The Many Facets of Leadership

by Goldsmith, Marshall; Govindarajan, Vijay; Kaye, Beverly; Vicere, Albert A.

• ISBN13: 9780131005334
• ISBN10: 0131005332
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-09-20
• Publisher: Ft Pr

Summary

The Many Facets of Leadership brings together new essays on leading change, on dealing with complexity and ambiguity, on building learning organizations and promoting innovation, and on the new constellation of skills required to manage knowledge workers in today's global organization.

Author Biography

Marshall Goldsmith is one of the world's foremost authorities in helping leaders achieve a positive, measurable change in behavior for themselves, their people, and their teams. His work has been positively recognized by The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and The New Yorker. With Frances Hesselbein and Dick Beckhard, he edited The Leader of the Future (a BusinessWeek bestseller), The Organization of the Future, and The Community of the Future. Five of his recent books have been ranked #1 in their field by amazon.com. Vijay Govindarajan is the Earl C. Daum 1924 Professor of International Business and director of the William F.Achtmeyer Center for Global Leadership at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. He has extensively published in the areas of strategy and organization and has received numerous scholarly awards, including the Glueck Best Research Paper Award in Business Policy and Strategy from the Academy of Management. He has been rated by BusinessWeek as a Top Ten Professor in Corporate Executive Education. Beverly Kaye, co-author of the international bestseller Love 'Em or Lose 'Em: Getting Good People to Stay and author of the classic Up Is Not The Only Way, is one of the nation's leading authorities on career development, mentoring, retention, and engagement. She is founder and president of Career Systems International, Scranton, PA. As a sought-after speaker and consultant on talent management issues, Dr. Kaye counts some of the nation's leading corporations as her clients. She is an active member of the American Society for Training & Development, and she has received their National Career Development Award and Best Practice Award for her work. Albert A. Vicere is Executive Education Professor of Strategic Leadership at Penn State's Smeal College of Business and President of Vicere Associates, Inc., a consulting firm whose clients span the globe. He is a recipient of the Smeal College's MBA Excellence in Teaching Award, the Institute for Management Studies' Distinguished Faculty Award, and two Literati Clubs Awards for Excellence in writing and research. He is the author of several books and more than 70 articles.

Table of Contents

Foreword.
Introduction.

I. FORGING AHEAD: THE QUEST FOR KNOWLEDGE.

1. Intelligence on Intelligence and the Development of Intellectual Capital by Tony Buzan.

Intellectual Capital and Mental Literacy. The Awakening of a Sleeping Giant.

2. Organizational Renewal: Overcoming Mental Blind Spots by Paul J. H. Schoemaker, Ph.D.

Mental Blind Spots. Overcoming Mental Blind Spots. Conclusion.

3. The Creativity and Commitment Connection by Amarjit Chopra.

Unblocking Innovation. The Power of Bad Ideas. A Quick Overview of the Process. The Morals of the Story.

4. The Negotiation Revolution by William Ury.

Negotiation Is a Growth Industry. Negotiation: a Core Competency.

5. The Role of Chaos in the Creation of Change by John J. Scherer.

Pain: The Father of Change. Possibility: The Mother of Change. What Blocks Possibility? Chaos: The Birth Passage for Creative Change.

6. Fundamentalism and Panaceas by Russell L. Ackoff.

Fundamentalism. Panaceas.

II. FACILITATING CHANGE: THE LEADER'S ROLE.

7. Leadership in the Networked Economy by Albert A. Vicere.

The Changing Leadership Landscape. The Next Wave. The Leadership Challenge. New Leadership Mindsets. Meeting the Challenge. Conclusion.

8. The Organizational Change Leader by W. Warner Burke.

Four Phases of Organizational Change and the Leader's Roles. Summary.

9. Entrepreneurial Leadership: Building Capacity for Speed, Risk, and Continuous Innovation by Joel R. DeLuca.

Historical Background. Entrepreneurship. Leadership. The Emerging Convergence of Two Ships. Dynamic Stability: A Basis for Entrepreneurial Leadership. A Working Model of Entrepreneurial Leadership. The Potential Value of the Model as a Working Guide. Key Counterintuitive Behaviors of Entrepreneurial Leaders. Smart Moves. How the Business Playing Field Is Shifting. Summary.

