The Leader of the Future 2: Visions,

Today's top thinkers in the field offer their vision of leadership for a new generation The Leader of the Future sold 200,000 copies and broke new ground in leadership literature. Now, ten years later, The Leader of the Future 2 gives voice to the most critical issues and transformative ideas for the leaders of today and tomorrow. The book features a who's who of today's top leadership thinkers from the private, nonprofit, and public sectors, with many of the thought leaders from The Leader of the Future returning to offer their insights, including: Ken Blanchard Stephen Covey Charles Handy Sally Helgeson Rosabeth Moss Kanter Jim Kouzes & Barry Posner Peter Senge Ed Schein John Alexander Howard Gardner Brian Connell Jeff Pfeffer Gen. Eric Shinseki Noel Tichy Frances Hesselbein (New York, NY) is founding President and Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Leader to Leader Institute and Editor in Chief of its journal Leader to Leader. Hesselbein was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States' highest civilian honor, in 1998. Marshall Goldsmith (Rancho Santa Fe, CA) is listed in Forbes magazine as one of five top executive coaches and in Human Resources magazine as one of the world's leading HR consultants.

Frances Hesselbein is the founding president and chairman of the Leader to Leader Institute, formerly the Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management. She served as CEO of the Girl Scouts of the USA and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. She is the author of Hesselbein on Leadership, coeditor of twenty other books including Be, Know, Do, and the editor-in-chief of the journal Leader to Leader.

Marshall Goldsmith has been recognized for his outstanding work in leadership and management by the American Management Association, Business Week, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, and The Economist. In addition to The Leader of the Future 2, Goldsmith is the author or coeditor of twenty-two books, including the upcoming What Got You Here Won't Get You There.

The Leader to Leader Institute's mission is to strengthen the leadership of the social sector. Established in 1990 as the Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management, the Institute, in collaboration with its partners in the private and public sectors, furthers its mission by providing social sector leaders with the essential leadership wisdom, inspiration, and resources needed to lead for innovation and to build vibrant social nonprofit organizations.

Preface

xi

Frances Hesselbein and Marshall Goldsmith

Part One: A Vision of Leadership

1. Peter F. Drucker on Executive Leadership and Effectiveness

3

(28)

Joseph A. Maciariello

Part Two: Leading in a Diverse World

2. Systems Citizenship: The Leadership Mandate for This Millennium

31

(16)

Peter Senge

3. Diversity Management: An Essential Craft for Future Leaders

47

(8)

R. Roosevelt Thomas Jr.

4. Ten Things I Learned About Leadership from Women Executive Directors of Color

55

(6)

Jan Masaoka

5. How Cosmopolitan Leaders Inspire Confidence: A Profile of the Future

61

(12)

Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Part Three: Leading in a Time of Crisis and Complexity

6. Anchoring Leadership in the Work of Adaptive Progress

73

(12)

Ronald A. Heifetz

7. The Challenge of Complexity

85

(10)

John Alexander

8. Understanding the Nonprofit Sector's Leadership Deficit

95

(12)

Thomas J. Tierney

9. Leadership Over Fear

107

(6)

John Edwin Mroz

10. Leading in a Constantly Changing World

113

(8)

Ponchitta Pierce

11. Leaders of the Future: Growing One-Eyed Kings

121

(10)

General Eric K. Shinseki

Part Four: Leading Organizations of the Future

12. Philosopher Leaders

131

(10)

Charles Handy

13. Leadership as a Brand

141

(12)

Dave Ulrich and Norm Smallwood

14. Regaining Public Trust: A Leadership Challenge

153

(12)

Ken Blanchard and Dennis Carey

15. Leading New Age Professionals

165

(8)

Marshall Goldsmith

16. Tomorrow's Leader

173

(10)

Srikumar S. Rao

17. Challenges for Leaders in the Years Ahead

183

(8)

Sally Helgesen

18. Leadership Judgment at the Front Line

191

(16)

Noel M. Tichy and Chris DeRose

19. It's Not Just the Leader's Vision

207

(8)

Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner

Part Five: The Quality and Character of the Leader of the Future

20. Leading in the Knowledge Worker Age

215

(12)

Stephen R. Covey

21. Are the Best Leaders Like Professors? Teaching, Asking Questions, and Evidence-Based Management

227

(14)

Jeffrey Pfeffer

22. The Leader Integrator: An Emerging Role

241

(14)

Usman A. Ghani

23. Leadership Competencies: A Provocative New Look

255

(10)

Edgar H. Schein

24. The Three Elements of Good Leadership in Rapidly Changing Times

265

(16)

Lynn Barendsen and Howard Gardner

25. Distinctive Characteristics of Successful Leaders of Voluntary Organizations: Past, Present, and Future

281

(8)

Brian O'Connell

26. The Leader in Midlife

289

(8)

Richard J. Leider

27. Leading from the Spirit

297

(6)

Darlyne Bailey

The Editors

303

(2)

Index

305

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The Leader of the Future 2: Visions, Strategies, and Practices for the New Era

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