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Real Leadership: Helping People and Organizations Face Their Toughest Challenges

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Real Leadership: Helping People and Organizations Face Their Toughest Challenges
Real Leadership: Helping People and Organizations Face Their Toughest Challenges

Leadership beyond vision; towards authentic organizational empowerment.

If you've ever felt uneasy with "top-down" leadership models, "Real Leadership" proposes a refreshing alternative. Dean Williams invites you to explore a more engaged style of leadership that harnesses the collective power of a group to tackle challenges head-on. It's not about being led by a singular vision, but about collaboratively facing reality to find effective solutions. Ideal for those interested in fostering genuine growth and self-reliance within teams and organizations.

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Real Leadership: Helping People and Organizations Face Their Toughest Challenges

by Dean Williams
RM32.00 MYR
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ISBN: 9781576753439
Authors: Dean Williams
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Date of Publication: 2005-10-16
Format: Hardcover
Related Collections: Business, Personal Development
Related Topics: Management, Personal Development, Leadership
Goodreads rating: 3.75
(rated by 52 readers)

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Too many organizations today play follow the leader, and people uncritically go along with it. This type of leadership—what Dean Williams calls "counterfeit leadership"—generates an unhealthy dependence on an authority figure and relies on dominance, control, and group seduction to get things done. By hampering people’s ability to anticipate and react to changing circumstances, it creates a self-limiting cycle. If the leader’s vision is flawed, the entire organization suffers. The true task of a leader, Williams argues, is to get people to face the reality of any situation themselves and develop strategies to deal with problems or take advantage of opportunities. Real leaders don’t dictate; they help people face their challenges and make adjustments in their values, habits, practices, and priorities to ensure the enterprise is given its best chance to succeed. Williams details how to apply this new approach to the challenges every organization or community faces. Throughout, he demonstrates the practical application of real leadership in the real world through examples from his own experiences working with organizations as diverse as the government of Singapore, Aetna Life and Casualty, and the nomadic Penan tribe in Borneo, as well as historical examples and the insights gleaned from his many interviews with presidents, prime ministers, and business leaders. At a time when so many “visionary” leaders have led their organizations to disaster, Real Leadership offers a needed, proven alternative
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Leadership beyond vision; towards authentic organizational empowerment.

If you've ever felt uneasy with "top-down" leadership models, "Real Leadership" proposes a refreshing alternative. Dean Williams invites you to explore a more engaged style of leadership that harnesses the collective power of a group to tackle challenges head-on. It's not about being led by a singular vision, but about collaboratively facing reality to find effective solutions. Ideal for those interested in fostering genuine growth and self-reliance within teams and organizations.

Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.