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Leadership Can Be Taught: A Bold Approach for a Complex World
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If leaders are made, not born, what is the best way to teach the skills they need to be effective? Today's complex times require a new kind of leadership--one that encompasses a mind-set and capabilities that can't necessarily be taught by conventional methods. In this unique leadership book, Sharon Daloz Parks invites readers to step into the classroom of Harvard leadership virtuoso Ronald Heifetz and his colleagues to understand this dynamic type of leadership and experience a corresponding mode of learning called "case in point." Unlike traditional teaching approaches that analyze the experiences of past leaders, case in point uses individuals' own experiences--and the classroom environment itself--as a crucible for learning. This bold approach enables emerging leaders to work actively through the complex demands of today's workplace and build their skills as they discover theory in practice. Through an engaging, you-are-there writing style, Parks outlines essential features of this approach that can be applied across a range of settings. In the process, Leadership Can Be Taught reveals how we can learn, practice, and teach the art of leadership in more skilled, effective, and inspired forms. Sharon Daloz Parks is director of leadership for the New Commons--an initiative of the Whidbey Institute in Clinton, WA. She has held faculty and research positions at the Harvard Divinity School, Harvard Business School, and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. (From the Publisher)
Table Of Content:
Foreword
Acknowledgments
ch. 1 Leadership for a Changing Word - A Call to Adaptive Work
ch. 2 How De We Begin? - Differing Expectations
ch. 3 What is Really Going On Here? - Engaging People at the Edge of Learning
ch. 4 Learning from Failure in Public - The Power of Small Group Consultation
ch. 5 Listening to the Music Beneath the Words - The Practice of Presence
ch. 6 What Endures? - The Power of Language, Image, and Metaphor
ch. 7 Courage and Costs - Discovering How to Teach the Unteachable
ch. 8 The Same Approach - Other Teachers - The Question of Transferability
ch. 9 Toward a More Adequate Myth - The Art of Leadership
ch. 10 Leadership Can Be-Learned - Strengths and Limitations of This Approach
Notes
Index
About the Author
If leaders are made, not born, what is the best way to teach the skills they need to be effective? Today's complex times require a new kind of leadership--one that encompasses a mind-set and capabilities that can't necessarily be taught by conventional methods. In this unique leadership book, Sharon Daloz Parks invites readers to step into the classroom of Harvard leadership virtuoso Ronald Heifetz and his colleagues to understand this dynamic type of leadership and experience a corresponding mode of learning called "case in point." Unlike traditional teaching approaches that analyze the experiences of past leaders, case in point uses individuals' own experiences--and the classroom environment itself--as a crucible for learning. This bold approach enables emerging leaders to work actively through the complex demands of today's workplace and build their skills as they discover theory in practice. Through an engaging, you-are-there writing style, Parks outlines essential features of this approach that can be applied across a range of settings. In the process, Leadership Can Be Taught reveals how we can learn, practice, and teach the art of leadership in more skilled, effective, and inspired forms. Sharon Daloz Parks is director of leadership for the New Commons--an initiative of the Whidbey Institute in Clinton, WA. She has held faculty and research positions at the Harvard Divinity School, Harvard Business School, and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. (From the Publisher)
Table Of Content:
Foreword
Acknowledgments
ch. 1 Leadership for a Changing Word - A Call to Adaptive Work
ch. 2 How De We Begin? - Differing Expectations
ch. 3 What is Really Going On Here? - Engaging People at the Edge of Learning
ch. 4 Learning from Failure in Public - The Power of Small Group Consultation
ch. 5 Listening to the Music Beneath the Words - The Practice of Presence
ch. 6 What Endures? - The Power of Language, Image, and Metaphor
ch. 7 Courage and Costs - Discovering How to Teach the Unteachable
ch. 8 The Same Approach - Other Teachers - The Question of Transferability
ch. 9 Toward a More Adequate Myth - The Art of Leadership
ch. 10 Leadership Can Be-Learned - Strengths and Limitations of This Approach
Notes
Index
About the Author