Leadership for a Fractured World (eBook)

How to Cross Boundaries, Build Bridges, and Lead Change

Dean Williams (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2015
240 Seiten
Berrett-Koehler Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-62656-267-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Leaders todaywhether in corporations or associations, nonprofits or nationsface massive, messy, multidimensional problems. No one person or group can possibly solve themthey require the broadest possible cooperation. But, says Harvard scholar Dean Williams, our leadership models are still essentially tribal: individuals with formal authority leading in the interest of their own group. In this deeply needed new book, he outlines an approach that enables leaders to transcend internal and external boundaries and help people to collaborate, even people over whom they technically have no power.Drawing on what he's learned from years of working in countries and organizations around the world, Williams shows leaders how to approach the delicate and creative work of boundary spanning, whether those boundaries are cultural, organizational, political, geographic, religious, or structural. Sometimes leaders themselves have to be the ones who cross the boundaries between groups. Other times, a leader's job is to build relational bridges between divided groups or even to completely break down the boundaries that block collaborative problem solving. By thinking about power and authority in a different way, leaders will become genuine change agents, able to heal wounds, resolve conflicts, and bring a fractured world together.

Inhalt

Content
Chapter 1. It Is a Crazy and Fractured World
Chapter 2. The Need for Change Agent Leadership
Chapter 3. Shifting the Group Cultural Drift to Become More Adaptive
Chapter 4. Crossing Boundaries
Chapter 5. Busting Boundaries
Chapter 6. Building Bridges over Deep Fractures
Chapter 7. Transcending Boundaries
Chapter 8. Keep Yourself from Fracturing

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.2.2015
• Verlagsort: Oakland
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Sammeln / Sammlerkataloge
• Schlagworte: leadership, global leadership, how to help people collaborate, how to build bridges, how to cross boundaries, decision-making, problem solving, books for politicians, books for CEOs, resolving conflicts, creating change, globalization, business • Leadership, power, change agents, globalization, problem solving, boundaries, interdependence
• ISBN-10: 1-62656-267-9 / 1626562679
• ISBN-13: 978-1-62656-267-7 / 9781626562677