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Leading-Edge Thought From the World's Best Business Minds "A one-stop shopping guide that shows how leaders can be successful in the year 2000 and beyond."
--American Society for Training and Development

Discover what Stephen Covey, Ken Blanchard, Peter Senge, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, and other business-world luminaries have to say about the direction of leadership for the future. The Drucker Foundation brings together the best business minds in more than 30 never-before-published essays, each one offering a special perspective on leadership and a unique glimpse into the future.

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• Foreword
• Leading the Organization of the Future
• The New Language of Organizing and Its Implications for Leaders
• Leading the De-Jobbed Organization
• Leading from the Grassroots
• Creating Organizations with Many Leaders
• Leading Learning Organizations: The Bold, the Powerful, and the Invisible
• Leadership and Organizational Culture
• Leading a Diverse Workforce
• Turning the Organizational Pyramid Upside Down
• Future Leaders in Action
• World-Class Leaders: The Power of Partnering
• Seven Lessons for Leading the Voyage to the Future
• Leaders Who Shape and Keep Performance-Oriented Culture
• The "How to Be" Leader
• On Future Leaders
• Peacetime Management and Wartime Leadership
• A Recipe for Glue
• Learning to Lead for Tomorrow
• Three Roles of the Leader in the New Paradigm
• Developing Three-Dimensional Leaders
• New Skills for New Leadership Roles
• The Ultimate Leadership Task: Self-Leadership
• The Following Part of Leading
• Credibility X Credibility
• Learning from Past Leaders
• Ask, Learn, Follow Up, and Grow
• Executives on the Future of Leadership
• The Leader Who Serves
• A Constitutional Model of Leadership
• Either/Or Yields to the Theory of Both
• Key Leadership Challenges for Present and Future Executives
• Energy and Leadership
• The Puzzles of Leadership
• An "Outsider2s" View of Leadership
• Growing Tomorrow2s Leaders

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CHOICE Review

No distillable laws of leadership exist for entrepreneurs to acquire and patent. However, this volume's 31 articles on organizational leadership embrace individual contributions by America's top management consultants, leavened by academic experts and corporate CEOs and managers. Evident drawbacks of such diverse, personal, short "takes" include Tower-of-Babel disjointedness, repetitiveness, a tendency toward generalizations, and absence of empirical evidence and operational concreteness. Nevertheless, readers will discern common themes. Future leaders--not mere routine managers--must fit the more turbulent organizational environments produced by globalization, technological change, and the ease of communication. That logic is scarcely new, but its implications are critical: leaders must allow for contingencies of circumstances, strive for the highest personal character, collaborate more and empower nominal subordinates (mixing leading and following), and inculcate cultures of flexibility and change. Still, the book's format constrains authors' attention to strategic substance and follow-through on diagnoses and exhortations. Recommended for its broad, accessible sampling of today's best professional thinking; every reader will find stimulating, resonant ideas. Upper-division undergraduate through professionals. J. C. Thompson emeritus, University of Connecticut

Booklist Review

The Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management was founded in 1990, with its mission to "help the social sector achieve excellence in performance and build responsible leadership." Hesselbein, former CEO of Girl Scouts of the USA and now head of the Drucker Foundation, and her coeditors have attracted an impressive roster of contributors. Thirty-seven notables, such as Peter Senge, Charles Handy, Rosabeth Kanter, and Stephen Covey, offer their views on leadership, examining what the organization of the future will be like and how leaders might be developed. Though they target present and potential leaders of so-called third-sector organizations, these 31 previously unpublished essays will be of definite interest to those in government and the corporate world as well. --David Rouse

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FRANCES HESSELBEIN is chairman of the board of governors of the Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management and editor-in-chief of Leader to Leader. She was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, in 1998. MARSHALL GOLDSMITH has been rated by the Wall Street Journal as one of the top ten consultants in the field of executive development. RICHARD BECKHARD is a former professor at the Sloan School of Management at MIT. Author of six books, he is an organization development consultant living in New York City.