In Search of Leaders

If you are fed-up with the rot that is consuming most organizations and you want to find a truly inspirational way of developing yourself (or those within your organization) In Search of Leaders will help you escape. If you freeze water it becomes ice. Yet, when melting it reverts to water. This is change. If you burn a stick of wood, it becomes ashes. It can never become wood again. This is transformation. Learn how to transform yourself, rather than simply change. Follow the journey on which Hilarie Owen takes you, a journey that will allow you to discover your potential as a great leader in your own sphere of ambition and beyond. 'Illustrates brilliantly the importance of understanding the human essence of leadership.' Warren Bennis, Distinguished Professor of Business Administration, University of Southern California and Visiting Professor of Leadership, University of Exeter. Author of On Becoming a Leader and Organizing Genius.Wenn Wasser gefriert, wird es zu Eis. Wenn man Eis auftaut, wird es wieder zu Wasser. Das ist Veränderung.
Wenn man ein Stück Holz verbrennt, wird es zu Asche. Aus Asche wird aber nie wieder Holz. Das ist Umwandlung.
Hilarie Owen, Autorin von "Creating Top Flight Teams", hat ein neues, inspirierendes Buch geschrieben, das den Begriff der Unternehmensführung komplett auf den Kopf stellt. Sie nimmt den Leser mit auf eine phantasievolle Reise in die Welt der Führungsqualitäten und demonstriert dabei, daß echte Führungkräfte nicht an der Unternehmensspitze sitzen und sich auf ihren Lorbeeren ausruhen. Jeder trägt Führungsqualitäten in sich, und indem er sie erkennt, kann er im Rahmen seiner Möglichkeiten eine Führungskraft werden. "In Search of Leaders" ist eine unverzichtbare Lektüre für jeden, der die Zeitverschwendung für Unwichtiges im Unternehmen leid ist. Zur Veranschaulichung dienen zahlreiche Beispiele aus der Praxis; die bereitgestellten Methoden und Hilfsmittel motivieren den Leser, seine Möglichkeiten voll auszuschöpfen. The Story of Leadership.

The Seven Essences of Leadership.

The Transcendent Circle.

The Translatory Circle.

The Transformational Circle.

The Search Continues.

The Institute of Leadership.

References.

Index.

"This book is thought provoking and challenging, and has a good reference section for further reading against each chapter. It got better and better as I read on, and is highly recommended to readers." (Training Journal, September 2000)

Hilarie Owen's career began in the field of marketing with IBM and another blue chip company. She spent a year with the Government's Department of Trade and Industry launching The Enterprise Initiative. Broadening her career to Management Consultancy she eventually took the plunge to set up her own consultancy at the beginning of 1991 working with organizations in the private and public sectors. Following the success of her book Creating Top Flight Teams, she has worked world wide developing first class teams. Hilarie has spoken at conferences around the world, lectured at Cranfield Business School and advised the Department of Education and Employment. The Institute of Leadership is an initiative set up by Hilarie Owen and a small team of experienced individuals. It is a non-profit-making global network to research and develop the whole concept of leadership everywhere. The concept of leadership is turned on its head in this book. Hilarie Owen demonstrates that leadership is not just for those who have achieved positions at the top of their organization. There is leadership potential in everyone. The question is, how do you release that untapped reservoir of potential? Or, more accurately, how do you transform the reluctant individuals who do not believe they have the raw material to be leaders within their chosen environment. In Search of Leaders provides the answers. Hilarie Owen has created a three stage model that will take you on a journey of discovery about yourself, about the world in which you have to operate, and about how you can face the challenges in your own sphere of experience. The odyssey In Search of Leaders takes you right back to the Ancient Greeks, through the Industrial Revolution, and on to see glimpses of how the future could be. With a mix of storytelling, allusion and references drawn from the great philosophers, scientists, poets and management thinkers over the centuries, this book is truly enlightening and inspirational. From Plato to Star Wars, and from Blake to Mandela, Hilarie Owen's commentary on leadership is as expansive as it is insightful. Her wide-ranging discussion reflects her idea of encouraging us, the readers, to take the 'world view'. She brings into focus not only the latest thinking on leadership, but also some of the classical thinking that has underpinned the activities and beliefs of organizations and the societies in which they exist, for many centuries. If you are fed-up with the rot that is consuming most organizations and you want to find a truly inspirational way of developing yourself (or those within your organization) In Search of Leaders will help you escape. If you freeze water it becomes ice. Yet, when melting it reverts to water. This is change. If you burn a stick of wood, it becomes ashes. It can never become wood again. This is transformation. Learn how to transform yourself, rather than simply change. Follow the journey on which Hilarie Owen takes you, a journey that will allow you to discover your potential as a great leader in your own sphere of ambition and beyond. 'Illustrates brilliantly the importance of understanding the human essence of leadership.' Warren Bennis, Distinguished Professor of Business Administration, University of Southern California and Visiting Professor of Leadership, University of Exeter. Author of On Becoming a Leader and Organizing Genius.