1% Leadership: Master the Small, Daily Improvements that Set Great Leaders Apart

By Andy Ellis

‘Andy’s lessons on leadership and decision-making have applicability for leaders and organizations around the world’

– Dr. Gary Klein, cognitive psychologist and author of Seeing What Others Don’t

A set of proven, concrete strategies from a Hall of Fame leader that anyone can use to become a better leader every day

In May 2021, Andy Ellis was inducted into the CSO Hall of Fame. In his 20-year tenure at Akamai, a leading US internet technology company, Andy transformed its information security operation from a single individual to a team of over 90 people (more than 40 per cent women), while designing and bringing to market many of the security products that helped build Akamai’s billion-dollar dedicated cybersecurity business. He now advises several start-ups, lectures in executive education programmes and delivers keynote addresses around the world.

Yet none of these accomplishments were the result of rote application of a management system or following an acronymic framework letter by letter or genuflecting at the altars of previous leadership titans. And perhaps most important, Andy’s leadership skills did not kick in magically once he reached the C suite; his path to a Hall of Fame leadership track record started with the smallest of real-world lessons from his very first job onward.

1% Leadership recreates that path – building from personal, to team, to organizational leadership – for readers at any stage in their career, offering concise, practical lessons that help you improve, even if just by one per cent. This is the engine at the core of 1% Leadership: you become a great leader simply by becoming a better leader, every day.