Williams shows how real leaders help people shift their values, habits, practices and priorities to accommodate changing conditions and new demands.
Dean Williams,
Real Leadership - Helping People and Organizations Face Their Toughest Challenges, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2005.
Book description:
Much of what passes today for "good leadership" only appears effective because people are blindly following their leaders. But when organizations face tough challenges, leaders often offers false solutions and sidestep harsh realities, distracting people from the real work of progress. "Real Leadership" mobilizes people to face reality and address the organization or community's most pressing challenge - the primary threat or opportunity that must be confronted for success to unfold. Williams shows how real leaders help people shift their values, habits, practices and priorities to accommodate changing conditions and new demands.
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Table of Contents
| Part I: Real Leadership: The Engine of Progress | 1 |
| 1 | Odin, Enron, and the Apes: The Challenge of Real Leadership | 3 |
| 2 | Diagnostic Work: Determining the Principal Challenge | 31 |
| | Part II: The Six Challenges of Real Leadership | 57 |
| 3 | The Activist Challenge: Calling Attention to a Contradiction in Values | 59 |
| 4 | The Development Challenge: Building Latent Capabilities Needed to Progress | 89 |
| 5 | The Transition Challenge: Moving from One System of Values to Another | 115 |
| 6 | The Creative Challenge: Doing Whatصs Never Been Done Before | 141 |
| 7 | The Maintenance Challenge: Sustaining What Is Essential | 163 |
| 8 | The Crisis Challenge: Leading in Perilous times | 189 |
| | Part III: Real Leadership in Action | 215 |
| 9 | Leading in Multiple Challenges: The Case of T.E. Lawrence | 217 |
| 10 | Moving Forward: Taking Responsibility for Yourself as an Instrument of Power | 243 |
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