The Many Facets of Leadership

In The Many Facets of Leadership, more than 40 top leadership experts share their insights on every aspect of leadership in the 21st century. This book brings together new ideas and techniques for leading change, promoting learning and innovation, handling complexity and crisis, overcoming blind spots, managing knowledge workers, coaching tomorrow's leaders, increasing value, retaining customers, and much more.

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.

What will it take to lead your organization into the future? "Simply" the ability to simultaneously promote speed, innovation, and non-stop learning; to handle unprecedented complexity and ambiguity; to inspire everyone around you; and to develop a new generation of leaders with the flexibility and emotional intelligence to go beyond where you leave off.

This book's team of world-class contributors delivers insight and guidance for addressing the challenges today's leaders face -- from organizational renewal to crisis management, strategy to coaching, metrics to maximizing value.

Contributors to this book include leading IMS faculty, such as Peter Koestenbaum, Paul Schoemaker, Charles Handy, Michael Lombardo, Randall White, James Hulbert, Judith Bardwick, Russell Ackoff, Robert Eichinger, and many others: a virtual "who's who" of leadership expertise and wisdom. Together, they have created a blueprint for 21st-century leadership.

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The Many Facets of Leadership features new essays on leading change, dealing with complexity and ambiguity, building learning organizations and promoting innovation from a broad cross-section of the world's most respected business thinkers and consultants. Each author offers a new approach to coaching and encouraging the next generation of dynamic leaders. Copyright (c) 2003 Soundview Executive Book Summaries

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 top-tier academic journals in the areas of strategy and organization. He has received numerous scholarly awards, including the Glueck Best Research Paper Award in Business Policy and Strategy from the Academy of Management. He consults with CEOs and senior executives in a variety of global corporations. He has been rated by BusinessWeek as a Top Ten Professor in Corporate Executive Education. He has been a keynote speaker in major conferences including the BusinessWeek CEO Forum and the Economist Conferences.

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 focused on leadership development and organizational effectiveness.