
Layered Leadership
Drive Double-Digit Growth and Dominate Your Competition with Creative Strategies and Execution
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From one of the world’s most successful global leaders in architecture and design, discover a holistic, humanist approach to leadership centering on an unwavering commitment to developing well-rounded leaders within any organization.
Lawrence Armstrong’s vision for competitive excellence is animated by investing in and caring about the development of the whole person and their surrounding community. Under his creative, layer-based approach, Ware Malcomb has become a global leader in the industrial building sector—one of the world’s most successful and admired businesses of its kind.
Now, in Layered Leadership, Lawrence distills the secrets and internal processes of Ware Malcomb’s “whole brain leadership” culture and its fearless Strategic Growth strategy, teaching companies of all kinds how to:
- Synthesize influences, metaphors, and life lessons into a style of leadership
- Build a mentoring culture that coaches and supports rising leaders
- Protect executive time for creative work
- Drive consistent growth through up and down economic cycles
- Find your formula for greatness and deploy it to attract, keep, and expand business
- Implement succession strategies that stick
When people can bring their whole selves to work, cultivate their diverse capabilities, and identify their best career opportunities, they’re on the path to becoming great leaders—and building a surrounding culture of success. Layered Leadership is an evidence-based guide to raising leaders who will prove instrumental to all kinds of companies’ success.
©2025 by Layered Vision, LLC used with permission of BenBella Books, Inc. (P)2025 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.Critic reviews
“A master class in growth. Growing annual revenues? Yes. Growing one’s skill set from managing a paper route to owning and leading a company with $100 million a year in revenues and offices across the world? Yes . . . On each and every page of his valuable book, Armstrong layers authenticity on top of humility, ability, and success to build an imminently useful how-to manual for work and life.”—Todd Diacon, President, Kent State University
“Layered Leadership captures the key to building successful organizations by developing well-rounded leaders. This book shares valuable strategies for encouraging creativity and driving steady growth, no matter the economic climate . . . offering a fresh perspective on leadership that’s both practical and inspirational.”—Ted Antenucci, President and CEO, Catellus Development Corporation
“Larry’s insight into how you bring your whole self into any endeavor is inspiring. In Layered Leadership, we all now have the opportunity to learn how to infuse creativity, discipline, humanity, and passion into everything we do . . . including addressing complex societal issues such as homelessness.”—Susan B. Parks, President and CEO, OC United Way
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