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Offers an insightful look at the characteristics great leaders have in common--realism, vision, ethics, and courage--and identifies the strategies all managers can use to achieve and sustain both personal and organizational greatness. Challenges managers to give meaning to their lives through the quality of their work, revealing how personal growth can translate into organizational profits.

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• Preface to the Second Edition(p. xi)
• Preface to the First Edition(p. xv)
• The Author(p. xix)
• Introduction--The Oath of Inner Greatness: Nine Keys to Business Wisdom(p. 1)
• Part 1 The Model: What Is Inner Greatness?
• 1 Foundations of Leadership(p. 17)
• 2 The Leadership Diamond: Four Strategies for Greatness(p. 41)
• 3 Vision: Thinking Big and New(p. 62)
• 4 Reality: Having No Illusions(p. 91)
• 5 Ethics: Providing Service(p. 112)
• 6 Courage: Acting with Sustained Initiative(p. 136)
• Part 2 The Context: The Search for Greatness
• 7 Confronting the Challenges(p. 169)
• 8 Developing the Mind(p. 185)
• 9 Implementing the Leadership Diamond(p. 206)
• Part 3 The Real World: Leadership Strategies in Action
• 10 Building Individual Skills(p. 233)
• 11 Expanding Organizational Skills(p. 255)
• 12 Diamond Relevance to Current Crises(p. 287)
• A Leadership Resource: Tips for Achieving and Sustaining Inner Greatness(p. 327)
• References(p. 357)
• Index(p. 361)

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Library Journal Review

Like most books about leadership, this one improves when the author finishes up with generalities and gets down to specifics. Whether it fulfills its ``promise'' (``to double your business leadership effectiveness on any measure you choose'') is debatable; still there are pickings in the book for the would-be leader of a kind not to be found in the many other treatises on the subject. Believing that leadership is a ``mindset and a pattern of behaviors'' that can be learned and taught, Koestenbaum presents and illustrates the meaning of his ``Leadership Diamond.'' This consists of ``four strategies for greatness'': vision (thinking big and new), reality (having no illusions), ethics (providing service), and courage (acting with sustained initiative). The ``greatness'' theme becomes a bit tedious, but there are many compensations. For management collections.--A.J. Anderson, Graduate Sch. of Lib. & Information Science, Simmons Coll., Boston (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

CHOICE Review

Koestenbaum, a management consultant who previously taught philosophy at San Jose State University, uses a philosophical approach to the development of a leadership orientation. Although this philosophic orientation to leadership may appear to be fresh, the leadership diamond model on which the book is based includes many components of classic behavioral and trait studies of leadership. The four leadership characteristics (or dimensions as the author calls them) are vision, courage, reality, and ethics. One chapter is devoted to the explanation of each dimension. The book is divided into three parts: (1) the need for greatness in the corporate sector; (2) a detailed explanation of the leadership diamond; and (3) A number of applications of the leadership diamond to various business and personal situations. The relatively brief reference list relies heavily on the classics in philosophy and the popular press such as Time, Business Week, and The Wall Street Journal. Highly readable, this book will be of interest to students, professionals, and general readers interested in the topic of leadership.-P. D. Albro, Castleton State College

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Peter Koestenbaum is the founder and chairman of Philosophy-in-Business and the Koestenbaum Institute