The Leader of the Future - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0787901806 ISBN 13: 9780787901806

Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 1996

Synopsis

Leading-Edge Thought From the World's Best Business Minds "A one-stop shopping guide that shows how leaders can be successful in the year 2000 and beyond."
--American Society for Training and Development

Discover what Stephen Covey, Ken Blanchard, Peter Senge, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, and other business-world luminaries have to say about the direction of leadership for the future. The Drucker Foundation brings together the best business minds in more than 30 never-before-published essays, each one offering a special perspective on leadership and a unique glimpse into the future.

About this title

From the Author:

The Leader of the Future

For over twenty years, I’ve worked with organizations of all kinds as a leadership development consultant and executive coach. Throughout this time, I’ve realized that it doesn’t matter what kind of organization you work in; you will find opportunities to learn about leadership from all organizations--public, private, and nonprofit.

In The Leader of the Future, my co-editors, Frances Hesselbein and Dick Beckhard, and I have gathered together acclaimed authors who offer their unique perspectives on leadership. These authors demonstrate how leaders emerge from within organizations, how leadership roles are defined, and how leaders inspire hope and purpose. Peter Drucker begins the book by breaking the myth that only a lucky few can decipher the leadership code by pointing out and explaining two interesting aspects of leadership: first, that leadership must and can be learned; and second, that there isn’t one specific style, trait, or personality that determines successful leadership.

The Leader of the Future is a book about the future quality of our lives, our businesses, our organizations, and our society, and the leadership required to move us into the exciting unknown. In it, we’ve gathered the best ideas of the best authors, practitioners, consultants, academics, and philosophers to help today’s executives and managers fathom the future of leadership.

--Marshall Goldsmith

From the Inside Flap:

The Leader of the Future is a compendium of new thought. It is a book about the future quality of our lives, our businesses, our organizations, our society?and the leadership required to move us into the exciting unknown. This book demonstrates:How leaders emerge, indepAndent of official rank or status, from within organizations that nurture dispersed authorityHow leadership roles are defined for those willing to assume responsibility for fostering change though ?leading the learning organization?How leaders motivate by turning the organizational pyramid upside downHow partnering has become a primary skill of the world-class leaderHow to break the myth that only a lucky few can ever decipher the leadership codeHow the leader of the next millennium will create a culture based on principles ? all within a turbulent worldHow to inspire hope and purpose in those who want direction and wish to contributeAll the authors define their own scenarios, as different and compelling as their individual records of success?and each powerfully relevant to the future of business, government, and the nonprofit sectors.

About this edition

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0787901806
• ISBN 13: 9780787901806
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 321
• Editor: Hesselbein Frances, Goldsmith Marshall, Beckhard Richard