Humble Leadership

Preface

What This Book Is About

Do you find yourself mired in an individualistic competitive culture of management in which leadership is always about a “superstar” doing something extraordinary and heroic? Would it help to think of leadership not as the “seven steps” you must take to lead, but as the energy that is shared in a group that is accomplishing something new and better? This book proposes a relational view of leadership as a process of learning, sharing, and directing new and better things to do in the dynamic interpersonal and group processes that increasingly characterize today’s organizations. Such leadership processes can occur at any level, in any team or workgroup, in any meeting, in tight or open networks, in co-located or widely ...