Book description
Leaders need to be forceful--to assert themselves and their capabilities and to push others to perform. Leaders also need to be enabling--to tap into and bring out the capabilities of others. The problem is that many executives see forceful leadership and enabling leadership as mutually exclusive, or strongly prefer one or the other, and therefore lack the versatility to be truly effective. This publication explains how executives can overcome the emotional barriers to expanding their skill sets in one direction or the other.Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Introduction
- The Tension between Forceful and Enabling
- Forceful Leadership and Enabling Leadership as Opposing Virtues
- Versatility
- Enabling Leadership as “Virtuous”
-
Development Needs as Lack of Versatility
-
When Virtues Become Vices
- Getting involved personally versus granting autonomy
- Declaring oneself versus hearing from other people
- Making tough calls versus being sensitive to people’s needs
- Making critical judgments versus showing appreciation
- Having a can-do attitude versus accepting limits
- Conveying confidence versus showing modesty, humility
- Lopsidedness or Restricted Movement
- Case of Overly Forceful, Not Enabling Enough
- Case of Overly Enabling, Not Forceful Enough
-
When Virtues Become Vices
- What It Takes to Increase Versatility
- Conclusion
- Appendix
- Bibliography
Product information
- Title: Forceful Leadership and Enabling Leadership: You Can Do Both
- Author(s):
- Release date: May 1996
- Publisher(s): Center for Creative Leadership
- ISBN: 9781604916928
You might also like
book
Your Creative Mind
Too many companies limit their strategic thinking by focusing on what they already know how to …
book
LinkedIn For Dummies, 5th Edition
Make LinkedIn your number one professional branding tool LinkedIn is the premiere social network for professionals …
book
Job Challenge Profile, Facilitator Guide
The Center for Creative Leadership has found that successful managers acquire many core skills from their …
book
ATD Talent Management Handbook
What you need to know to manage a workforce. The complex and ever-changing nature of today’s—and …