Leadership Can Be Taught: A Bold Approach for a Complex World
Sharon Daloz Parks





Format: Hardcover, 256pp.
ISBN: 9781591393092
Publisher: Harvard Business School Press
Pub. Date: October 18, 2005

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Experience and Learn Ronald Heifetz's Dynamic Approach to Leadership

If leaders are made, not born, what is the best way to teach the skills they need to be effective? Today's complex times require a new kind of leadership-one that encompasses a mind-set and capabilities that can't necessarily be taught by conventional methods.

In this unique leadership book, Sharon Daloz Parks invites readers to step into the classroom of Harvard leadership virtuoso Ronald Heifetz and his colleagues to understand this dynamic type of leadership and experience a corresponding mode of learning called "case in point." Unlike traditional teaching approaches that analyze the experiences of past leaders, case-in-point uses individuals' own experiences-and the classroom environment itself-as a "crucible" for learning. This bold approach enables emerging leaders to actively work through the complex demands of today's workplace and build their skills as they discover theory in practice.

Through an engaging, you-are-there writing style, Parks outlines essential features of this approach that can be applied across a range of settings. In the process, Leadership Can Be Taught reveals how we can learn, practice, and teach the art of leadership in more skilled, effective, and inspired forms.


About the Author

Sharon Daloz Parks is Director of Leadership for the New Commons-an initiative of the Whidbey Institute in Clinton, WA. She has held faculty and research positions at the Harvard Divinity School, Harvard Business School, and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.


Table of Contents

	Foreword by Warren Bennis	ix
	Acknowledgments	xiii
1	Leadership for a Changing World A Call to Adaptive Work	1
2	How Do We Begin? Differing Expectations	19
3	What Is Really Going On Here? Engaging People at the Edge of Learning	45
4	Learning from Failure in Public The Power of Small Group Consultation	73
5	Listening to the Music Beneath the Words The Practice of Presence	99
6	What Endures? The Power of Language, Image and Metaphor	121
7	Courage and Costs Discovering How to Teach the Unteachable	147
8	The Same Approach—Other Teachers The Question of Transferability	169
9	Toward a More Adequate Myth The Art of Leadership	201
10	Leadership Can Be Learned Strengths and Limitations of This Approach	231
	Notes	257
	Index	271
	About the Author	287

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