Transforming Leadership, Second Edition

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John D. Adams
Cosimo, Inc., Nov 1, 2005 - Business & Economics - 392 pages
Transforming Leadership is an outgrowth and extension of Transforming Work, acknowledging and exploring the crucial role of the organizational leadership in transformational change. This was the first practical guide for organizational leaders who wished to implement the concepts of "vision," "alignment," "work spirit," and "purpose" in their organizations. This Second Edition contains the original 20 chapters, plus the authors' reflections on their work at the turn of the century. John D. Adams, Ph.D. is a professor, speaker, author, consultant, and seminar leader. He has been at the forefront of the Organization Development and Transformation profession for over 35 years. His early articulation of issues facing organizations has provided a guiding light for the evolution of organization and change management consulting. Adams currently serves as the Chair of the Organizational Systems Ph.D. Program at the Saybrook Graduate School (San Francisco), and is a guest faculty member at The Bainbridge Island Graduate Institute in the MBA in Sustainability program. He also served as editor for two seminal works, Transforming Work and Transforming Leadership, both widely held as defining a new role for the Organization Development profession in a rapidly transforming world.
 

Contents

The Strategic Leadership Perspective
1
THE CHALLENGES OF LEADERSHIP
11
Leadership for Organizational Learning
38
Spiritual Leadership
67
Becoming a Metapreneur
92
Moving a Company
109
Two Contrasting Concepts
122
Leadership by Indirection
131
Leadership in Metanoic Organizations
217
Suggestions
236
The Invisible Side of Leadership
279
EVIDENCE OF TRANSFORMED LEADERSHIP
311
A Developed Alternative
325
The LongTerm View
336
Glossary
370
Contributing Authors
377

Leadership and the Art of Understanding Structure
145
Systems Principles for Leadership
157

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