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Book SynopsisAs revealed in the most recent global survey of human capital trends conducted by Deloitte University, leadership is rated as the top priority across all organizational levels, geographies, and functional areas in every industry. The evolving shift in leadership from individual leaders at the top to collective leadership throughout organizations requires creating and sustaining the necessary conditions through which leaders and those being led can flourish and positive organizing can thrive. Developing Leaders for Positive Organizing examines this challenge by taking the reader on an investigative journey into everyday leadership as framed in the increasingly interconnected context of human relationships within and across organizations around the globe. This book offers broad appeal for the novice working practitioner; corporate, not-for-profit, or non-profit executive; experienced scholar or academic student.
Trade ReviewWritten by business scholars and others from around the world, the 24 chapters presented here explore aspects that create positive conditions to help expand the individual, relational, and collective repertoire of leadership in organizations: an emergent mindset, courage, forgiveness, mental fitness, positive energy, and human values. Each section contains a chapter on the topic, followed by case studies of individuals like Bruno Cucinelli and Yahya Khan; organizations like Starbucks, Ella’s Kitchen, and KKT; and settings like South Africa, a yoga class, a grammar school, and universities. -- Annotation ©2017 Ringgold Inc. * (protoview.com) *
Developing leaders for positive organizing in the 21st century is a daunting task given the transient times in which we live. Modernity is exciting, transformation challenging, and the human factor compoundingly more complex. Whether mere mortals are leading nations, corporates, government departments, church congregations, or small businesses, they must be cognizant of discerning consumers, ever-changing technology, and market and societal conditions which will test conventions. Adaptation is required to flourish and survive.
The compendium of chapters and assembled articles in this remarkable publication address these issues and subjects comprehensively, and even with an element of entertainment. Serious research is interspersed with compelling case material, and emotional experiential subjectivity is evidence of fresh author reflexivity. The organizing context presented here is one calling for exceptional attributes and skills. The ability to recognize and integrate the constituent ingredients for organizational flow are interwoven through most of the chapters as organizational order, symbiosis, behavioural harmony, and inter-connectivity. As Louis A. Allen initiated decades ago, the challenge remains one of making it happen with economy and harmony. The question begs whether it is trainable, or merely shaped, provided the fundamental substance naturally exists? Many useful perspectives are proffered throughout. * Johann Coetzee, Professor Emeritus, North-West University South Africa *
Table of ContentsSECTION I: EMERGENT MINDSET 1. The Emergent Nature of Positive (and Negative) Organizing: Why Mindset Matters;
Rob Koonce2. Brunello Cucinelli: An Inspired Leader Who Helps Employees To Have It All;
Marcello Russo 3. Fostering an Emergent Mindset in Leaders: The Role of Caring in A Leadership Development Case;
Jessica Nicholson and Elizabeth C. Kurucz 4. Building Positive Collective Mindsets with the "what-we-are-best-at" Group Intervention;
Marsha M. Huber, Shirine L. Mafi and Wei Wang SECTION II: COURAGE 5. Courage;
Arthur Schwartz 6. It Takes Courage: Lessons Learned from Starbucks #RaceTogether Campaign Case Study;
Courtney L. McCluney, Laura Morgan Roberts and Lynn Perry Wooten 7. Personal Risk for Social Good: Yahya's Courageous Career and Leadership Decisions;
Farah Yasmine Shakir, Petra Kipfelsberger, Anneloes M.L. Raes and Yih-Teen Lee SECTION III: FORGIVENESS 8. Forgiveness;
Steven L. Smith 9. Leadership in Multicultural Environments: A Courageous Case of Forgiveness for South Africa;
Adri Drotskie and Rica Viljoen 10. Forgiveness: On The Journey to Reconciliation;
Linda Pallone 11. Fostering Forgiveness in a Conflict-Affected Country;
Susan Ryan SECTION IV: MENTAL FITNESS 12. Leading with Mental Fitness;
Paula Robinson 13. Mental Health in the Workplace: A Case Study for Collective Responsibility;
Jacqueline H. Stephenson 14. Developing Restful Awareness: Lessons in Energizing Individuals and Teams from the Micro-practices of a Yoga Class;
Anne Messervy 15. Mental Fitness at Knox Grammar School;
Steve Zolezzi 16. The Introduction of Well-Being into the Curriculum of an Executive MBA Program: The Sydney Business School a Reflective Case Study;
Dr. Lee E. J. Styger and Lauren Richardson SECTION V: POSITIVE ENERGY 17. Experiencing Human Energy as a Catalyst for Developing Leadership Capacity;
Bernd Vogel 18. Ella's Kitchen: Strategic Positive Leadership with Purpose and Value-Driven Collective Energy;
Amal Ahmadi and Bernd Vogel 19. Transforming Negative Energy Into Positive Energy Through Intercultural Communication Exercises;
Daniel Velasco 20. Igniting Leadership: Ritual and Interaction within the AI Summit;
Janis Bragan Balda, Mary Saunders Bulan, and William DesJenniferis SECTION VI: HUMAN VALUES 21. Navigating the Terrain of Positive Organizing: An Engagement with Values;
Ken Otter 22. Putting Values to Work at KKT: Nourishment for a Positive Leadership Culture;
Ken Otter, Tone S. Ringstad and Sigbjørn Smeland 23. Words for Worlds: Developing Leaders through Values and Narrative Processes at the University of Alberta;
Victor Shewchuk, Christine Cavanaugh Simmons and Marcy Strong 24. "This Above All: To Thine Own Self Be True";
Emma Watton and Scott Lichtenstein
