The authentic leader : using the Meisner technique for embracing the values of truthful leadership / Royce Sparks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sparks, Royce, author.

Series:

A Productivity Press book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Meisner, Sanford.

Leadership--Study and teaching.

Leadership.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 285 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge/Productivity Press, 2021.

Summary:

"Using clear and simple exercises adapted for leadership development from the world-renowned Meisner Technique, The Authentic Leader will help you discover first-hand what it means to build your authentic leadership skills in a clear, technical way. Whether you are green in your career or at the head of a nation, an aspiring leader or an educator looking to use this material, this work develops and nourishes powerful leadership in unconventional, effective and dynamic ways"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Acknowledgements

Part I The Heart Of Leadership

1 Distilling the Wandering Mind

The Wisdom of Illness

The Placebo Effect (of ) in Leadership Coaching

An Unexpected Lesson

The Unknown Path: The Values Not Often Shared

This Book and Our Journey Together

2 The Three Pillars of Leadership: Vision, Power, and Technique

Who Needs Leadership Skills?

Via Negativa

All Leaders Are Aspiring Leaders

A Little of Nothing

What Actors Teach Us about Leadership

The Perils of World View

A Challenging Balance

The Morals of Power and the Power of Morals

Power Applied: Divisions of Leadership

Natural Is NOT Necessarily Good, Good Is Not Necessarily Natural: the Dynamics of Interpersonal Power

That Which Moves

Identity and Institution: Power by Association

Forward Motion

Part II Living Truthfully

3 Investing: The Beginnings of Everything

A Complex Puzzle

The Law of Three People

The Power of Observation

Solving the Challenge

Exercise: Investing in the Reality of Doing

The Trouble With Counting Bricks

Rival Solutions

Summary

Tips for You and Your Coach

4 The River Between Two People

Creating Context

The Human Target

Exercise: You-You Repetition

Let Me Get That for You

5 The I in You

Beyond the Shallow Rim

Point of View

Exercise: You-I Repetition

Daring Pandora's Box

The Value of Dosed Chaos

False Positives in Training

How a Leader Learns Best

The Pivoting Moment

6 Catching the Floating Moment

Shoes over Soul Searching

Exercise: The Three Moment Exercise

The Moment in Isolation

A Hierarchy of Specificity

The Power of Stillness

A New Starting Point

Two Wild Cards.

Top of the Mountain (For Now)

The Wiring Under Like King Kong

7 Moment by Moment

Leadership Across and Within

Exercise: The Three Moment Exercise 2.0

To Err Is Divine

8 Chaos and (in) Leadership

A New Gallop

Exercise: Switch

The Unseen Shared Values

The Storm in the Details

Unpredictably Predictable

9 Into the Great Unknown

The Depths

Exercise: Auto-Switch

Sans Safety Rails

To Time We Leave It

Technical Clean-Up Duty

The Subtle Eye of Chaos

What Belief Does to Chaos

Meaningful Meaning

Exercise: Repetition

10 The Knock at the Door

A Primal Impulse

Exercise: The Knock at the Door

Homework: The Independent Activity

Part III The Given Circumstances

11 Impossibility by Design

New Horizons

The Meaningful Ingredient

Inner Fire

Exercise: Preparation

Exercise: Independent Activity

The Four Criteria

Alternate Possibilities

Safety in Danger

Strategies of Safety

The Unacceptable Offer

Where Dragons Wait

12 A Broken Back Shows the Way

Reality Reintroduced

When the Actor in You Speaks

Exercise: Breaking the Back of a Text

Flattened Aliveness

Words, Words, Words

13 Life Examined

New Eyes

Exercise: Text Analysis

Side by Side

Exercise: Testing the Analysis

The Microcosm

Exercise: Interpersonal Analysis

That Wide Unknown

14 New Ground: Additional Exercises for Living Truthfully within a Given Set of Circumstances

Fine-Tuning

Completing the Hierarchy.

Speeches and Presentations

The Activity

Partner Activity

Recorded Speeches

Tactile Aids

Structured Improvised Scenarios

Improv + Repetition

Preparation and Activities

Refining the Given Circumstances

Long-Form Scene Work

15 Afterword: The Essential Hunger

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-00-302262-6

1-000-09280-1

1-003-02262-6

1-000-09272-0

9781003022626

OCLC:

1145088619