The Connected Leader

by Gobillot, Emmanuel

• ISBN13: 9780749452766
• ISBN10: 0749452765
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-06-01
• Publisher: Kogan Page Ltd

Summary

Traditional organizational boundaries limit our ability to deliver results. The Connected Leader argues that many of the old leadership recipes are outdated and don't take into account changes in the work environment and informal social networks within the organization. Taking a new approach to leadership theory, the author argues that modern leaders engage with employees and improve performance by building on trust, giving meaning to workplace relationships and by creating dialogue within the organization. The Connected Leader provides diagnostic tools for readers to evaluate their own skills and directly relate the insights from the book to their own situation. International case studies provide clear examples of connected leadership.

Author Biography

Emmanuel Gobillot is a senior practitioner in the area of leadership and organization effectiveness.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
The case for connections	p. 11
What do people want?	p. 13
What drives engagement and why does it matter?	p. 14
How is the nature of engagement changing?	p. 17
What are the new rules of engagement?	p. 20
The 30-second recap	p. 26
The leadership takeaway	p. 28
How do organizations respond?	p. 31
How do organizations and individuals become disconnected?	p. 32
What does an organization designed for engagement look like?	p. 43
The 30-second recap	p. 48
The leadership takeaway	p. 51
Do you know what people want?	p. 53
The case for connected leadership	p. 61
What must leaders do?	p. 63
What do leaders do?	p. 64
What impact do leaders create?	p. 69
The 30-second recap	p. 77
The leadership takeaway	p. 78
How can leaders succeed?	p. 81
How do leaders achieve high performance in the people economy?	p. 82
What is different about the new high-performing leadership recipe?	p. 86
The 30-second recap	p. 96
The leadership takeaway	p. 98
Are you ready to respond?	p. 99
The levers of connected leadership	p. 109
How to connect through trust	p. 111
Why is trust critical to connected leaders?	p. 112
How do connected leaders create and sustain trust?	p. 117
Becoming a trusted channel	p. 118
Exercising thoughtful influence	p. 121
Having concern for impact	p. 123
The 30-second recap	p. 125
The leadership takeaway	p. 127
How to engage through meaning	p. 129
Why is meaning critical to performance?	p. 130
How do connected leaders co-create meaning?	p. 137
Having no boundaries	p. 138
Doing the groundwork	p. 140
Being tenacious	p. 142
The 30-second recap	p. 144
The leadership takeaway	p. 146
How to sustain performance through dialogue	p. 147
Why does real dialogue matter to performance?	p. 148
How do connected leaders sustain dialogue?	p. 154
Listening first	p. 154
Humility	p. 156
Infectious passion	p. 158
The 30-second recap	p. 160
The leadership takeaway	p. 162
How connected are you?	p. 163
Developing connected leadership	p. 169
Understand the 'real'	p. 171
Mapping your 'real' organization	p. 172
Patterns of 'real' organizations	p. 173
Creating a 'real' map	p. 176
Map out the 'formal'/'real' gap	p. 179
The gap matters	p. 180
The key questions	p. 181
Evaluate your impact	p. 183
iPod leadership	p. 184
Developing strategies	p. 186
Develop connected leadership characteristics	p. 189
Integrated versus sequential development	p. 190
Developing characteristics	p. 194
Developing trust	p. 194
Developing meaning	p. 195
Developing dialogue	p. 197
Development tactics	p. 198
Build a supporting context	p. 201
Contextual improvement	p. 202
Impact as the key to unlocking connections	p. 204
The leadership takeaway	p. 206
Concluding thoughts	p. 209
Notes	p. 211
Index	p. 215
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