10. Leadership: Reflections and Learnings by Robert Terry.

A Consciousness-Competence Frame. Core Versus Shared Values. Change. Mission Statements. Core Competencies. Best Practices. Language. Coaching and Mentoring. Team and Group Building. Beyond Spirituality in the Workplace. Leadership Education. Follow-up.

11. Experience Is Still the Best Teacher by Michael M. Lombardo and Robert W. Eichinger.

The Nature of the Experience. The Experience Catalog. True Development.

12. Polarity Management: One Tool for Managing Complexity and Ambiguity by Barry Johnson.

Effective Leaders Manage Complexity and Ambiguity. A Multipurpose Swiss Army Knife for the Leader's Toolbox. How Is this Tool Used? Two Application Stories. Polarity Management-A Summary Introduction. Summary.

13. Facing the Paradoxes of Leadership: Eight Rules by Peter Koestenbaum.

Experience Life as Paradox. Do Not Rationalize but Feel the Pain. Polarities Need Each Other. Alternation Beats Prioritizing. There Is Power in Dialogue. Paradoxes Provoke the Mind to Breakthroughs. Each Choice Changes Your Environment. Practice Democracy. Conclusion.

14. Human Influence by Charles E. Dwyer.

Values. Behavior. Changing Self. Perception and Anticipation. The Mosaic. Filters and Data Fragments. Language. Values, Perceptions, and Behavior. Problems with the Negative Approach. Application of the Five-Step Model. Dealing With Groups.

III. MAKING THE GRADE: NEW LEADERSHIP SKILLS.

15. Help Them Grow or Watch Them Go: A Development Edge Gives Retention Results by Beverly L. Kaye.

A Pop Quiz. Level About Their Strengths and Development Needs. Look Ahead at Trends, Business Needs, and Company Culture. Development Pays Off.

16. The Newest Leadership Skills by Randall P. White and Philip Hodgson.

Identifying New Leaders. The Task and the People. Command and Control. I Have a Dream£. Learning Leadership. A Final Word.

17. When Good People Do Bad Things: The Anatomy of a Corporate Disaster by Ronald M. Green.

The Parable of the Sadhu. Firestone and Ford on the Mountainside. Conclusion.

18. Recruiting Supportive Coaches: A Key to Achieving Positive Behavioral Change by Marshall Goldsmith.

Following Up with Your Coaches.

19. Global Leadership and Global Emotional Intelligence by Stephen H. Rhinesmith.

The Need for Global Leadership. The Need for Leaders with Global Mindsets and Skills. Global Emotional Intelligence. Developing Global Emotional Intelligence.

20. Is Your Organization Driven by Dynamic Leaders? by Larraine Segil.

First: The Alliance Issue. Second: the Leadership Issue. Commitment.

21. Effective Crisis Management: Now More Than Ever by Idalene Kesner.

What Is a Crisis? Crisis Prevention. Crisis Preparation and Crisis Response. Crisis Communications. Conclusion.

IV. CREATING COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE: STRATEGIES FOR SUCCESS.

22. Marketing Through Reconciliation: Global Brand, Local Touch by Fons Trompenaars and Peter Woolliams.
Universal or Particular? Individualism or Communitarianism? Specific or Diffuse? Neutral or Affective? Achievement or Ascription? Internal or External Control? Time: Sequential or Synchronic? Summary.

23. The Effective Use of Scenario Analysis to Support Research and Developmentby Peter Schwartz and Gerald Harris.

Introduction. Using Scenario Analysis to Guide R&D Planning. Conclusion.

24. Morphing Marketing: Dissolving Decisions by James M. Hulbert and Pierre Berthon.

From Material to Information. The Dissolution of Divisions. Morphing Marketing. Summary.

25. Creating Obnoxiously Devoted Customers by Chip R. Bell.

Seeing Through the Eye of the Beholder.

26. The Strategy of Bundling by Barry Nalebuff.

Conclusions.

V. TAKING THE LEAD: ORGANIZATIONS OF THE NEW MILLENNIUM.

27. Anatomy of an Innovation Machine: Cisco Systemsby Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble.

Introduction. Innovation Nomenclature. Why Study Cisco? The Evolution of Cisco's Use of Internet Technologies1. Unbundling Cisco's Innovation Machine. Learning from the Cisco Experience. Conclusion: So You Want to Be Like Cisco?

28. Achieving Best Fit by Judith M. Bardwick, Ph.D.

Stable and Borderless. Best Fit.

