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The Transforming Leader
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The Transforming Leader

by Carol S. Pearson
June 2012
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
264 pages
7h 28m
English
Berrett-Koehler Publishers
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5Dancing on a Slippery FloorTransforming Systems, Transforming Leadership

Kathleen Allen

Diana Whitney and Amanda Trosten-Bloom introduced us to the psychological shift in progress from focusing on problems to discovering and reinforcing the capacities people and organizations possess, so that we can have the confidence to implement desired future visions. In this essay, new ways of thinking, pioneered in the physical and biological sciences, illustrate how we as contemporary leaders can reframe our responses to twenty-first-century challenges. Building on the work of Margaret Wheat-ley (1992) and others, Kathleen Allen summarizes major themes in the advances from Newtonian to quantum physics and from an industrial to a biological paradigm. She ...

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ISBN: 9781609941208