Synopses & Reviews
Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-330) and index.
Synopsis
The future of business growth is in the partnerships that companies and their executives form. Partnering explains how critical it is for business leaders to "partner" effectively, and features original contributions from more than 30 thought leaders, including such luminaries as Ken Blanchard, Jim Kouzes and Brian Tracy. Topics cover:
* Ken Blanchard on situational leadership * Beverly Kaye on building, living, and leaving a legacy for the organization * Kevin Cashman's Five Touchstones of Authentic Partnering Leadership * Robert Kaplan on the Balanced Scorecard for leadership * R. Roosevelt Thomas on fostering trust and resonance through diversity * Jim Kouzes on building cultures of collaboration * Brian Tracy on the importance and power of focus * Jon Katzenbach on where team performance fits in the balanced leadership approach
Table of Contents
PART ONE: Building successful organizations through partnerships --Changing role of leadership: building partnerships inside and outside the organization /Marshall Goldsmith --Use the balanced scorecard to partner with strategic constituents: employees, customers, suppliers, and communities /Robert S. Kaplan, David P. Norton --Demise of the celebrity-leader and the rise of partnership nodes /Sally Helgesen --Leadership partners: September 11, 2001 /Major General (USAF, Ret.) Donald W. Shepperd --Leading organizations into partnership /Elizabeth Pinchot, Gifford Pinchot --PART TWO: Partnerships and teambuilding: emerging dimensions for the leader as partner --Leadership partnering for performance: using situational leadership II to bring out the magnificence in people /Ken Blanchard --Leadership-as-partnership /Russ S. Moxley, John R. Alexander --Where team performance fits in a balanced leadership approach /Jon Katzenbach --Leaders must build cultures of collaboration /James M. Kouzes, Barry Z. Posner --Learning leader as partner /Judy Rosenblim, Cheryl Oates --Multiplicity of roles and demands for the leader as partner /Debra A. Noumair, W. Warner Burke --Accidental partner /Harvey Robbins --Rub somebody the right way /Bob Nelson --Leadership, management, partnership, and diversity /R. Roosevelt Thomas, Jr.--PART THREE: Becoming a global leader through partnerships --Leadership and alliances /Larraine Segil --Becoming a culturally literate leader in a global world /Robert Rosen --Leader as partner: a contrast of European and American leadership styles /Stephan A. Friedrich ... et al. --Global leader as partner /Maya Hu-Chan, Brian O. Underhill --Leadership and the rapidly changing global environment /Fariborz Ghadar --Dilemmas of multicultural leaders: the need for transcultural competence /Fons Trompenaars, Peter Woolliams --Leader as partner: the reality of political power /Rt. Hon. Kim Campbell --Global companies, global society: there is a better way /Nancy J. Adler --PART FOUR: The leader as partner: succeeding in a complex world --Leader as partner-coach and people developer /James Belasco --Power of focus /Brian Tracy --Five touchstones to authentic partnering as a leader /Kevin Cashman --How high-impact leaders use the power of conversation to build partnerships /Phil Harkins --Leader in the digital age /Elliott Masie --Legacy consciousness: an essential leadership role /Beverly Kaye, Betsy Jacobson --Connecting who we are with what we do /Richard J. Leider --High self-esteem leader /Nathaniel Branden.