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The success of an organization depends on its spirit — the inner force that inspires and motivates its workers. This unique guide shows managers how to let this spirit blossom by adopting the informal leadership strategies women have used for ages — vision, storytelling, structure, comfort, and renewal. 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. Harrison Owen suggests that there is a gap in leadership, because we are going through chaotic, transforming times, and traditional leaders can no longer be in control and protect us from it. However, instead of looking for leadership in the few or "the One," we should recognize that all individuals have the capacity for leadership and, through self-organizing activity, appropriate leadership will emerge for different tasks. He is especially impressed by the power of the informal organization to achieve results and for true leadership to emerge from the interaction of people in this informal milieu. He identifies leadership with the power of Spirit to inspire others. Five functions of leadership are the focus of the book: evoking Spirit with vision, growing Spirit with collective storytelling, sustaining Spirit with structure, comforting Spirit at the end, and reviving Spirit to move through a period of grief at endings and move on. The book is written as an essay or narrative, with observations, examples, and opinions about what could or should be. While Owen's book reflects a trend in business to provide more meaning and purpose through spiritual underpinnings, some may find his discussion of "Spirit" somewhat fuzzy and hard to grasp. The language of the book is occasionally rambling and his claims don't always seem totally convincing. However, the book presents the subject of leadership in a fascinating new light "The business world is desperate for leaders. Companies everywhere search in vain for that one person who can make sense of their rapidly changing environment through assertiveness, charisma, and control. But renowned consultant Harrison Owen reveals that our inability to locate such a person is the result of misguided expectations. The solutions we seek, he says, don't lie with such old-style leaders. Today's world requires inspired leadership from all levels of the organization." "Here Owen calls for a new kind of leader, one who flows with rather than fights against change. In doing so, he 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 provides practical steps you can use today to uncover your own capacity for leadership in whatever position you are in, and to exercise that capacity both to enhance the performance of your organization and to find personal fulfillment. Book jacket."--Jacket Contents......Page 6 Preface......Page 8 1 Where Have All the Leaders Gone?......Page 10 2 Transformation: The Context of Leadership......Page 28 3 A Whole New Ball Game: Leadership and the Informal Organization......Page 38 4 Leadership Lessons from the Disenfranchised: Women......Page 44 5 Life in the Underground: The Basics of Leadership......Page 50 6 Spirit and Leadership......Page 60 7 The First Function of Leadership: Evoking Spirit with Vision......Page 70 8 The Second Function of Leadership: Growing Spirit Through Collective Storytelling......Page 80 9 The Third Function of Leadership: Sustaining Spirit with Structure......Page 92 10 The Fourth Function of Leadership: Comforting Spirit When Things Fall Apart......Page 114 11 The Fifth Function of Leadership: Raising Spirit......Page 124 12 The Spirit of Leadership: The Leader’s Spirit......Page 142 Selected Bibliography......Page 152 C......Page 156 E......Page 157 I......Page 158 L......Page 159 O......Page 160 S......Page 161 T......Page 162 W......Page 163 About the Author......Page 164 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.
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