Book description
A veritable who's who in leadership, Conversations on Leadership features Warren Bennis, Jim Kouzes, John Kotter, Noel Tichy, Peter Senge, James March, Howard Gardner, Bill George, and others. Since each leader has a distinctive approach, this book provides the multi-faceted truths of leadership to broaden and deepen the understanding of the readers.
Table of contents
- Praise
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
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PART I - Essential Leadership Qualities
- CHAPTER 1 - Jim Kouzes: Leadership is Everybody’s Business
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CHAPTER 2 - Warren Bennis: Generous Leadership
- A Generalist with a Leadership Brand
- An Old Dog with New Tricks
- The New Crucible and an Old Epiphany
- Five Leadership Qualities
- Generous Leaders
- Schultz: Showing Respect
- Sculley: Adaptive Capacity in Action
- An Example of Learning
- Leaders vs. Followers
- Drucker or Bennis: Who Said It?
- Why “Leading”?
- Endnotes
- CHAPTER 3 - Bill George: Authentic Leadership
- PART II - Leadership in Organizations
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PART III - Leading Through Storytelling
- CHAPTER 7 - Howard Gardner: Leaders as Storytellers
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CHAPTER 8 - John Kotter: Stories as a Force for Change
- A Different Vehicle for Change
- An Important Tool for Change
- How Managers Use Stories
- Telling a Good Story
- Three Kinds of Leadership Story
- Different Personalities in a Change Process
- Maintaining a Sense of Urgency
- Combining Leadership and Management
- Aspects of Leadership Development
- Kotter’s Leadership
- Endnotes
- PART IV - Complexities in Leadership
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PART V - Eastern Perspectives on Leadership
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CHAPTER 12 - Cho-yun Hsu: Leading the Confucian Way
- Leadership through an Historical Lens
- Leaders should have a Sense of History
- Obama’s Sense of History
- Mao Tse-Tung’s Sense of History
- Tactics vs. Vision
- The Call for Intellectual Leadership
- Chinese Books for Leaders
- Developing Leaders in the Confucian Way
- Leaders Need Truth from a Friend or a Jester
- The Accidental Teacher to Business Executives
- Government and Corporation Compared
- The Corporation as Tribe
- Leadership in the New Heterarchy
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CHAPTER 13 - Debashis Chatterjee: Leading Consciously
- Leadership Wisdom in the Indian Tradition
- Inclusive and Vertical: The Indian Orientation toward Capitalism
- The Inner Side of Leadership
- Leadership is a State of Consciousness
- Conscious Leaders in the World
- Applying Consciousness in Business
- The Caste System and Conscious Leadership
- Leaders Work on the System and Create History
- Indians Look for Spiritual Strength in Their Leaders
- Leadership Lessons from the Bhagavad Gita
- The Indian Leadership Style
- Endnote
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CHAPTER 12 - Cho-yun Hsu: Leading the Confucian Way
- AFTERWORD
- Index
Product information
- Title: Conversations on Leadership: Wisdom from Global Management Gurus
- Author(s):
- Release date: August 2010
- Publisher(s): Jossey-Bass
- ISBN: 9780470825693
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