{"product_id":"the-leaders-edge-isbn-9780787909994","title":"The Leader's Edge","description":"Let the Center for Creative Leadership show you how you can dramatically improve your leadership abilities in today's business environment. Based on years of specialized research, \u003ci\u003eThe Leader's Edge\u003c\/i\u003e outlines six distinct creative leadership skills that, while not traditionally associated with management development, have, nevertheless, proven to be essential to modern business leadership. Here, the book's authors deliver compelling lessons in paying attention, personalizing, imaging, serious play, collaborative inquiry, and crafting -- all competencies that modern leaders should master. They also outline activities for real-world implementation, provide case examples, and suggest ways to avoid common mistakes. A wealth of self-reflections and tools helps ensure your rapid progress.Der ultimative Schritt-für-Schritt Leitfaden für Manager, die ihren Führungsqualitäten mehr Kreativität verleihen wollen.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Er basiert auf jahrelanger Forschungsarbeit.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Die Autoren stellen hier eine bewährte Methode für sicheren Führungserfolg vor.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Sie beschreiben sechs unterschiedliche, aber miteinander verflochtene Kompetenzen für kreative Führung, die wichtige Aspekte menschlichen Verhaltens widerspiegeln, aber bislang nur unzureichend für eine funktionierende Unternehmensführung in Betracht gezogen wurden.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Mit genauer Anleitung, welche Maßnahmen notwendig sind, um die jeweilige Kompetenz zu erwerben.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Bietet eine Fülle von Hilfsmitteln und Beurteilungstests, mit deren Hilfe man die sechs Kompetenzen entwickeln kann.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Enthält eine Fülle von Beispielen und Fallstudien sowie Tipps und Hinweise, wie man Missbrauch vermeidet.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Ein neuer Band zum Thema Leadership vom renommierten Center for Creative Leadership. Preface.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e The Authors.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Navigating Complex Challenges.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 1. Paying Attention.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Shifting Between Modes of Attention.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Understanding Left-Mode and Right-Mode Attention.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Using Kinesthetic Attention.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Paying Attention to Negative Space.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Asking Powerful Questions.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Developing the Competency of Paying Attention.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Cautions.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 2. Personalizing.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Learning Begins with the Personal Connection.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Practicing Assessment for Development (A4D).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Practicing Exploration for Development (E4D).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Tapping Into Your Passion.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Knowing When to Let Go of Your Personal Side.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Developing the Competency of Personalizing.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Cautions.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 3. Imaging.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Making Imagination Tangible.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Seeing Organizational Vision in a New Light.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Exploring Scenarios.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Making and Using Metaphors.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Making Poetry in the Face of Complexity.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Developing the Competency of Imaging.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Cautions.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 4. Serious Play.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Play Enhances Learning amid Turbulence.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Play Is a Community Activity.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Play Is the Heart of Science and Technology.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Developing the Competency of Serious Play.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Cautions.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 5. Co-Inquiry.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Building Creative Leadership Communities.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Creating Spaces for Group Work.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Conducting Dialogue.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Putting Something in the Middle.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Crossing Boundaries.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Developing the Competency of Co-Inquiry.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Cautions.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 6. Crafting.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Thinking in Wholes.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Crafting Decisions.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Building Scaffolds for Learning.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Developing Leadership as Science and as Art.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Learning from Artists.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Developing the Competency of Crafting.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Cautions.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 7. Creative Leadership in Action.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Case Study 1: Task Force Collaboration.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Case Study 2: Leadership in New Media.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Case Study 3: Individual Leadership Coaching.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Case Study 4: Creative Product Innovation.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Case Study 5: Executive Interdependence.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Case Study 6: Inventing a New Manufacturing Paradigm.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Appendix A: The Leading Creatively Program.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Appendix B: Our Research Methods.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Appendix C: A Reflective Assessment of C2 Competencies: Competencies for Making Sense of Complex Challenges.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Appendix D: The ORC Star-Mapping Process.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Notes.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Bibliography.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e About the Center for Creative Leadership. Charles J. Palus is a research scientist and project manager in the Leadership for Complex Challenges practice area at the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL). His research interests focus on the relationship between meaning-making and leadership.