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Index
Cover
Contents
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Foreword
Introduction and Acknowledgments
Organization of This Book
Acknowledgments
About the Editor
Part One: Framing the Issues: What Is Leadership?
Editor’s Interlude
Chapter One: What Leaders Really Do
The Difference Between Management and Leadership
Creating a Culture of Leadership
Chapter Two: Primal Leadership: The Hidden Power of Emotional Intelligence
The Primal Dimension
The Open Loop
Contagion and Leadership
How Moods Impact Results
Emotional Hijacking
Good Moods, Good Work
Quantifying the “Feel” of a Company
Notes
Chapter Three: The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership
Leadership Is a Relationship
The Ten Commitments of Leadership
Notes
Chapter Four: Reframing Leadership
Reframing Leadership
Summary
References
Chapter Five: When Leadership Is an Organizational Trait
Using Leadership Data as an Objective Focus for Change
Building Organizational Coherence and Agility
A Distinction with Consequences
The Role of Enabling Systems
Different in Countless Ways
High LQ: the Moral Equivalent of Individual Leadership
Lessons for the Next Generation of Leaders
Part Two: Becoming a Leader, Preparing for the Opportunities
Editor’s Interlude
Chapter Six: The Seven Ages of the Leader
The Infant Executive
The Schoolboy, with Shining Face
The Lover, with a Woeful Ballad
The Bearded Soldier
The General, Full of Wise Saws
The Statesman, with Spectacles on Nose
The Sage, Second Childishness
Chapter Seven: The Traces of Talent
Chapter Eight: Leadership Is Authenticity, Not Style
The Authentic Leader
Being Your Own Person
Developing Your Unique Leadership Style
Being Aware of Your Weaknesses
The Temptations of Leadership
Dimensions of Authentic Leaders
Chapter Nine: Thinking Gray and Free
Chapter Ten: Enhancing the Psycho-Spiritual Development of Leaders: Lessons from Leadership Journeys in Asia
Leadership Journeys
Psycho-Spiritual Dimensions of Leadership Development
Reflections on the Journeys
Lessons on Leadership Journeys
Cultivating a Leadership Philosophy
References
Chapter Eleven: Moments of Greatness: Entering the Fundamental State of Leadership
Defining the Fundamental State
Preparing for the Fundamental State
Asking Four Transformative Questions
Applying the Fundamental Principles
Inspiring Others to High Performance
Part Three: Understanding the Territory, Anticipating the Challenges
Editor’s Interlude
Chapter Twelve: Making Sense of Organizations: Leadership, Frames, and Everyday Theories of the Situation
Sense Making and Everyday Theory Building
Sorting Complexity: Leveraging the Pluralism in Organizational Theory
A Four-Dimensional Diagnostic Model: Issues, Choice Points, and Areas of Focus
Central Frame Tensions
Reframing: Using and Teaching Reflection and Cognitive Elasticity
Being a Generalist and a Specialist
References
Chapter Thirteen: Leadership and the Power of Position: Understanding Structural Dynamics in Everyday Organizational Life
On Automatic Pilot: Seeing Systems as They Are
The Vision: Robust Human Systems
Moving from Reflexive to Robust
Notes
Chapter Fourteen: The Boundaryless Organization: Rising to the Challenges of Global Leadership
Boundaryless Behavior: The Art of the Fluid
A Changing Paradigm for Organizational Success
Out with the Old—In with the New
The Giant and the Upstart
Four Boundaries
Permeability in Action
Get Ready for Resistance
Making It Happen
Notes
Chapter Fifteen: Knowledge Management Involves Neither Knowledge nor Management
Why Knowledge Management Doesn’t Work
How Knowledge Management Can Work
Notes
Chapter Sixteen: The Sustainability Sweet Spot: Where Profit Meets the Common Good
A Map to the Sweet Spot
“Prove It!”
Three Ways Sustainability Enhances Your Business
Additional Business Benefits of Sustainability
Hard Cases
Final Thoughts
Notes
Chapter Seventeen: Leading Geeks: Technology and Leadership
Understanding Geeks
Why Geek Leadership Is Different
What Is Geek Leadership?
