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Book Title: Layered Leadership
Author:Lawrence Armstrong
Published:2025
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Larry Armstrong didn’t just want to build a great company within his industry; he wanted to build a great company, period. And under Larry’s creative, layer-based leadership 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.
Central to this success is a firm commitment to developing and training well-rounded leaders. Larry’s vision for competitive excellence is animated by investing in and caring about the development of the whole person and their surrounding community. Now, in Layered Leadership, Larry distills the secrets and internal processes of Ware Malcomb’s “whole brain leadership” culture and its fearless Strategic Growth strategy.

