On Mission and Leadership: A Leader to Leader Guide,9780787960681

On Mission and Leadership: A Leader to Leader Guide

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780787960681
ISBN10: 0787960683
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2002-03-01
Publisher(s): Jossey-Bass
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Summary

On Mission and Leadership features the best thinking from top experts on inspired leadership, vision, and mission-focused management. Written in a concise style that is ideal for the busy executive with little spare time, the book presents a stellar roster of contributors. On Mission and Leadership is one title in the Leader to Leader Guides, which draw from the most compelling articles that have appeared in Leader to Leader, the Drucker Foundation's award-winning journal.

Author Biography

<B>Frances Hesselbein </B>is chairman of the board of governors of the Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management and editor-in-chief of its journal <I>Leader to Leader. </I>She is also the lead editor for the best-selling <I>Drucker Foundation Future Series</I>. Hesselbein served as CEO of the Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. from 1976 to 1990 and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States' highest civilian honor, in 1998. <P> <B>Rob Johnston</B> is president and CEO of the Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management. He was executive producer for <I>Leading in a Time of Change,</I> a 2001 video featuring Peter F. Drucker and Peter M. Senge and for the Nonprofit Leader of the Future video teleconference. He is a senior editor for the <I>Leader to Leader</I> journal, and has contributed a chapter to Enterprising Nonprofits (Wiley, 2001). <P>

Table of Contents

Introduction.
About the Editors.
1. Speaking a Common Language (Frances Hesselbein).
2. The Leadership Advantage (Warren Bennis).
3. Leader as Social Advocate: Building the Business by Building Community (An Interview with Anita Roddick).
4. The Emotional Intelligence of Leaders (Daniel Goleman).
5. The Trouble with Humility (Patrick Lencioni).
6. Mission as an Organizing Principle (C. William Pollard).
7. The Art of Chaordic Leadership (Dee Hock).
8. Managing Quietly (Henry Mintzberg).
9. Maintaining a Mission: Lessons from the Marketplace (David M. Lawrence).
10. Closing the Strategic Generation Gap (A Conversation with Christopher Bartlett).
11. Building Your Leadership Brand (Dave Ulrich, Norm Smallwood, and Jack Zenger).
12. Why Vision Matters (Robert Knowling).
Index

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