Did you hear your inner Giant wake up this weekend?
The class of 2008-2009 is amazing! KUDOS for your brilliant thinking, analysis of theory, organizational skills, people connections and honest dialogue.
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As promised, follow up links and good lead reads:
1. About being fearless, new thinking about leadership by Margaret Wheatley, go to:
http://www.margaretwheatley.com/writing.html
2. About Servant Leadership, by Tom Peters, go to:
3. Need the first Chapter of The 7 Strategies of Master Leaders, our other text? Send an email to Clara. We cannot attach to XOWhat because of copyrights.
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- Maggie
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1 comment:
From Stewart Kallio
Covey, S. (2004). The 8th habit: From effectiveness to greatness. New York: Simon & Schuster.
Like who needs another habit but Covey makes a really important point. His main premise (8th habit) is that leaders find their own voice and then help others find theirs
Gronn, P. (2003, August). Leadership: who needs it? School Leadership & Management, 23, 267-290.
Gronn asks a too-often overlooked question rooted in the presumption that what we do as leaders and what say about leadership is leadership at all. He’s Australian, so he really questions the American, social science, quantitative approach to the science of leadership (i.e., all we have to do is dissect into itty-bitty bits to figure out how it ‘works’ so we can do it better by controlling the mechanisms of leadership.
I remain to be convinced – but then I’m a yellow…
Kouzes, M. K., & Posner, B. Z. (1995). The leadership challenge. How to keep getting extraordinary things done in organizations. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
This is a classic that introduced a leadership model that included celebration. In other words, we can vision, communicate, model, and do all the leadership stuff but we have to take time to celebrate out successes, too. (no problem with this LTB group, eh!)
Kvale, S. (1996). InterViews. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage
One of the best books I’ve read about interviewing in all the senses of that word. Researchers, counselors, anyone who engages in meaningful and explorative conversation with others will find this of value. I read it during a train ride from Toronto to Sudbury (i.e., an easy straightforward read that you’ll want to highlight throughout). It has relevance to our martini metaphor regarding open/closed questioning.
Northouse, P. (2004). Leadership theory and practice. Thousand Oaks: Sage
Good overview of leadership theory often used as a textbook
Sparrowe, R. T. (2005). Authentic leadership and the narrative self. The Leadership Quarterly, 16, 419-439.
This discusses a recent theme in leadership. It speaks to the idea that leading others starts with leading yourself. The whole notion of being an authentic human being in order to lead makes sense to me. Others are less likely to engage with someone who is hard to ‘read’, who is not well centred. The authentic self is difficult to articulate in any scientific way, but it presents well in our stories and metaphors.
Wheatley, M. (1992). Leadership and the new science: Learning about organizations from an organized universe. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler.
Wheatley, M. & Kellner-Rogers, M. (1996). A simpler way. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler.
Wheatley, M. (2005). Finding our way: Leadership for uncertain times. San Francisco: Berrett-Koehler.
I suggest starting with Leadership and the New Science as it sets out Wheatley’s core position. She writes beautifully.
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