Creating Leaderful Organizations

Informationen zum Autor Joseph A. Raelin is the Asa Knowles Chair at Northeastern University. He is also a management consultant with more than twenty-five years of experience working with a wide variety of organizational clients. Most recently, he has sponsored a set of unique executive development series that promote leaderful practice by using work-based learning methods. Klappentext Leadership has traditionally resided in one person with many followers. This book presents a new model of mutual leadership! which transforms leadership from one individual's responsibility into a new way of working for everyone. The Tenets of Leaderful Practice What Is “Leaderful Practice”? I would like to introduce you to an alternative paradigm of leadership: “leaderful practice.” It directly challenges the conventional view of leadership as “being out in front.” In the twenty-first-century organization, we need to establish communities where everyone shares the experience of serving as a leader, not serially, but concurrently and collectively. Leaderful practice is unique compared to empowerment models that have become popular in recent years in that it does not merely present a consultative model wherein leaders in authority allow “followers” to participate in their leadership. Nor does it equate to stewardship approaches that see the leader step aside to allow others to take over when necessary. Instead, it offers a true mutual model that transforms leadership from an individual property into a new paradigm that redefines leadership as a collective practice. It may seem somewhat ambitious to suggest that a book can produce an entirely new paradigm, but the recharacterization of leadership that I suggest is hardly a revolution. The subject in question is already in motion and, thus, has but to be brought into popular consciousness. In fact, although I had assumed that I had invented a new word—leaderful—I subsequently discovered that such authors as Robert Kenny, Jessica Lipnack, Charlotte Roberts, and Margaret Wheatley, as well as many other leadership consultants, had already made many references to it. So, I am now convinced that when all of us in the working world fully reflect upon the metaphor of “being leaderful,” we will collaborate in this endeavor of transforming leadership practice as we know it. The chaotic world of corporate affairs especially requires leadership that diverges from age-old conceptions of leading by control. The only possible way to lead our way out of trouble in management is to become mutual and to share our leadership. What Is Leadership? Before we get ahead of ourselves, I need to first provide a depiction of what leadership itself represents. Once we have a sense of what it is, we will have a base of operations to determine whether leaderful practice can accomplish leadership as effectively, or more effectively (as I contend), than conventional leadership practice. In other words, as we encounter the new ideas and behaviors of leaderful practice, however novel or inventive they may appear, we need to assess whether they nevertheless continue to accomplish the enterprise of leadership. A good place to start is to review four critical processes that are mobilized by leadership. The model depicted in figure 1-11 is iterative, so I could start my explanation anywhere, but for the sake of clarity, let’s begin with setting the mission. 1. Leadership is concerned with setting the mission or direction of an enterprise. At some point, whether in the beginning of an activity or as it evolves, the community needs to know where it is going. 2. Accompanying the mission is the need to actualize the goals of the enterprise. A host of activities and tasks need to be accomplished to get the work done. 3. There is also a need to sustain the commitment and cohesiveness of the working unit. Community members want to ...

Table des matières

Tables and Figures
Preface
Acknowledgments

Part 1: Presenting a New Paradigm for Leadership: Leaderful Practice
1. The Tenets of Leaderful Practice
2. The Distinctiveness of Leaderful Practice
3. The Challenge of Leaderful Practice
4. The Development of Leaderful Practice
5. The Benefits of Leaderful Practice

Part 2: Uncovering the Traditions of Leaderful Practice
6. Concurrent Leadership
7. Collective Leadership
8. Collaborative Leadership
9. Compassionate Leadership
10. Getting Started on Your Leaderful Quest
Notes
Name Index
Subject Index
About the Author

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Raelin, Joseph Raelin, Joseph A Raelin, Joseph A. Raelin
• Edition: Berrett Koehler Publishers
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Broché
• Sortie: 15.02.2003
• EAN: 9781576752333
• ISBN: 978-1-57675-233-3
• Pages: 312
• Dimensions: 150 mm x 230 mm x 21 mm
• Thème: UK Professional Business Management / Business
• Catégorie: Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Economie