Synopses & Reviews
The Leader of the Future is a compendium of new thought. It is a book about the future quality of our lives, our businesses, our organizations, our society?and the leadership required to move us into the exciting unknown. This book demonstrates:How leaders emerge, indepAndent of official rank or status, from within organizations that nurture dispersed authorityHow leadership roles are defined for those willing to assume responsibility for fostering change though ?leading the learning organization?How leaders motivate by turning the organizational pyramid upside downHow partnering has become a primary skill of the world-class leaderHow to break the myth that only a lucky few can ever decipher the leadership codeHow the leader of the next millennium will create a culture based on principles ? all within a turbulent worldHow to inspire hope and purpose in those who want direction and wish to contributeAll the authors define their own scenarios, as different and compelling as their individual records of success?and each powerfully relevant to the future of business, government, and the nonprofit sectors.
Review
"The Leader of the Future is a thought-provoking collection of essays that gets readers up to speed on the most important trAnds facing today's leaders. It's a one-stop shopping guide that shows how leaders can be successful in the year 2000 and beyond." (American Society for Training and Development)
"This anthology of insightful essays, compiled by the Drucker Foundation, serves as a compass for leadership in the 21st century." (American Management Association)
Synopsis
Leading-Edge Thought From the World's Best Business Minds "A one-stop shopping guide that shows how leaders can be successful in the year 2000 and beyond."
--American Society for Training and Development
Discover what Stephen Covey, Ken Blanchard, Peter Senge, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, and other business-world luminaries have to say about the direction of leadership for the future. The Drucker Foundation brings together the best business minds in more than 30 never-before-published essays, each one offering a special perspective on leadership and a unique glimpse into the future.
Synopsis
The prestigious Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management brings together a peerless selection of leaders, respected executives, best-selling authors, and world-renowned consultants who share their visions of the future of leadership. The Leader of the Future is a compAndium of new thought, a book about the future quality of our lives, our businesses, our organizations, our society and the leadership required to move us into the organization of the future.
About the Author
FRANCES HESSELBEIN is chairman of the board of governors of the Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management and editor-in-chief of Leader to Leader. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, in 1998. MARSHALL GOLDSMITH has been rated by the Wall Street Journal as one of the top ten consultants in the field of executive development. RICHARD BECKHARD is a former professor at the Sloan School of Management at MIT. Author of six books, he is an organization development consultant living in New York City.
Table of Contents
Foreword.
LEADING THE ORGANIZATION OF THE FUTURE.
The New Language of Organizing and Its Implications for Leaders (C. Handy).
Leading the De-Jobbed Organization (W. Bridges).
Leading from the Grassroots (S. Helgesen).
Creating Organizations with Many Leaders (G. Pinchot).
Leading Learning Organizations: The Bold, the Powerful, and the Invisible (P. Senge).
Leadership and Organizational Culture (E. Schein).
Leading a Diverse Workforce (J. Work).
Turning the Organizational Pyramid Upside Down (K. Blanchard).
FUTURE LEADERS IN ACTION.
World-Class Leaders: The Power of Partnering (R. Kanter).
Seven Lessons for Leading the Voyage to the Future (J. Kouzes & B. Posner).
Leaders Who Shape and Keep Performance-Oriented Culture (J. Heskett & L. Schlesinger).
The "How to Be" Leader (F. Hesselbein).
On Future Leaders (R. Beckhard).
Peacetime Management and Wartime Leadership (J. Bardwick).
A Recipe for Glue (D. Noer).
LEARNING TO LEAD FOR TOMORROW.
Three Roles of the Leader in the New Paradigm (S. Covey).
Developing Three-Dimensional Leaders (J. Bolt).
New Skills for New Leadership Roles (C. Farren & B. Kaye).
The Ultimate Leadership Task: Self-Leadership (R. Leider).
The Following Part of Leading (D. Smith).
Credibility X Credibility (D. Ulrich).
Learning from Past Leaders (W. Wilhelm).
Ask, Learn, Follow Up, and Grow (M. Goldsmith).
EXECUTIVES ON THE FUTURE OF LEADERSHIP.
The Leader Who Serves (C. Pollard).
A Constitutional Model of Leadership (A. DeCrane).
Either/Or Yields to the Theory of Both (A. Mandl & D. Sethi).
Key Leadership Challenges for Present and Future Executives (W. Steere).
Energy and Leadership (W. Plamondon).
The Puzzles of Leadership (S. Bornstein & A. Smith).
An "Outsider's" View of Leadership (S. MelAndez).
Growing Tomorrow's Leaders (G. Weber).