Summary: Key Ideas
Chapter Eighteen: Leading in Black and White: Working Effectively Across the Racial Divide
The Assumption of Similarity
The Effect of Miasma
Adding It All Up
What Colleagues Need to Know
Self-Development
Education
Behavior
Chapter Nineteen: Managing Middlescence
The Problems
Six Strategies for Revitalizing Careers
Rekindle Now
Part Four: Making It Happen
Editor’s Interlude
Chapter Twenty: The First Ninety Days of Leadership
Fundamental Propositions
Success Strategies for New Leaders
Notes
Chapter Twenty-One: What Is Our Mission?
It Should Fit on a T-Shirt
Why Does the Organization Exist?
Make Principled Decisions
Chapter Twenty-Two: The Power and Creativity of a Transforming Vision
The Transforming Vision
Notes
Chapter Twenty-Three: Finding the Right Vision
Properties of a Good Vision
What Vision Is Not
Where Vision Comes From
Getting Started
References
Chapter Twenty-Four: Developing Strategy: The Serious Business of Play
Linking Play, Leadership Development, and Strategizing
Comparing Serious Playing and Traditional Strategizing
Benefits of Playing with Serious Intent
How to Play Seriously and the Role of Leadership in Play
References
Chapter Twenty-Five: The Leader as Politician: Navigating the Political Terrain
Agenda Setting
Mapping the Political Terrain
Networking and Building Coalitions
Bargaining and Negotiation
Morality and Politics
Summary
References
Chapter Twenty-Six: Want Collaboration? Accept—and Actively Manage—Conflict
Strategies for Managing Disagreements at the Point of Conflict
Strategies for Managing Conflict upon Escalation
Tapping the Learning Latent in Conflict
Chapter Twenty-Seven: Creating and Managing a Learning Culture: The Essence of Leadership
What Might a Learning Culture Look Like
The Evolving Role of a Learning Leader
Becoming a Learning Leader
References
Chapter Twenty-Eight: Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail
Error #1: Not Establishing a Great Enough Sense of Urgency
Error #2: Not Creating a Powerful Enough Guiding Coalition
Error #3: Lacking a Vision
Error #4: Undercommunicating the Vision by a Factor of Ten
Error #5: Not Removing Obstacles to the New Vision
Error #6: Not Systematically Planning For and Creating Short-Term Wins
Error #7: Declaring Victory Too Soon
Error #8: Not Anchoring Changes in the Corporation’s Culture
Chapter Twenty-Nine: Leading at the Enterprise Level
The Enterprise Leader’s Job
An Unnatural Act
Overcoming the Obstacles
Bridging the Strategy-Capabilities Gap
Chapter Thirty: The Leader as Toxin Handler: Organizational Hero and Casualty
What Toxin Handlers Do
Filling a Need
The Toll of Toxin Handling
Handling Toxin Handlers
Making Toxin Handlers Obsolete
In Good Company
Chapter Thirty-One: Bad Leadership—and Ways to Avoid It
Incompetent
Rigid
Intemperate
Callous
Corrupt
Insular
Evil
The Heart of Darkness: Seeing It, Avoiding It
Leaders: Self-Help
Followers: Working with Others
Notes
Chapter Thirty-Two: Good or Not Bad: Standards and Ethics in Managing Change
Managing Change Requires Fixed Points
Ethics as an Insufficient Fixed Point
Virtuousness as a Supplemental Fixed Point
References
Part Five: Sustaining the Leader
Editor’s Interlude
Chapter Thirty-Three: A Survival Guide for Leaders
A Hostile Environment
The Dangers Within
Why Lead?
Chapter Thirty-Four: Preserving Integrity, Profitability, and Soul
Soul Searching
How Much Is Enough?
Finding Common Ground
Accounting for the Good
Closing Thoughts: From Success to Significance
Notes
Chapter Thirty-Five: Learning for Leadership: Failure as a Second Chance
Ways to Create a New Identity
Example of Adversity as a Spur to Learning
The Value of Failure
Chapter Thirty-Six: Nourishing the Soul of the Leader: Inner Growth Matters
Spiritually Inspired Leadership: The Good Company
In Closing: A Caveat About Tensions Between Religion and Spirituality
Notes
Chapter Thirty-Seven: Choose Hope: On Creating a Hopeful Future
Credits
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