Leadership Beyond Reason: How Great Leaders Succeed by Harnessing the Power of Their Values, Feelings, and Intuition
Dr. John Townsend
Format: Hardcover, 224pp.
ISBN: 9780785228776
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date: April 7, 2009
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From The Publisher:
A human behavior expert reveals that what leaders know about themselves is more important than their leadership skills and job knowledge.
Who we are on the inside can determine leadership success more than what we do or what we know. In Leadership Beyond Reason, Dr. Townsend explores the critical role of the leader's internal world, the world of passion, emotions, intuition, creativity, values, self-awareness, conscience, and spiritual life. Unveiling links between personal and organizational success or failure and the contents of a leader's "heart," the author shows that leaders excel not just through skill and smarts but by connecting with others using competencies, like curiosity, attention, reality assessment, distortion detecting, relationship building, ownership, and living with ambiguity. This is the leadership book only a world-respected psychologist could have written, and it is revolutionary in its insight.

About the Author
Dr. John Townsend is a psychologist, popular speaker, and the best-selling author and co-author of numerous books, including the Gold Medallion Award-winning Boundaries and God Will Make a Way. He is co-host of the nationally syndicated New Life Live! daily radio programme. He holds a doctoral degree in clinical psychology from Rosemead Graduate School of Psychology at Biola University.

Table of Contents
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| Acknowledgments | ix |
| Introduction | xi |
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| 1 | Values The Bedrock of Leadership | 1 |
| 2 | Thoughts Leaders Think About Thinking | 23 |
| 3 | Emotions The Unlikely Allies in Leadership | 57 |
| 4 | Relationships Connecting with Those You Lead | 105 |
| 5 | Transformation Growing as a Leader | 143 |
| Conclusion | 171 |
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| Notes | 175 |
| About the Author | 179 |

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