The Leader of the Future : New Visions, Strategies, and Practices for the Next Era
Frances Hesselbein, Marshall Goldsmith and Richard Beckhard - Editors





Format: Hardcover, 352pp.
ISBN: 9780787901806
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Pub. Date: January 2, 1996

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Description and Reviews
From The Publisher:

The Leader of the Future is a compendium of new thought. It is a book about the future quality of our lives, our businesses, our organizations, our society - and the leadership required to move us into the exciting unknown. Each of the acclaimed authors offers a special perspective on leadership, a unique glimpse into the future, and together their thinking forms a treasure trove of insight and knowledge. All essays were written especially for this book, providing even the most astute reader with new insights and directions crucial to becoming an effective leader in the organization of tomorrow.

The Leader of the Future offers cutting-edge essays that directly address the future quality of businesses, organizations, and communities—and the leadership required not just to survive, but to thrive. Acclaimed authors, world-renowned consultants, and respected executives present their special perspectives on leadership and a compelling glimpse into the future.

This best-selling collection demonstrates:

• How leaders motivate by turning the organizational pyramid upside down
• How partnering has become a primary skill of world-class leaders
• How leaders of the next millennium can create an organizational culture based on principles
• How leaders emerge—independent of official rank or status—from organizations that nurture dispersed authority
• How to inspire hope and purpose in those who want direction and wish to contribute

Peter F. Drucker, Charles Handy, Sally Helgesen, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Stephen R. Covey, and many other great thinkers share their visions of tomorrow's leader—as different and commanding as their individual records of success—and each powerfully relevant to the future of business, government, and the nonprofit sector.


About the Editors 
Frances Hesselbein is chairman of the board of governors of the Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management in New York City, where she lives. Marshall Goldsmith is a consultant to Fortune 500 corporations. He lives in San Diego, California. Richard Beckhard is an organizational development consultant. He lives in New York City.


Table of Contents

	Foreword
	Preface
1	The New Language of Organizing and Its Implications for Leaders	3
2	Leading the De-Jobbed Organization	11
3	Leading from the Grass Roots	19
4	Creating Organizations with Many Leaders	25
5	Leading Learning Organizations: The Bold, the Powerful, and the Invisible	41
6	Leadership and Organizational Culture	59
7	Leading a Diverse Work Force	71
8	Turning the Organizational Pyramid Upside Down	81
9	World-Class Leaders: The Power of Partnering	89
10	Seven Lessons for Leading the Voyage to the Future	99
11	Leaders Who Shape and Keep Performance-Oriented Culture	111
12	The "How to Be" Leader	121
13	On Future Leaders	125
14	Peacetime Management and Wartime Leadership	131
15	A Recipe for Glue	141
16	Three Roles of the Leader in the New Paradigm	149
17	Developing Three-Dimensional Leaders	161
18	New Skills for New Leadership Roles	175
19	The Ultimate Leadership Task: Self-Leadership	189
20	The Following Part of Leading	199
21	Credibility x Capability	209
22	Learning from Past Leaders	221
23	Ask, Learn, Follow Up, and Grow	227
24	The Leader Who Serves	241
25	A Constitutional Model of Leadership
26	Either/Or Yields to the Theory of Both	257
27	Key Leadership Challenges for Present and Future Executives	265
28	Energy and Leadership	273
29	The Puzzles of Leadership	281
30	An "Outsider's" View of Leadership	293
31	Growing Tomorrow's Leaders	303
	Index	311

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