Real Leadership: Helping People and Organizations Face Their Toughest Challenges (16pt Large Print Edition)

Business & Money

Williams, Dean

Management & Leadership

ReadHowYouWant

Leaders today - whether in corporations or associations, nonprofits or nations - face massive, messy, multidimensional problems. No one person or group can possibly solve them - they require the broadest possible cooperation. But, says Harvard scholar Dean Williams, our leadership models are still essentially tribal: individuals with formal authority leading in the interest of their own group. In this deeply needed new book, he outlines an approach that enables leaders to transcend internal and external boundaries and help people to collaborate, even people over whom they technically have no power. Drawing on what he's learned from years of working in countries and organizations around the world, Williams shows leaders how to approach the delicate and creative work of boundary spanning, whether those boundaries are cultural, organizational, political, geographic, religious, or structural. Sometimes leaders themselves have to be the ones who cross the boundaries between groups. Other times, a leader's job is to build relational bridges between divided groups or even to completely break down the boundaries that block collaborative problem solving. By thinking about power and authority in a different way, leaders will become genuine change agents, able to heal wounds, resolve conflicts, and bring a fractured world together.

Leadership for a Fractured World: How to Cross Boundaries, Build Bridges, and Lead Change [16 Pt Large Print Edition]

Star Wars Dark Forces: Soldier for the Empire (Star Wars)

Arts & Photography

DIETZ, WILLIAM C.

History & Criticism

Boxtree Ltd.

The Genius of Dean Williams, Publication No. 0425

Stuttering Foundation of America

In Real Leadership, Dean Williams argues that the true task of the leader is to get people to face the reality of any situation themselves and develop strategies to deal with problems or take advantage of opportunities. Leaders who are responsible with their power and authority don't dictate; they help people determine what shifts in their values, habits, practices and priorities will be needed to accommodate changing conditions and new demands.

Real Leadership: Helping People and Organizations Face Their Toughest Challenges

Leadership for a Fractured World: How to Cross Boundaries, Build Bridges, and Lead Change

Kyle Katarn is a decorated graduate from the Imperial Military Academy who would forfeit his very life for the Empire. But he wouldn't forfeit his father's life, and that's what the Empire has taken. Kyle is willing to do anything to avenge his father's death, which is what the Rebel Alliance is counting on.

Star Wars - Dark Forces: Soldier for the Empire

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Dark Horse Books

Too many organizations today play follow the leader: the commander articulates a “vision” and people uncritically go along with it. But this type of leadership—what Dean Williams calls "counterfeit leadership"—generates an unhealthy dependence on an authority figure and relies on dominance, control, and group seduction to get things done. By hampering people’s ability to anticipate and react to changing circumstances, it creates a self-limiting cycle. And if the leader’s vision is flawed, the entire organization suffers. The true task of a leader, Williams argues, is to get people to face the reality of any situation themselves and develop strategies to deal with problems or take advantage of opportunities. Real leaders don’t dictate; they help people face their challenges and make adjustments in their values, habits, practices, and priorities to ensure the enterprise is given its best chance to succeed. Williams details how to apply this new approach to the challenges every organization or community faces. Throughout, he demonstrates the practical application of real leadership in the real world through examples from his own experiences working with organizations as diverse as the government of Singapore, Aetna Life and Casualty, and the nomadic Penan tribe in Borneo, as well as historical examples and the insights gleaned from his many interviews with presidents, prime ministers, and business leaders. At a time when so many “visionary” leaders have led their organizations to disaster, Real Leadership offers a needed, proven alternative.

Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Leaders today—whether in corporations or associations, nonprofits or nations—face massive, messy, multidimensional problems. No one person or group can possibly solve them—they require the broadest possible cooperation. But, says Harvard scholar Dean Williams, our leadership models are still essentially tribal: individuals with formal authority leading in the interest of their own group. In this deeply needed new book, he outlines an approach that enables leaders to transcend internal and external boundaries and help people to collaborate, even people over whom they technically have no power. Drawing on what he’s learned from years of working in countries and organizations around the world, Williams shows leaders how to approach the delicate and creative work of boundary spanning, whether those boundaries are cultural, organizational, political, geographic, religious, or structural. Sometimes leaders themselves have to be the ones who cross the boundaries between groups. Other times, a leader’s job is to build relational bridges between divided groups or even to completely break down the boundaries that block collaborative problem solving. By thinking about power and authority in a different way, leaders will become genuine change agents, able to heal wounds, resolve conflicts, and bring a fractured world together.

Drawing on what he's learned from years of working in countries and organizations around the world, Williams shows leaders how to approach the delicate and creative work of boundary spanning, whether those boundaries are cultural, organizational, political, geographic, religious, or structural. Sometimes leaders themselves have to be the ones who cross the boundaries between groups. Other times, a leader's job is to build relational bridges between divided groups or even to completely break down the boundaries that block collaborative problem solving. By thinking about power and authority in a different way, leaders will become genuine change agents, able to heal wounds, resolve conflicts, and bring a fractured world together.

Dreamscape Media

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Real Leadership: Helping People and Organizations Face Their Toughest Challenges (16pt Large Print Edition)

Leadership for a Fractured World: How to Cross Boundaries, Build Bridges, and Lead Change [16 Pt Large Print Edition]

Star Wars Dark Forces: Soldier for the Empire (Star Wars)

The Genius of Dean Williams, Publication No. 0425

Real Leadership: Helping People and Organizations Face Their Toughest Challenges

Leadership for a Fractured World: How to Cross Boundaries, Build Bridges, and Lead Change

Star Wars - Dark Forces: Soldier for the Empire

Real Leadership: Helping People and Organizations Face Their Toughest Challenges

Leadership for a Fractured World: How to Cross Boundaries, Build Bridges, and Lead Change

Leadership for a Fractured World: How to Cross Boundaries, Build Bridges, and Lead Change