Business Leadership: A Jossey-Bass Reader / Edition 2

by Joan V. Gallos

Overview

The second edition of best-selling Business Leadership contains the best thinking on leadership from the biggest names in the business. It offers leaders everything they need to know to prepare for today's-and tomorrow's-. leadership challenges: how to understand the leadership process, identify opportunities, get things started right, avoid predictable pitfalls, and maximize success. Effective leaders use mind, heart, and spirit in their work, and this volume is designed to guide and support leaders in their efforts. With an introduction by Joan V. Gallos-editor of the highly praised Organization Development: A Jossey-Bass Reader-the author list for this invaluable resource reads like the who's who of business leadership.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	2900787988196
Publication date:	01/18/2008
Pages:	624
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

The Editor

Joan V. Gallos is professor of leadership at the Henry W. Bloch School of Business and Public Administration at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.

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Table of Contents

Foreword   Ronald A. Heifetz     xi
Introduction and Acknowledgments   Joan V. Gallos     xvii
About the Editor     xxv
Framing the Issues: What Is Leadership?     1
Editor's Interlude
What Leaders Really Do   John P. Kotter     5
Primal Leadership: The Hidden Power of Emotional Intelligence   Daniel Goleman   Richard Boyatzis   Annie McKee     16
The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership   James M. Kouzes   Barry Z. Posner     26
Reframing Leadership   Lee G. Bolman   Terrence E. Deal     35
When Leadership Is an Organizational Trait   James O'Toole     50
Becoming a Leader, Preparing for the Opportunities     61
Editor's Interlude
The Seven Ages of the Leader   Warren G. Bennis     65
The Traces of Talent   Marcus Buckingham   Donald O. Clifton     79
Leadership Is Authenticity, Not Style   Bill George     87
Level 5 Leadership: The Triumph of Humility and Fierce Resolve   Jim Collins     99
Thinking Gray and Free   Steven B. Sample     115
Enhancing the Psycho-Spiritual Development of Leaders: Lessons from LeadershipJourneys in Asia   Philip H. Mirvis   Karen Ayas     125
Moments of Greatness: Entering the Fundamental State of Leadership   Robert E. Quinn     142
Understanding the Territory, Anticipating the Challenges     155
Editor's Interlude
Mapping the Terrain
Making Sense of Organizations: Leadership, Frames, and Everyday Theories of the Situation   Joan V. Gallos     161
Leadership and the Power of Position: Understanding Structural Dynamics in Everyday Organizational Life   Michael J. Sales     180
Understanding Unique Features of the Challenge
The Boundaryless Organization: Rising to the Challenges of Global Leadership   Ron Ashkenas   David Ulrich   Todd Jick   Steve Kerr     199
Knowledge Management Involves Neither Knowledge nor Management   Marc S. Effron     221
The Sustainability Sweet Spot: Where Profit Meets the Common Good   Andrew W. Savitz   Karl Weber     230
Leading Geeks: Technology and Leadership   Paul Glen     244
Leading in Black and White: Working Effectively Across the Racial Divide   Ancella B. Livers   Keith A. Caver     255
Managing Middlescence   Robert Morison   Tamara J. Erickson   Ken Dychtwald      271
Making It Happen     287
Editor's Interlude
Getting Things Started
The First Ninety Days of Leadership   Michael Watkins     293
What Is Our Mission?   Peter F. Drucker     301
The Power and Creativity of a Transforming Vision   James MacGregor Burns     305
Finding the Right Vision   Burt Nanus     311
Developing Strategy: The Serious Business of Play   Loizos Heracleous   Claus D. Jacobs     324
Staying on Track
The Leader as Politician: Navigating the Political Terrain   Lee G. Bolman   Terrence E. Deal     336
Want Collaboration? Accept-and Actively Manage-Conflict   Jeff Weiss   Jonathan Hughes     349
Creating and Managing a Learning Culture: The Essence of Leadership   Edgar H. Schein     362
Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail   John P. Kotter     370
Leading at the Enterprise Level   Douglas A. Ready     382
Execution: The Gap Nobody Knows   Larry Bossidy   Ram Charan   Charles Burck     393
Avoiding the Pitfalls
The Leader as Toxin Handler: Organizational Hero and Casualty   Peter J. Frost   Sandra Robinson     407
Bad Leadership-and Ways to Avoid It   Barbara Kellerman     423
Good or Not Bad: Standards and Ethics in Managing Change   Kim S. Cameron     433
Sustaining the Leader     443
Editor's Interlude
A Survival Guide for Leaders   Ronald A. Heifetz   Marty Linsky     447
Preserving Integrity, Profitability, and Soul   David Batstone     463
Learning for Leadership: Failure as a Second Chance   David L. Dotlich   James L. Noel   Norman Walker     478
Nourishing the Soul of the Leader: Inner Growth Matters   Andre L. Delbecq     486
Resilience and the Crucibles of Leadership   Warren G. Bennis   Robert J. Thomas     504
Choose Hope: On Creating a Hopeful Future   Andrew Razeghi     516
Notes and References     519
Name Index     549
Subject Index     557
Credits     595