The spirit of leadership : liberating the leader in each of us / Harrison Owen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Owen, Harrison, 1935-

Contributor:

Owen, Harrison, 1935-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Leadership.

Medical Subjects:

Leadership.

Physical Description:

vii, 156 pages ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

San Francisco, Calif. : Berrett-Koehler, [1999]

Summary:

"The business world is desperate for leaders. Companies everywhere search in vain for that one person who can make sense of their rapidly changing environment through assertiveness, charisma, and control. But renowned consultant Harrison Owen reveals that our inability to locate such a person is the result of misguided expectations. The solutions we seek, he says, don't lie with such old-style leaders. Today's world requires inspired leadership from all levels of the organization." "Here Owen calls for a new kind of leader, one who flows with rather than fights against change. In doing so, he presents the radical notion that spirit is the most important ingredient of any organization and that leadership means opening space for that spirit to show up in powerful and productive ways. The spirit of Leadership provides practical steps you can use today to uncover your own capacity for leadership in whatever position you are in, and to exercise that capacity both to enhance the performance of your organization and to find personal fulfillment. Book jacket."--Jacket

Contents:

Where have all the leaders gone?

Transformation : the context of leadership

A whole new ball game : leadership and the informal organization

Leadership lessons from the disenfranchised : women

Life in the underground : the basics of leadership

Spirit and leadership

The first function of leadership : evoking spirit with vision

The second function of leadership : growing spirit through collective storytelling

The third function of leadership : sustaining spirit with structure

The fourth function of leadership : comforting spirit when things fall apart

The fifth function of leadership : raising spirit

The spirit of leadership : the leader's spirit.

Notes:

Revised edition of: Leadership is. 1990.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-146) and index.

Related Work:

Owen, Harrison, 1935- Leadership is.

Other Format:

Print version: Owen, Harrison, 1935- Spirit of leadership.

ISBN:

1576750566

9781576750568

OCLC:

40602903

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