The Leader of the Future 2: Visions, Strategies, and Practices for the New Era

by Hesselbein, Frances; Goldsmith, Marshall

• ISBN13: 9780787986674
• ISBN10: 0787986674
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-09-18
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass

Summary

Today's top thinkers in the field offer their vision of leadership for a new generation The Leader of the Future sold 200,000 copies and broke new ground in leadership literature. Now, ten years later, The Leader of the Future 2 gives voice to the most critical issues and transformative ideas for the leaders of today and tomorrow. The book features a who's who of today's top leadership thinkers from the private, nonprofit, and public sectors, with many of the thought leaders from The Leader of the Future returning to offer their insights, including: Ken Blanchard Stephen Covey Charles Handy Sally Helgeson Rosabeth Moss Kanter Jim Kouzes & Barry Posner Peter Senge Ed Schein John Alexander Howard Gardner Brian Connell Jeff Pfeffer Gen. Eric Shinseki Noel Tichy Frances Hesselbein (New York, NY) is founding President and Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Leader to Leader Institute and Editor in Chief of its journal Leader to Leader. Hesselbein was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States' highest civilian honor, in 1998. Marshall Goldsmith (Rancho Santa Fe, CA) is listed in Forbes magazine as one of five top executive coaches and in Human Resources magazine as one of the world's leading HR consultants.

Author Biography

Frances Hesselbein is the founding president and chairman of the Leader to Leader Institute, formerly the Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management. She served as CEO of the Girl Scouts of the USA and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. She is the author of Hesselbein on Leadership, coeditor of twenty other books including Be, Know, Do, and the editor-in-chief of the journal Leader to Leader.

Marshall Goldsmith has been recognized for his outstanding work in leadership and management by the American Management Association, Business Week, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and The Economist. In addition to The Leader of the Future 2, Goldsmith is the author or coeditor of twenty-two books, including the upcoming What Got You Here Won't Get You There.

The Leader to Leader Institute's mission is to strengthen the leadership of the social sector. Established in 1990 as the Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management, the Institute, in collaboration with its partners in the private and public sectors, furthers its mission by providing social sector leaders with the essential leadership wisdom, inspiration, and resources needed to lead for innovation and to build vibrant social nonprofit organizations.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Frances Hesselbein and Marshall Goldsmith
Part One: A Vision of Leadership
1. Peter F. Drucker on Executive Leadership and Effectiveness	3	(28)
Joseph A. Maciariello
Part Two: Leading in a Diverse World
2. Systems Citizenship: The Leadership Mandate for This Millennium	31	(16)
Peter Senge
3. Diversity Management: An Essential Craft for Future Leaders	47	(8)
R. Roosevelt Thomas Jr.
4. Ten Things I Learned About Leadership from Women Executive Directors of Color	55	(6)
Jan Masaoka
5. How Cosmopolitan Leaders Inspire Confidence: A Profile of the Future	61	(12)
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Part Three: Leading in a Time of Crisis and Complexity
6. Anchoring Leadership in the Work of Adaptive Progress	73	(12)
Ronald A. Heifetz
7. The Challenge of Complexity	85	(10)
John Alexander
8. Understanding the Nonprofit Sector's Leadership Deficit	95	(12)
Thomas J. Tierney
9. Leadership Over Fear	107	(6)
John Edwin Mroz
10. Leading in a Constantly Changing World	113	(8)
Ponchitta Pierce
11. Leaders of the Future: Growing One-Eyed Kings	121	(10)
General Eric K. Shinseki
Part Four: Leading Organizations of the Future
12. Philosopher Leaders	131	(10)
Charles Handy
13. Leadership as a Brand	141	(12)
Dave Ulrich and Norm Smallwood
14. Regaining Public Trust: A Leadership Challenge	153	(12)
Ken Blanchard and Dennis Carey
15. Leading New Age Professionals	165	(8)
Marshall Goldsmith
16. Tomorrow's Leader	173	(10)
Srikumar S. Rao
17. Challenges for Leaders in the Years Ahead	183	(8)
Sally Helgesen
18. Leadership Judgment at the Front Line	191	(16)
Noel M. Tichy and Chris DeRose
19. It's Not Just the Leader's Vision	207	(8)
Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner
Part Five: The Quality and Character of the Leader of the Future
20. Leading in the Knowledge Worker Age	215	(12)
Stephen R. Covey
21. Are the Best Leaders Like Professors? Teaching, Asking Questions, and Evidence-Based Management	227	(14)
Jeffrey Pfeffer
22. The Leader Integrator: An Emerging Role	241	(14)
Usman A. Ghani
23. Leadership Competencies: A Provocative New Look	255	(10)
Edgar H. Schein
24. The Three Elements of Good Leadership in Rapidly Changing Times	265	(16)
Lynn Barendsen and Howard Gardner
25. Distinctive Characteristics of Successful Leaders of Voluntary Organizations: Past, Present, and Future	281	(8)
Brian O'Connell
26. The Leader in Midlife	289	(8)
Richard J. Leider
27. Leading from the Spirit	297	(6)
Darlyne Bailey
The Editors	303	(2)
Index	305