Leadership Can Be Taught

Allows readers to experience the dynamic "case-in-point" approach to teaching leadership, based on Harvard professor Ronald Heifetz's internationally renowned leadership courseThis book argues that today's complex times require a new kind of leader-one who can adapt to constant changes, learn in the moment and apply that learning to make wise business decisions. But to train this type of leader, we need a new approach to leadership teaching.Leadership Can Be Taught dynamically outlines Ronald Heifetz's renowned "case-in-point" approach, which enables managers to learn crucial business skills from immediate experience rather than through third-hand readings.

Sharon Daloz Parks is Director of Leadership for the New Commons - an initiative of the Whidbey Institute in Clinton, Washington.