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The Spirit of Leadership

Uncovering the Leader in Each of Us

OWEN

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English
Berrett-Koehler
01 January 2018
The business world is desperate for leaders. Books and courses on leadership flood the market as companies search in vain for that one person who can make sense of their rapidly changing environment through assertiveness, charisma, and control. According to noted consultant Harrison Owen, our inability to locate such a person isn't the fault of our leaders, it's the fault of our expectations. In today's world where chaos is normal and paradoxes can't be resolved, such old-style leaders no longer offer the solution. Today's world requires inspired leadership from all levels of the organization. Inspired leadership literally means in-spirited leadership, and this book explores the intimate connection between spirit and leadership it implies. It presents the radical notion that spirit is the most important ingredient of any organization and that leadership means opening space for that spirit to show up in powerful and productive ways. The Spirit of Leadership lays out the New Rules of Leadership, rules which surprisingly turnOl organizations have always played by. For the keys to these new rules, the book turns to those who have always successfully operated apart from the levers of formal power and authority-women. Offering lessons from effective female strategies, it reveals the true functions of leadership- to evoke, grow, sustain, comfort, and raise the spirit. Not to be confused with morale building, motivational techniques, or even the current fad of spirituality in business, The Spirit of Leadership digs deeper to show that, at its essence, leadership is our link to deep inner forces. It provides practical steps readers can use to uncover their own capacity for leadership in whatever position they find themselves, and to exercise that capacity both to enhance the performance of their organizations and to find their own fulfillment as complete human beings.
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Imprint:   Berrett-Koehler
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 90mm,  Width: 60mm,  Spine: 4mm
Weight:   1g
ISBN:   9781576750568
ISBN 10:   1576750566
Pages:   168
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Harrison Owen is president of H. H. Owen and Company. His academic background and training centered on the nature and function of myth, ritual, and culture. In the mid 1960s, he left academe to work with a variety of organizations, including small West African villages, urban community organizations (both in the United States and in Africa), the Peace Corps, regional medical programs, the U.S. National Institutes of Health, and the U.S. Veterans Administration. Along the way, he discovered that his study of myth, ritual, and culture had direct application to these social systems. In 1977, he created H. H. Owen and Company in order to explore the culture of organizations in transformation as a theorist and practicing consultant. Harrison Owen convened the First International Symposium on Organization Transformation and is the originator of Open Space Technology. He is the author of Spirit- Transformation and Development in Organization; Riding the Tiger; Open Space Technology- A User's Guide; The Millennium Organization; and Tales from Open Space.

Reviews for The Spirit of Leadership: Uncovering the Leader in Each of Us

From the originator of open-space technology, this is a consideration of the new rules of leadership to help everyone in the organisation reach their true potential. Owen claims that in today's chaotic world we need inspired leadership at all levels in a company and presents alternatives to the stress, burnout and demoralisation that are so common in the workplace. He offers practical steps for uncovering your own capacity for leadership and exercising that skill to enhance your own performance as well as that of your organisation. (Kirkus UK)


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