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Book SynopsisIs your leadership a competitive advantage, or is it costing you? How do you know? Are you developing your leadership effectiveness at the pace of change? For most leaders today, complexity is outpacing their personal and collective development. Most leaders are in over their heads, whether they know it or not.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgements xi
Introduction A Universal Model of Leadership and The Leadership Circle Profile Assessment xv
How This Book Came to Be 2
A Better Model of Leadership 2
The Promise of This Book 2
Two Books in One 2
Take the LCP Self-Assessment 2
Going Full Circle 2
Chapter 1 The Promise of Leadership: Meeting the High Bar of Expectations 1
High Bar of Experience and Expectations 2
Leadership Matters 2
Four Universal Promises of Leadership 4
Broken Leadership Promises 9
Keeping the Promise 9
The Leadership Agenda 10
Chapter 2 Leadership Effectiveness and Business Performance: The Primary Competitive Advantage 13
What the Research Shows 13
What is Your Leadership Quotient? 17
Provocative Questions 18
Collective Effectiveness 19
Collective Effectiveness and Intelligence 22
Chapter 3 Mastery and Maturity, Consciousness and Complexity: The Leadership Development Agenda 27
Triumph and Failure of the Inner Game 28
Competency is Only Half the Game 29
Two Games of Leadership 29
Inner Game Runs the Outer Game 31
Litany of the Literature 33
Four Foundational Premises 35
Consciousness and Complexity 38
Understanding Complexity: Redundant Polarities and Problems 40
Non-Obvious Points of Leverage 41
The Leadership Imperative 42
The Core Argument 43
Uncommon Sense 44
Collective Wisdom 45
A Global Leadership Imperative 46
Chapter 4 Stages of Development: The Backbone of the Universal Model of Leadership 47
Stages of Development Framework 48
The Universal Model of Leadership 49
Correlation Conclusions 53
Trajectory of Life-Long Development 55
Childhood: Seeing Development the Easy Way 56
Identity is at the Core 58
Chapter 5 Five Levels of Leadership: Structures of Mind and Performance 61
Egocentric Leadership 63
Reactive Leadership 66
Creative Leadership 75
Integral Leadership 82
Unitive Leadership 85
Chapter 6 The Universal Model and Metrics: Global Leadership, Cross-Cultural, and Gender Application 87
Task and Relationship—Horizontal Axis 87
A Dynamic Model 89
Optimal Leadership 90
Link to Performance and Effectiveness 92
Dynamic Polarities 96
Universality of the Model 99
Case in Point: Cross-Cultural Application in Rural Uganda 102
Gender and the Universal Model 104
Stage of Development Research 106
Conclusions and Implications 112
Chapter 7 The Leadership System: The Central Organizing System 115
Six Systems of Organizational Effectiveness 116
Whole Systems Approach to Developing Leadership 120
Four Compelling Case Studies 122
Owning Development from the Top 151
Chapter 8 Reactive Leadership: An Insufficient Triumph of Development 155
Performance Review 156
Leave Your Ego at the Door 156
I Dare You to Tell Me the Truth 156
Two Primary Movements 160
Structure of Reactive Mind 169
Core Operating Beliefs 176
Putting It All Together 179
The Leadership Agenda 180
Chapter 9 Reactive Leadership at Work: From Patriarchy to Partnership 183
Moving from Patriarchy to Partnership 183
Navigating Two Journeys 185
Three Core Reactive Types 186
Gifts of Each Type 189
Gifts Hung on a Reactive Structure 191
Reactive Dynamics—True to Type 194
Reactive Type Dynamics in the Universal Model 198
Natural Selection Process—Creating Collective Patterns of Patriarchy 200
Chapter 10 Creative Leadership: Fulfilling the Promise of Leadership 205
Performance Review 205
The Hero’s Journey 207
What the Transition Looks Like 209
Talking About It Without Knowing It 211
Creative Structure 213
Creative Structure of Identity 216
Restructuring Identity Beliefs 216
Designed for Leading Change 220
Creative Mind and Performance 221
Alignment 223
Path of Development—Move Toward Your Near Enemy 224
Type Through Stage 229
Creative Organizations 229
Integration 230
Literacy in the Pathways of Transformation 231
Two Currents of Transformation 232
Chapter 11 Six Leadership Practices: Spiritual Boot Camp for Leaders 239
Practice 1: Discerning Purpose 239
Practice 2: Distilling Vision 245
Practice 3: Knowing Your Doubts and Fears 248
Practice 4: Engage in Authentic, Courageous Dialogue 252
Practice 5: Develop Intuition, Open to Inspiration 255
Practice 6: Think Systemically 259
Path of Mastering Leadership 262
Chapter 12 Integral Leadership: Built for Complexity, Designed for Transformation 265
Brief Summary of Stages 267
Servant of the System 268
Maturing Intuition 268
Seeing the Entire Development Spectrum 269
Holding Unresolvedness, Conflict, and Tension 270
As Within, So Without 271
A Meeting of Twin Opposites 272
Have You Ever Once Asked Me What I Want? 272
Shadow Side of the Universal Model 274
Fierce Compassion, The Dance of Enemies 286
Why is Change so Difficult? 291
Integral Leadership Imperative 292
Chapter 13 Unity: Journey’s End, Development Turned Upside Down 295
Waves on the Ocean 296
No Self, All God 297
Development Turned Upside Down 299
Two Arguments for Development 300
Not Me, Not Me 300
Unity Leadership 301
Appendix 1 Leadership Circle Profile Summary Dimensions 303
Appendix 2 Theorists Integrated into The Leadership Circle Universal Model of Leadership 309
References 315
Index 000
