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Leaders
Must Lead!
©
Orxestra Inc. 2003
Leadership is at a premium. Even the
best enterprises are woefully short of talent. Where did all the
leaders go? They didn't go anywhere. What the times demand is
leadership of an entirely different order.
Without vibrant and energetic
leadership, organizations cannot survive. Millions spent on the finest
consulting minds count for naught if the talent to carry out that
prescribed is lacking. The most elegant structure is a mere bagatelle
if inspiration is missing. Even the most elegant systems are redundant
without trust. An organization without leadership is an empty shell.
It's all about leadership! But, and this is an important but, leaders
must lead. Leaders must be given the opportunity to lead,
they must be given the space to lead, they must be provided with the
tools to lead but, most important of all, those in positions of
responsibility must have the inner fiber that compels them to
lead. Anything less is to strive for mediocrity.
Written with a storytelling cadence,
Leaders Must Lead! looks at leadership from three quite distinct
perspectives...
Book One: Leadership of the
Organization. Chapter One looks at strategy, speed, and
simplicity. Not strategic planning of which a great deal is written,
but strategy implementation. A good many leaders can develop a
strategy. It's making it happen that is the difference that makes a
difference. Speed and simplicity are natural and essential elements of
implementing strategy. Chapter Two explores the challenge of building
common ground: connectability, convergence and creative collaboration.
Chapter Three looks at the relationship between learning and change.
Book Two: Leadership of Others.
It's tough to argue with the statement, "leadership is about
followship." Book Two focuses on four of the critical building
blocks of followship: leadership style (Chapter Four); storytelling
(Chapter Five); talent acquisition (Chapter Six); and executive
coaching (Chapter Seven).
Book Three: Leadership of Self.
Book Three draws on the insight, language and awareness found in Books
One and Two. If the book is, in any way, a journey of discovery,
leadership of self is where the various threads are woven into a
single tapestry. Accordingly, Chapter Eight takes a deeper look at
what is meant by leadership of self. Chapter Nine is described by its
title...It's all about trust. And the final chapter, Chapter Ten,
poses fundamental questions about personal mastery.
If there is one thing that those who
have read Leaders Must Lead! all agree on it is the practical nature
of the material. Leadership is ultimately a practical discipline, it's
about action. Accordingly, each chapter ends with a full page of ideas
about "What to do differently on Monday." |
