Best in Us : People, Profit, and the Remaking of Modern Leadership.
Title:
Best in Us : People, Profit, and the Remaking of Modern Leadership.
Author:
Stevens, Cleve.
ISBN:
9780825306204
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (412 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- A Note to the Reader -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Modern Mess and Why It Calls for The Best in Us -- Part I: When Nothing Less Will Do: Transformation, Leadership, and Achieving the Extraordinary -- Chapter 1 Why Transformation Matters and a Big Distinction -- Chapter 2 An Entirely Different Game: The Emergence (and Basics) of Transformative Leadership -- Chapter 3 Dispatches from the Gates of Hell: Disclosing New Worlds (and Upending Old Ones) -- Part II: A Leader's Transformative Quest: Summoning the Best We Have Within -- Chapter 4 Getting the Picture: A View from the Top -- Chapter 5 The Transforming Triad: A Metaphor with Three Legs -- LEG 1: Responsibility and Changing Our Minds -- Chapter 6 Acknowledgment: Facing Up to Our Unconscious Condition -- Chapter 7 Responsibility: Embracing Our Causality -- Chapter 8 Responsibility in Action: The Case of Charlie Costas -- Chapter 9 Recognition: Seeing Our Personal Paradigms -- Chapter 10 Recognition: Nailing Our Limiting Beliefs -- Chapter 11 Changing Our Minds to Change Our Brains: The Beginnings of a Practice -- Chapter 12 Changing Our Brains to Change Our Minds: Rewiring Our Circuits -- LEG 2: Intention and Possibility -- Chapter 13 Intention: The Heart of Power -- Chapter 14 Possibility: The Mind of Power -- LEG 3: Contribution -- Chapter 15 Contribution: The Soul of Power -- Chapter 16 In Search of Adulthood: Fear and Loathing in Guestville and Playing to Win -- Chapter 17 Transformation in Action: Power in Five Acts -- Part III: Convention Turned on Its Ear: Transformative Leadership and the Organization -- Chapter 18 Experiments in Radical Honesty: The World has Forever Changed-So Must How We Lead -- Chapter 19 The Transformative Leader in Profile -- Chapter 20 Adventures in Audacity I: A Transformative, Visionary Organization-Cox Arizona.
Chapter 21 Adventures in Audacity II: The Nature of the Transformative Vision -- Chapter 22 The Transformative Team and the End of a Myth: Beyond Laziness and Fear -- Chapter 23 A Leadership Team That Actually Leads: Rising Above the Reasonable -- Chapter 24 The Transformative Organization: Playing the Big Game -- Chapter 25 Taking Yourself On as a Leader: The Only Way Out Is Through the Middle -- Epilogue: Is It Too Much to Ask? -- Appendix: From Transactional to Transformative: Getting It All Started -- Notes -- Annotated Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z -- List of Boxes, Exercises, Figures, and Tables -- About the Author.
Abstract:
We have lost sight of the big picture, forgetting that success cannot be measured in profit alone. This narrow focus, particularly from our political and corporate leaders, is one of the primary reasons for our continuing economic crisis. We need a fresh approach to leadership to turn things around.This new leadership must focus on the people who help generate the profits in addition to the profits themselves. In our hyper-connected world of instant information and democratic openness, the importance of a strong community only grows, and companies that continue to neglect their community are poised for failure. Hope for a healthy economy can be found in the untapped talent of our people--and in a commitment to excellence as the means for awakening that talent.In The Best in Us, leadership expert and social ethicist Dr. Cleve Stevens, offers a daring and radical new take on leading that emphasizes the rigorous development of leaders and followers. It's the people-centric organizations, the ones fueled by a drive for excellence, that will be the most profitable in the coming decades.The new approach, called transforming integrative leadership, or simply transformative leadership, is a compelling, highly effective step-by-step process. Dr. Stevens shows what the transformative organization looks like and precisely how the intended growth for the individual, the organization, and the bottom line is achieved.The transforming integrative approach outlined in The Best in Us is our best way forward. It's the first brave but necessary step toward a healthy business climate and a reinvigorated global economy.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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