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"Reframing Leadership translates Bolman & Deal's influential four-frame model of leadership and organizations developed in their bestselling Jossey-Bass Book, Reframing Organizations: Artistry, Choice and Leadership, (over 300,000 copies sold in 4 editions, $7M in net revenue) into a thought-provoking and practical guide for leaders in business and other organizations. This book will offer leaders a template and guide for understanding four major dimensions of organizational life: structure, people, politics, and symbols (or culture) that will enable them to decode the messy world in which they live, see a broader range of options, and find more powerful and elegant strategies for leading"--
List of contents
Preface vii
Acknowledgments ix
Part 1 Leadership in Four Dimensions 1
1 Introduction: The Power of Reframing 3
Part 2 Structural Leadership 21
2 Getting Organized 23
3 Organizing Groups and Teams 37
Part 3 Human Resource Leadership 49
4 Leading People 51
5 Seeing Ourselves as Others See Us 63
Part 4 Political Leadership 77
6 The Leader as Politician 79
7 The Leader as Warrior and Peacemaker 91
Part 5 Symbolic Leadership 105
8 The Leader as Magician 107
9 Seeking Soul in Teams 119
Part 6 Improving Leadership Practice 129
10 Reframing in Action 131
11 Images of Leadership: Can Crooked Kites Fly? 145
12 Leadership and Change 159
13 Searching for Soul: Leadership Ethics 175
14 Great Leaders, Great Stories 187
Appendix: Leadership Orientations 195
Notes 201
The Authors 213
Index 215
About the author
LEE G. BOLMAN holds the Marion Block Missouri Chair in Leadership at the Bloch School of Management, University of Missouri-Kansas City. With Terrence Deal, Bolman is coauthor of the bestselling book
Reframing Organizations, now in its 5th edition. For twenty years, Bolman taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
TERRENCE E. DEAL is the founder of the Deal Leadership Institute and has served on the faculties of Stanford, Harvard, Vanderbilt, and the University of Southern California. He is the author or coauthor of twenty-seven books, including the bestseller
Corporate Cultures, as well as numerous articles on organizations, change, and leadership.
Summary
The proven model that offers powerful and elegant strategies for leaders How Great Leaders Think: the Art of Reframing uses compelling, contemporary examples to show how more complex thinking is the key to better leadership.
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"...one of the best leadership books of the year. The pair blend anecdotes, cultural references and hard facts to stunning effect, even if their findings aren't always new" (People Management, October 2014)
"Whether you've been managing employees and setting a structure for your business for 20 years or 20 days, the simple, succinct explanations, illustrated with interesting and engaging examples, will help you get control of your business plan and allow you to forge ahead with a well-rounded, concise vision" (Talk Business, October 2014)