29. Strategy for the 21st Century: Portfolio Is Back by Maurice Saias and Olivier Tabatoni.

What Is Strategy Today? Where Are the Major Discontinuities? What Kinds of Strategic Responses? Conclusion.

30. Organizing for Strategic Flexibility by Homa Bahrami and Stuart Evan.

The Building Blocks. Designing a Versatile Federation.

31. Competitive Dynamics, Strategy, and Competence Development: The Rise of Value Confederations in Fast-Change Industries by David Lei.

Characteristics of the Emerging Value Confederation. Impact on Strategy Development and Growth Initiatives. Competing on the Cutting-Edge: Renewing Advantage via Learning.

32. New Measures of Prosperity by Thomas Monahan and Stephen A. Stumpf.

Defining and Measuring Economic Value. Toward Interdisciplinary and Integrated Measures. Learning and Unlearning: The Need for Both. Functional or Interdisciplinary: A Time for Change. Performance Measurement Programs for Today (the Future Is Too Late).

33. A World of Fleas and Elephants by Charles Handy.

The Characteristics of Creative Fleas. Can Elephants Harbor Fleas?

Index.

Excerpts

IntroductionNo book of collected works happens overnight. This one took a good two years of labor and then some. Perhaps the best way to provide you with an overview of its contents is to tell you a bit about its name. The subject of leadership is clearly multifaceted. The depth and breadth of the subject itself allows thought leaders everywhere to rethink it through their own lens. It is by adding a unique lens that the old becomes new--or at least worth exploring in new ways. In each chapter of this book you will see the distinct lens of its author, as each presents the cutting edge of his or her own subject matter.For most of the authors of this book, this was not a two-year project. Rather, it was the distillation of their thinking over a much more extended period of time. In some instances, the thinking shaped itself throughout their professional careers. The authors come from varied backgrounds. Some are academicians and have spent the bulk of their careers in business schools, colleges, or universities. Others have had long consulting careers and now direct their own firms. Still others gained their experience in private or public sector organizations. And many have done all three.Diverse as they are, they have several things in common. All have served as IMS faculty, and many still do. All have been leaders in organizations in one way or another. All believe that the education of managers in organizations is critical and that learning to be a good leader is a lifelong process.Here's what you'll find.Part I, "Forging Ahead: The Quest for Knowledge," suggests that the quest for learning and knowledge is key to great leadership and provides a variety of perspectives. Tony Buzan looks at learning in the context of improving techniques for management, and employs his Mind Mapping technique in "Intelligence on Intelligence and the Development of Intellectual Capital." Paul J. H. Schoemaker discusses a useful way to understand the barriers to internal change in "Organizational Renewal: Overcoming Mental Blind Spots." In "The Creativity and Commitment Connection" Amarjit Chopra focuses on the ability to create buy-in for new ideas and how to motivate people to implement better ways of interacting.William Ury shows us that eight out of ten decisions are not self-made--they are negotiated. He believes that "networks of negotiation" are taking their place in "The Negotiation Revolution." John J. Scherer suggests that chaos plays a vital role in birthing fundamental change and innovation in "The Role of Chaos in the Creation of Change." Russell L. Ackoff, in "Fundamentalism and Panaceas," describes his concept of how leaders look for simple solutions to serious problems.Part II, "Facilitating Change: The Leader's Role" provides insights to the vital role of the leader. In "Leadership in the Networked Economy" Albert A. Vicere describes four key roles necessary for effective leadership. In "The Organizational Change Leader" W. Warner Burke provides a phased system of viewing organizational change and the role of leadership within each phase. Joel R. DeLuca proposes a working model for development of successful leaders in "Entrepreneurial Leadership: Building Capacity for Speed, Risk, and Continuous Innovation."In "Leadership: Reflections and Learnings" Robert Terry shares a series of learning's that have challenged his own understanding and practice of leadership. Michael M. Lombardo and Robert W. Eichinger describe four kinds of experiences related to learned skills in the workplace in "Experience is Still the Best Teacher." In "Polarity Management: One Tool for Managing Complexity and Ambiguity" Barry Johnson illustrates the way in which leaders deal with dilemmas. Peter Koestenbaum consolidates insights about the structure of human existence in "Facing the Paradoxes of Leadership: Eight Rules." Charles E. Dwyer summarizes the essential elements in a successful a