Book description
Is your leadership a competitive advantage, or is it costing you? How do you know? Are you developing your leadership effectiveness at the pace of change?
For most leaders today, complexity is outpacing their personal and collective development. Most leaders are in over their heads, whether they know it or not. The most successful organizations over time are the best led. While this has always been true, today escalating global complexity puts leadership effectiveness at a premium. Mastering Leadership involves developing the effectiveness of leaders—individually and collectively—and turning that leadership into a competitive advantage. This comprehensive roadmap for optimal leadership features:
- Breakthrough research that connects increased leadership effectiveness with enhanced business performance
- The first fully integrated Universal Model of Leadership—one that integrates the best theory and research in the fields of Leadership and Organizational Development over the last half century
- A free, online self-assessment of your leadership, using the Leadership Circle Profile, visibly outlining how you are currently leading and how to develop even greater effectiveness
- The five stages in the evolution of leadership—Egocentric, Reactive, Creative, Integral, and Unitive—along with the organizational structures and cultures that develop at each of these stages
- Six leadership practices for evolving your leadership capability at a faster pace
- A map of your optimal path to greater leadership effectiveness
- Case stories that facilitate pragmatic application of this Leadership Development System to your particular situation
This timeless, authoritative text provides a systemic approach for developing your senior leaders and the leadership system of your organization. It does not recommend quick fixes, but argues that real development requires a strategic, long-term, and integrated approach in order to forge more effective leaders and enhanced business performance. Mastering Leadership offers a developmental pathway to bring forth the highest and best use of yourself, your life, and your leadership. By more meaningfully deploying all of who you are every day, individually and collectively, you will achieve a leadership legacy consistent with your highest aspirations.
Table of contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction A Universal Model of Leadership and the Leadership Circle Profile Assessment
- Chapter 1 The Promise of Leadership: Meeting the High Bar of Expectations
- Chapter 2 Leadership Effectiveness and Business Performance: The Primary Competitive Advantage
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Chapter 3 Mastery and Maturity, Consciousness and Complexity: The Leadership Development Agenda
- TRIUMPH AND FAILURE OF THE INNER GAME
- COMPETENCY IS ONLY HALF THE GAME
- TWO GAMES OF LEADERSHIP
- INNER GAME RUNS THE OUTER GAME
- LITANY OF THE LITERATURE
- FOUR FOUNDATIONAL PREMISES
- CONSCIOUSNESS AND COMPLEXITY
- UNDERSTANDING COMPLEXITY: REDUNDANT POLARITIES AND PROBLEMS
- NON-OBVIOUS POINTS OF LEVERAGE
- THE LEADERSHIP IMPERATIVE
- THE CORE ARGUMENT
- UNCOMMON SENSE
- COLLECTIVE WISDOM
- A GLOBAL LEADERSHIP IMPERATIVE
- NOTES
- Chapter 4 Stages of Development: The Backbone of the Universal Model of Leadership
- Chapter 5 Five Levels of Leadership: Structures of Mind and Performance
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Chapter 6 The Universal Model and Metrics: Global Leadership, Cross-Cultural, and Gender Application
- TASK AND RELATIONSHIP—HORIZONTAL AXIS
- A DYNAMIC MODEL
- OPTIMAL LEADERSHIP
- LINK TO PERFORMANCE AND EFFECTIVENESS
- DYNAMIC POLARITIES
- UNIVERSALITY OF THE MODEL
- CASE IN POINT: CROSS-CULTURAL APPLICATION IN RURAL UGANDA
- GENDER AND THE UNIVERSAL MODEL
- STAGE OF DEVELOPMENT RESEARCH
- CONCLUSIONS AND IMPLICATIONS
- Chapter 7 The Leadership System: The Central Organizing System
- Chapter 8 Reactive Leadership: An Insufficient Triumph of Development
- Chapter 9 Reactive Leadership at Work: From Patriarchy to Partnership
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Chapter 10 Creative Leadership: Fulfilling the Promise of Leadership
- PERFORMANCE REVIEW
- THE HERO'S JOURNEY
- WHAT THE TRANSITION LOOKS LIKE
- TALKING ABOUT IT WITHOUT KNOWING IT
- CREATIVE STRUCTURE
- CREATIVE STRUCTURE OF IDENTITY
- RESTRUCTURING IDENTITY BELIEFS
- DESIGNED FOR LEADING CHANGE
- CREATIVE MIND AND PERFORMANCE
- ALIGNMENT
- PATH OF DEVELOPMENT—MOVE TOWARD YOUR NEAR ENEMY
- TYPE THROUGH STAGE
- CREATIVE ORGANIZATIONS
- INTEGRATION
- LITERACY IN THE PATHWAYS OF TRANSFORMATION
- TWO CURRENTS OF TRANSFORMATION
- Chapter 11 Six Leadership Practices: Spiritual Boot Camp for Leaders
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Chapter 12 Integral Leadership: Built for Complexity, Designed for Transformation
- BRIEF SUMMARY OF STAGES
- SERVANT OF THE SYSTEM
- MATURING INTUITION
- SEEING THE ENTIRE DEVELOPMENT SPECTRUM
- HOLDING UNRESOLVEDNESS, CONFLICT, AND TENSION
- AS WITHIN, SO WITHOUT
- A MEETING OF TWIN OPPOSITES
- HAVE YOU EVER ONCE ASKED ME WHAT I WANT?
- SHADOW SIDE OF THE UNIVERSAL MODEL
- FIERCE COMPASSION, THE DANCE OF ENEMIES
- WHY IS CHANGE SO DIFFICULT?
- INTEGRAL LEADERSHIP IMPERATIVE
- NOTES
- Chapter 13 Unity: Journey's End, Development Turned Upside Down
- Appendix 1 Leadership Circle Profile Dimensions
- Appendix 2 Theorists Integrated into The Leadership Circle Universal Model of Leadership
- References
- About the Authors
- Index
- EULA
Product information
- Title: Mastering Leadership
- Author(s):
- Release date: November 2015
- Publisher(s): Wiley
- ISBN: 9781119147190
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