Cover -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1: It Goes with the Territory - Leadership Moments -- Two Moments -- Moment 1 -- Moment 2 -- Another Book about Leadership? -- Leadership Moments -- What Happened to George S. Patton -- Leadership as Character -- Two Arguments -- Warren Buffett - Driven by His Compass -- Who Are You? The Compass Question -- The "I" of Leadership - The Story of this Book -- 2: Leadership in the Wild - The Evolution of Power -- Leading by Fear -- The Uncle Joe Strategy -- Animal Dominance -- The Politics of Leadership -- Human Leadership -- "We Don't Need Another Hero" -- The Point of Leadership -- 3: A Very Short History of Leadership -- The Beginning of History -- The Rule of Cultural Evolution -- Tribal Leadership -- Cool and the Gang -- The Eras of Leadership -- Paths to Power -- Emergent -- Hereditary -- Conquest -- Elected -- Appointed -- The Lesson of History for Leadership -- 4: Leadership as Strategy - Situations, Processes and Qualities (SPQ) -- The IBM Story -- Adaptation to Ecological Change -- The Leadership Formula -- The Adaptive Leader -- The Six Principles -- 5: Who am I? Leadership Qualities and the Compass Question -- The Compass Question -- 6: The "Eye" of Leadership - The Law of the Situation -- Job Change as World Change -- Where Are We? What Is a Leadership Situation? -- Position/Powers -- Challenge -- Organization -- External Environment -- People -- Constructed Reality -- A World of Lost Leadership - Financial Services 2007-2012 -- 7: The Adaptive Leader - Leadership Processes -- The Obama Dilemma -- What Do Leaders Do, Anyway? -- The Saving Gift: Processes -- The Versatility Struggle -- The Duke Ellington Method -- 8: Dynamic Leadership - Shaping and Discovery -- Path 1: Shaping and Selecting1 -- Path 2: Discovery -- 9: Reading The World - A Leadership Conundrum.

Path 3: Shot Selection -- Path 4: Insight -- 10: Born to Lead? Leaders Lost and Found -- Lee Kuan Yew - Leader Extraordinaire -- The Emergent Leader3 -- Path 5: Instinct/Self-Knowledge -- Poor Jacques -- Path 6: Self-Control and Self-Development -- 11: Who's Your Buddy? Critical Leader Relationships -- Love, Actually? -- Rich Pickings -- What and Why? -- How? -- Who? -- The Perfect CLR Is with . . . -- The Right Conversation -- 12: Destiny, Drama and Deliberation - The Lives of Leaders -- Andre's Story -- Destiny, Drama and Deliberation - How Lives are Made -- Mo Ibrahim's Story -- The Duke -- Steve Jobs -- Lifetimes of Transitions18 -- 13: The "I" of Leadership - Inside the Mind of the Leader -- The Strange Voyage of Donald Crowhurst1 -- The Curse of the Self -- Does the Self "Exist?" A Brief But Important Digression -- The Self-Regulated Leader -- A Model of Self-Regulation -- The Self-Regulation of Desire - The Battle for Purpose -- Leadership Willpower - The Battle for Control -- Visions of Reality - The Battle for Truth -- "I" Meets "Me" - the Battle for Identity -- What It Takes to Lead - The Battle for Performance -- 14: Games Leaders Play - Finding the Narrative -- The Invented Self: Who Am I, Revisited -- The Games Leaders Play -- 1. Driven by Desire -- 2. Protecting the Executive Ego23 -- 3. Imprisoned by Experience -- 4. Ego-mania -- 5. Action Addiction -- The Leadership Narrative -- Narratives vs. Scripts: Emma's Dilemma and The Agony of Agassi -- The Leader's Story - Connecting Identity with History -- 15: The Self-Management of Leadership - You, Others and Organization -- Disciplines - From Inside-Out to Outside-In -- Disciplines of the Self -- Other People - The Power of Decentering -- Organizing for Authenticity -- 16: Can Leaders Save the World? Vision, Identity and Passion -- Do We Need Leaders?.

Are We in Need of a New Model for Our Times? -- In this Context, How Can We Get Better Leaders? -- How Can We Help Leaders to Lead Better? -- Be Real -- Decenter -- Build Ensembles -- Scan and Scout -- Frame the Journey -- Endnotes -- Index.