Leadership Can Be Taught

Author: Sharon Parks
Publisher: Harvard Business School Press
ISBN: 9781591393092
Published In: November 2005
Format: Hardback
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Introduction

Allows readers to experience the dynamic 'case-in-point' approach to teaching leadership, based on Harvard professor Ronald Heifetz's internationally renowned leadership course

This 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.

About the book

Allows readers to experience the dynamic 'case-in-point' approach to teaching leadership, based on Harvard professor Ronald Heifetz's internationally renowned leadership course This 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.

Key features

Dynamic, alternative teaching approach: Trades the conventional case study approach that analyses historical examples for a 'case-in-point' method that uses peoples' own experiences and the classroom itself as a crucible for learning.

Unique delivery: Utilises a dynamic 'you-are-there' writing style that places the reader in the classroom.

First-hand access to Ronald Heifetz's internationally renowned leadership course.

Fills a gap in leadership arena: Focuses on the actual teaching of leadership as opposed to narratives about exemplary individuals.

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1: Leadership for a Changing World: A Call to Adaptive Work

Chapter 2: How Do We Begin'

Chapter 3: What Is Really Going On Here': Engaging People at the Edge of Learning

Chapter 4: Learning from Failure in Public: The Power of Small Group Consultation

Chapter 5: Listening to the Music Beneath the Words: The Practice of Presence

Chapter 6: What Endures': The Power of Language, Image, & Metaphor

Chapter 7: Courage and Costs: Discovering How to Teach the Unteachable

Chapter 8: The Same Approach'Other Teachers: The Question of Transferability

Chapter 9: Toward a More Adequate Myth: The Art of Leadership

Chapter 10: Leadership Can Be Taught

Sharon Daloz Parks is Director of Leadership for the New Commons'an initiative of the Whidbey Institute in Clinton, WA. She has held faculty and research positions at the Harvard Divinity School, Harvard Business School and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.