Focuses on inspirational, holistic, and values-driven leadership.
More Reviews and RecommendationsLeadership in a New Era: Visionary Approaches to the Biggest Crisis of Our Time is an outstanding collection of vision and wisdom for tomorrow's business leaders, presented by an incredible group of men and women in a joint collaboration. This rare combination of business executives, professional consultants, successful authors, and leadership scholars has come together with a common theme - new times call for new leadership. Editor John Renesch defines this as a "change in context" which he describes in the book's Introduction. This book was created for the individual who recognizes that he or she could be doing more to improve or even transform their own role in their organizations or their organization's role in the world. Whether the reader is a middle manager, a CEO, a sales rep, or an accountant, he or she will find incredible value from the treasure chest of ideas shared by these authors.
| Preface | ||
| Acknowledgements | ||
| Introduction: A Commitment to a Change in Context | 1 | |
| 1 | Random Observations After Twenty-eight Years of Managing | 11 |
| 2 | Leadership of Motivation: The Ethics and Practicality of Incentives | 27 |
| 3 | Cinderella Can be Tough, John Wayne Can Cry | 39 |
| 4 | Diversity and Leadership Development | 53 |
| 5 | An Adventure in Enlightened Leadership | 71 |
| 6 | Leadership Challenges in Technical Organizations | 79 |
| 7 | Executive Team Leadership | 91 |
| 8 | Leading Change: The Leader as the Chief Transformation Officer | 103 |
| 9 | Natural Leadership | 113 |
| 10 | A Sacred Responsibility | 125 |
| 11 | Leading From Within: Taking a Leap of Faith | 137 |
| 12 | Servant-Leadership: Toward a New Era of Caring | 153 |
| 13 | The Innocent Leader: Accepting Paradox | 169 |
| 14 | Both/And Thinking: Leading Change in a World of Paradox | 181 |
| 15 | The Koan of Leadership | 195 |
| 16 | Leadership and the New Science | 211 |
| 17 | Catching the Wave: Changing Minds in a Changing World | 223 |
| 18 | For Radical Change: The Buck Stops Here | 237 |
| 19 | Leadership: The Values Game | 251 |
| 20 | Attributes of Leadership: A Checklist | 263 |
| 21 | Winning Trust | 269 |
| 22 | A Conversation with Norman Lear | 279 |
| Recommended Reading & Resources | 291 | |
| Index | 301 | |
| How to Contact Authors | 312 |
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