop followers destined to be transformational leaders.