Reading the room : group dynamics for coaches and leaders / David Kantor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kantor, David.

Series:

The Jossey-Bass Business & Management Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communication in organizations.

Communication in management.

Small groups.

Leadership.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (443 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Group dynamics for coaches and leaders

Place of Publication:

San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, c2012.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Praise for Reading the Room ""If you believe, as I do, that tackling our toughest problems in organizations and societies will require significant advances in the human domain of how we think and interact, then you will find this book a wonderful resource for a healthier future.""-Peter Senge, senior lecturer, leadership and sustainability, MIT Sloan School of Management; and founding chair, Society for Organizational Learning (SoL) ""A must-read for anyone truly interested in gaining access to and managing their own actions/behavior as well as all those we work with, live with, and

Contents:

APPLE NAME: 4-PLAYER MODEL; Reading the Room; CONTENTS; PREFACE; chapter ONE: Reading the Room: Introduction and Framework; PART ONE: A Complete Language for Understanding Leader Behavior; chapter TWO: Level I: Action Stances: The Four-Player Model; chapter THREE: Level II: Domains of Communication: Affect, Power, and Meaning; chapter FOUR: Level III: Systems in Control of Speech; chapter FIVE: The Behavioral Profile: A Synthesis of Levels I, II, and III; PART TWO: Identity and Leader Behavior in High Stakes; chapter SIX: Level IV: Stories, Identity, and Structured Behavior

chapter SEVEN: Narrative Purposechapter EIGHT: Leader Behavior in High-Stakes Situations; chapter NINE: The Heroic Leader in Crisis; chapter TEN: Sources and Signs of Moral Corruption in Leaders; PART THREE: Models and the Ultimate Leader; chapter ELEVEN: From Personal Model to Leadership Model; chapter TWELVE: Building a Leadership Model; chapter THIRTEEN: A Model for Living; chapter FOURTEEN: Beyond the Behavioral Profile; chapter FIFTEEN: A Structural Dynamics Analysis of Barack Obama; AFTERWORD: WHERE STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS GOES FROM HERE; NOTES; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613652485

9781118235041

1118235045

9781280675553

1280675551

9781118221204

1118221206

OCLC:

779097308