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Book SynopsisLEADERS TODAY ARE GRAPPLING with complex choices, diverse customers and employees, and unprecedented uncertainty in the economic environment. Business models are becoming obsolete, cost and performance pressures are growing, regulatory requirements are changing, and trust in institutions is declining. Tackling these and other growing demands requires every leader to radically rethink what constitutes effective leadership.
Leading in Times of Crisis presents a new approach and concrete steps to compete in this complex, diverse, and uncertain marketplace. Drawing on compelling research and more than twenty interviews with CEOs and top-level executives, former executives and professors David Dotlich, Peter Cairo, and Stephen Rhinesmith highlight the growing urgency to evolve from a traditional, one-dimensional leadership model to what they term whole leadership. Whole leadership allows leaders to act in three ways that are important now but absolutely essential to thei
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'...provides insights and ideas that managers at every level and in every size of organization should ponder' . (Professional Manager, September 2009).
Table of Contents
Introduction 1
Part One The Challenge 5
1 Navigating the Perfect Storm: Complexity, Diversity, and Uncertainty 6
2 What You’re Up Against as a Leader Today 15
Part Two Nine Ways to Navigate the Perfect Storm Through Whole Leadership 29
Section One Navigating the Wave of Complexity 30
3 Destroy and Rebuild Your Business Model 31
4 Focus, Simplify, and Network Your Organization 45
5 Build a Climate for Innovation 59
Section Two Navigating the Wave of Diversity 74
6 Differentiate and Integrate Your Markets 76
7 Learn to Lead Everyone 90
8 Become Stakeholder Savvy 108
Section Three Navigating the Wave of Uncertainty 123
9 Redefine Risk and Uncertainty 125
10 Balance Conflicting Priorities 138
11 Be Clear What You Have the Courage to Stand For 154
Part Three Developing Whole Leaders and Teams 165
12 Aligning Your Company’s Talent to Navigate the Storm 166
13 Aligning Your Team Around Whole Leadership 179
14 Developing Yourself as a Whole Leader 190
15 Navigating the Perfect Storm: A Final Thought: Why Whole Leaders Will Succeed 200
Bibliography 211
Acknowledgments 217
About the Authors 219
Index 221