\u003cbr\u003e David M. Horth is a program manager and a senior faculty member with the Leadership for Complex Challenges practice area at CCL. He trains in many executive development programs, including leadership development and creativity programs for the international community. The tasks faced by organizations today are increasingly complex, and leaders find themselves faced with challenges from all sides: accelerating technology, deregulation, mergers and acquisitions, shifting demographics, new business models, and an uncertain economy. Indeed, to many these challenges seem insurmountable, because traditional management skills are simply not enough to cope with them. The Leader's Edge offers a breakthrough approach to dealing with such situations, showing how to tap into a set of unique creative competencies that are necessary to survive and thrive in this turbulent environment.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Based on seven years of research on several hundred individual leaders and teams from a variety of industries and disciplines, The Leader's Edge identifies the insight, skills, techniques, and wisdom that separate true leaders from merely effective managers. The key to truly creative and successful leadership, say Charles J. Palus and David M. Horth, lies in adding six key competencies to traditional leadership skills: paying attention, personalizing, imaging, serious play, collaborative inquiry, and crafting. The authors reveal how any leader can access and use these sensibilities and skills to make sense of rapid change and complexity-and thus provide an invaluable \"leader's edge.\"\u003cbr\u003e The Leader's Edge will help managers recognize the competencies they already have and develop them further. It will give them a practical understanding of how the creative competencies, when integrated with traditional skills, are vital to the essential process of making sense. And it will show them how to help their organizations and communities develop and use these competencies to create shared understanding, and so better navigate and resolve complex challenges. \"A true breakthrough approach to contemporary leadership. The content enables awareness, development, understanding, and application of six competencies essential to guiding organizations through today's complex and ever-changing business environment. Further, it enables levels of individual and organizational introspection vital to the change and adaptation required in leading and managing through complex challenges.\"\u003cbr\u003e --Michael A. Barker, executive director of leadership development and executive staffing, Verizon Communications\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"No one in any managerial position can ignore this wonderful book, which teaches in a most practical-and interesting-way how to lead and manage effectively. Using real-life examples, the authors painstakingly detail a step-by-step methodology which will literally transform your thinking and take you into the exciting world of creative leadership!\"\u003cbr\u003e --Kirpal Singh, professor and director of the Centre for Cross-Cultural Studies, Singapore Management University.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"The creative process has been captured at last, and what a ride. True to the best of learning theory, elegantly simple. A must-read for leaders with the courage to walk on the edge.\"\u003cbr\u003e --Bernice McCarthy, president, About Learning, Inc.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Horth and Palus understand the critical role leaders play in creating an environment for productive social engagement in turbulent times. Their practical advice is a must-read for leaders at all levels.\"\u003cbr\u003e --Kevin E. Kirby, vice president for administration (health sciences), Columbia University, and former executive officer, National Institutes of Health \"A true breakthrough approach to contemporary leadership. The content enables awareness, development, understanding, and application of six competencies essential to guiding organizations through today's complex and ever-changing business environment. Further, it enables levels of individual and organizational introspection vital to the change and adaptation required in leading and managing through complex challenges.\"\u003cbr\u003e --Michael A. Barker, executive director of leadership development and executive staffing, Verizon Communications\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"No one in any managerial position can ignore this wonderful book, which teaches in a most practical-and interesting-way how to lead and manage effectively. Using real-life examples, the authors painstakingly detail a step-by-step methodology which will literally transform your thinking and take you into the exciting world of creative leadership!\"\u003cbr\u003e --Kirpal Singh, professor and director of the Centre for Cross-Cultural Studies, Singapore Management University.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"The creative process has been captured at last, and what a ride. True to the best of learning theory, elegantly simple. A must-read for leaders with the courage to walk on the edge.\"\u003cbr\u003e --Bernice McCarthy, president, About Learning, Inc.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Horth and Palus understand the critical role leaders play in creating an environment for productive social engagement in turbulent times. Their practical advice is a must-read for leaders at all levels.\"\u003cbr\u003e --Kevin E. Kirby, vice president for administration (health sciences), Columbia University, and former executive officer, National Institutes of Health\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"The manager just tapped to become a senior leader may have an abstract fear of the new, and a new fear of the abstract-giving rise to questions that begin with 'How do I?' This book maps new avenues to thoughtful and meaningful answers to some of the more befuddling of these questions.\"\u003cbr\u003e --Hunton Tiffany, chairman, The Fauquier Bank, Warrenton, Virginia.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"The consciousness of leadership and its effects on any organization is more important than ever in our world of increasing speed, complexity, and unpredictability. This book is a valuable contribution to help apply efficient leadership in today's world.\"\u003cbr\u003e --Ingar Skaug, president and CEO, Wallenius Wilhelmsen Lines AS, Norway\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"This well-written book moves beyond creativity theory and provides the reader with enabling tools that will greatly assist in developing creative individuals and environments. Through a series of engaging techniques the authors have given us new ways of stimulating the creative impulse that is resident in all of us. Highly recommended.\"\u003cbr\u003e --Maurice Terry, president and CEO, Guelph Food Technology Center, Guelph, Canada\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"The authors' collaboration has produced a 'work of art,' a useful, simple look at six key competencies everyone should explore and apply.\"\u003cbr\u003e --Michael A. Cafasso, president and CEO, Pueblo Bank and Trust, Pueblo, Colorado\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"At last, a full-spectrum palette for all sorts of creative leaders. This book feels like one of those beautiful Italian artist's sets I sometimes see--full of high-quality paints, brushes, and delightful surprises, practically guaranteed to produce living rainbows.\"\u003cbr\u003e --David Barry, professorial chair of organizational creativity, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand","brand":"Jossey-Bass","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47990275408101,"sku":"NP9780787909994","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780787909994.jpg?v=1761787162","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-leaders-edge-isbn-9780787909994","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}