Creating Leaderful Organizations

Preface

This book is designed to develop “leaderful practice,” a new paradigm of leadership for our organizations. Leaderful practice directly challenges the conventional view of leadership as “being out in front.” In the twenty-first-century organization, we need to establish communities where everyone shares the experience of serving as a leader, not sequentially, but concurrently and collectively. In other words, leaders co-exist at the same time and all together. In addition, we expect each member of a community to make a unique contribution to the growth of that community, both independently and interdependently with others. In this sense, our leaders are inherently collaborative, which in turn they derive from their compassion toward other ...