Leadership Jazz: The Essential Elements of a Great Leader - Revised Edition
Max De Pree





Format: Paperback, 208pp.
ISBN: 9780385526302
Publisher: Crown Business
Pub. Date: Revised Edition - November 4, 2008

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Description and Reviews
From The Publisher:

Since it was first published to wide acclaim in 1992, the bestselling Leadership Jazz has firmly placed itself among the great business classics. Former President Bill Clinton called it “astonishing,” and the late Peter Drucker advised, “Read this slowly. This book is wisdom in action.”

Now updated for first time in well over a decade, this powerful book reveals why today, more than ever, leadership is more an art than a science. Today’s best leaders, De Pree says, are attuned to the needs and ideas of their followers, and even step aside at times to be followers themselves. Filled with insightful stories from De Pree’s experience as the chairman of Herman Miller and from people he’s met along the way, Leadership Jazz reveals how to:

• Hold people accountable and give them space to reach their potential
• See the needs of employees and those of the company as the same
• Inspire change and innovation
• Work effectively with creative people

Complete with an extensive new introduction from De Pree on why his philosophy is more relevant now than ever before, Leadership Jazz gives you an entirely new way to look at the difficult job of leader.


About the Author

Max De Pree is chairman of the board of directors of Herman Miller, Inc., the primary innovator in the furniture business for sixty years and regularly included among the top twenty-five firms on Fortune's list of the the most admired companies in the United States. He is the author of the bestseller Leadership Is An Art. Ma DePree was recently elected by Fortune magazine to the National Business Hall of Fame.


Table of Contents

Prologue	1
Finding One's Voice	4
A Key Called Promise	16
What's Fragile?	33
God's Mix	50
Watercarriers	65
Ropes or Bathrooms	76
Leader's Leaders	93
Take Five	109
What Would Bucky Say?	115
Where Do Ethics and Leadership Intersect?	125
Give the Gift of Change	140
Delegate!	151
Polishing Gifts	167
Amateurs	185
Followership	197
Do Leaders Have a Future?	207
The Attributes of Leadership: A Checklist	218
Epilogue	227

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