Book excerpt: The Three-Dimensional Leader provides a scalable paradigm to rate and improve leadership, regardless of your type of organization or position you hold. It details how to achieve cohesive strategic planning, get synergy from diversity, improve your culture's core operational success dynamics, franchise values to avoid silos, and propel innovation through the five factors of out-of-the-box thinking! The Three-Dimensional Leader interviews others who model principles and provides insight to improve your focus and channel what is perceived into process steps that achieve long-term performance. Three-dimensional leaders leave legacies of success while vying with organizational vampires and swashbuckling pirates who try to commandeer and undermine the 'missions that matter most.' This book is an entertaining and revealing must-read!