Book description
Leaders need to be forceful--to assert themselves and their capabilities and to push others to perform. Leaders also need to be enabling--to tap into and bring out the capabilities of others. The problem is that many executives see forceful leadership and enabling leadership as mutually exclusive, or strongly prefer one or the other, and therefore lack the versatility to be truly effective. This publication explains how executives can overcome the emotional barriers to expanding their skill sets in one direction or the other.
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Introduction
- The Tension between Forceful and Enabling
- Forceful Leadership and Enabling Leadership as Opposing Virtues
- Versatility
- Enabling Leadership as “Virtuous”
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Development Needs as Lack of Versatility
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When Virtues Become Vices
- Getting involved personally versus granting autonomy
- Declaring oneself versus hearing from other people
- Making tough calls versus being sensitive to people’s needs
- Making critical judgments versus showing appreciation
- Having a can-do attitude versus accepting limits
- Conveying confidence versus showing modesty, humility
- Lopsidedness or Restricted Movement
- Case of Overly Forceful, Not Enabling Enough
- Case of Overly Enabling, Not Forceful Enough
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When Virtues Become Vices
- What It Takes to Increase Versatility
- Conclusion
- Appendix
- Bibliography
Product information
- Title: Forceful Leadership and Enabling Leadership: You Can Do Both
- Author(s):
- Release date: May 1996
- Publisher(s): Center for Creative Leadership
- ISBN: 9781604916928
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