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Leadership is fundamentally different from management, but traditional leadership skills were based on an ill-fitting, management-oriented model. When leadership is recognized as a discrete professional specialty, new techniques and methods are needed to operationalize the new values-based theories. In addition to distinguishing leadership from management, this book distinguishes inner leadership, practiced by those in the middle ranks, from leadership as practiced by the CEO. Inner leadership is an applied complex of specialized knowledge, theory, skills, attitudes, and attributes used to make things happen in the lives and behavior of other community members.
The leader's goal is to cause followers to accept the leader's values-e.g., his or her standards of what are acceptable goals, behavior, and overall conduct-as their own. It is an intimate, personal, life-transforming task that resolves itself into a set of discrete techniques-sets of attitudes, actions, and intentions-that distinguish leaders from managers or other corporate workers. The special focus of the 21 leadership techniques presented here is on those unique methods of group interaction that characterize leadership activities in the middle of the corporation. These techniques represent a substantial body of inner leadership practice that differentiates leadership from all other group roles and functions.
List of contents
Acknowledgment
Preface
Introduction: A Brief Overview of the Theory of Leadership
A Brief Overview of Leadership
A Brief Overview of Values Leadership
A Brief Description of Inner Leadership
The Techniques of Inner Leader PreparationAuthentically Respecting Stakeholders
Maintaining a Relationship Focus
Learning to Help Followers
Fostering Follower Change and Transformation
Learning Followership
Taking an Horizon Perspective
The Techniques of ValuesOrchestrating Meaning in the Work Community
Emphasizing Values
Leaders Create a Higher Moral Standard
Servant Leadership
Celebrating Success
The Techniques of Inspiring Inner LeadershipBeing Inspiring
Persuading Others
Using Humor
The Techniques of Inner Leadership PowerUsing Power
Empowerment
Teaching and Coaching Stakeholders
Follower Self Governance
The Techniques of Trust LeadershipLearning to Trust Others
Creating Community
Developing Stewardship Structures
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Gilbert W. Fairholm
