Is your leadership a competitive advantage, or is it costing you? How do you know? Are you developing your leadership effectiveness at the pace of change?
For most leaders today, complexity is outpacing their personal and collective development. Most leaders arein over their heads, whether they know it or not. The most successful organizations over time are the best led. While this has always been true, today escalating global complexity puts leadership effectiveness at a premium.Mastering Leadership involves developing the effectiveness of leadersindividually and collectivelyand turning that leadership into a competitive advantage. This comprehensive roadmap for optimal leadership features:
Breakthrough research that connects increased leadership effectiveness with enhanced business performanceThe first fully integrated Universal Model of Leadershipone that integrates the best theory and research in the fields of Leadership and Organizational Development over the last half centuryA free, online self-assessment of your leadership, using the Leadership Circle Profile, visibly outlining how you are currently leading and how to develop even greater effectivenessThe five stages in the evolution of leadershipEgocentric, Reactive, Creative, Integral, and Unitivealong with the organizational structures and cultures that develop at each of these stagesSix leadership practices for evolving your leadership capability at a faster paceA map of your optimal path to greater leadership effectivenessCase stories that facilitate pragmatic application of this Leadership Development System to your particular situation
This timeless, authoritative text provides a systemic approach for developing your senior leaders and the leadership system of your organization. It does not recommend quick fixes, but argues that real development requires a strategic, long-term, and integrated approach in order to forge more effective leaders and enhanced business performance.Mastering Leadership offers a developmental pathway to bring forth the highest and best use of yourself, your life, and your leadership. By more meaningfully deploying all of who you are every day, individually and collectively, you will achieve a leadership legacy consistent with your highest aspirations.
Acknowledgements xi
Introduction A Universal Model of Leadership and The Leadership Circle Profile Assessment xv
How This Book Came to Be 2
A Better Model of Leadership 2
The Promise of This Book 2
Two Books in One 2
Take the LCP Self-Assessment 2
Going Full Circle 2
Chapter 1 The Promise of Leadership: Meeting the High Bar of Expectations 1
High Bar of Experience and Expectations 2
Leadership Matters 2
Four Universal Promises of Leadership 4
Broken Leadership Promises 9
Keeping the Promise 9
The Leadership Agenda 10
Chapter 2 Leadership Effectiveness and Business Performance: The Primary Competitive Advantage 13
What the Research Shows 13
What is Your Leadership Quotient? 17
Provocative Questions 18
Collective Effectiveness 19
Collective Effectiveness and Intelligence 22
Chapter 3 Mastery and Maturity, Consciousness and Complexity: The Leadership Development Agenda 27
Triumph and Failure of the Inner Game 28
Competency is Only Half the Game 29
Two Games of Leadership 29
Inner Game Runs the Outer Game 31
Litany of the Literature 33
Four Foundational Premises 35
Consciousness and Complexity 38
Understanding Complexity: Redundant Polarities and Problems 40
Non-Obvious Points of Leverage 41
The Leadership Imperative 42
The Core Argument 43
Uncommon Sense 44
Collective Wisdom 45
A Global Leadership Imperative 46
Chapter 4 Stages of Development: The Backbone of the Universal Model of Leadership 47
Stages of Development Framework 48
The Universal Model of Leadership 49
Correlation Conclusions 53
Trajectory of Life-Long Development 55
Childhood: Seeing Development the Easy Way 56
Identity is at the Core 58
Chapter 5 Five Levels of Leadership: Structures of Mind and Performance 61
Egocentric Leadership 63
Reactive Leadership 66
Creative Leadership 75
Integral Leadership 82
Unitive Leadership 85
Chapter 6 The Universal Model and Metrics: Global Leadership, Cross-Cultural, and Gender Application 87
Task and RelationshipHorizontal Axis 87
A Dynamic Model 89
Optimal Leadership 90
Link to Performance and Effectiveness 92
Dynamic Polarities 96
Universality of the Model 99
Case in Point: Cross-Cultural Application in Rural Uganda 102
Gender and the Universal Model 104
Stage of Development Research 106
Conclusions and Implications 112
Chapter 7 The Leadership System: The Central Organizing System 115
Six Systems of Organizational Effectiveness 116
Whole Systems Approach to Developing Leadership 120
Four Compelling Case Studies 122
Owning Development from the Top 151
Chapter 8 Reactive Leadership: An Insufficient Triumph of Development 155
Performance Review 156
Leave Your Ego at the Door 156
I Dare You to Tell Me the Truth 156
Two Primary Movements 160
Structure of Reactive Mind 169
Core Operating Beliefs 176
Putting It All Together 179
The Leadership Agenda 180
Chapter 9 Reactive Leadership at Work: From Patriarchy to Partnership 183
Moving from Patriarchy to Partnership 183
Navigating Two Journeys 185
Three Core Reactive Types 186
Gifts of Each Type 189
Gifts Hung on a Reactive Structure 191
Reactive DynamicsTrue to Type 194
Reactive Type Dynamics in the Universal Model 198
Natural Selection ProcessCreating Collective Patterns of Patriarchy 200
Chapter 10 Creative Leadership: Fulfilling the Promise of Leadership 205
Performance Review 205
The Heros Journey 207
What the Transition Looks Like 209
Talking About It Without Knowing It 211
Creative Structure 213
Creative Structure of Identity 216
Restructuring Identity Beliefs 216
Designed for Leading Change 220
Creative Mind and Performance 221
Alignment 223
Path of DevelopmentMove Toward Your Near Enemy 224
Type Through Stage 229
Creative Organizations 229
Integration 230
Literacy in the Pathways of Transformation 231
Two Currents of Transformation 232
Chapter 11 Six Leadership Practices: Spiritual Boot Camp for Leaders 239
Practice 1: Discerning Purpose 239
Practice 2: Distilling Vision 245
Practice 3: Knowing Your Doubts and Fears 248
Practice 4: Engage in Authentic, Courageous Dialogue 252
Practice 5: Develop Intuition, Open to Inspiration 255
Practice 6: Think Systemically 259
Path of Mastering Leadership 262
Chapter 12 Integral Leadership: Built for Complexity, Designed for Transformation 265
Brief Summary of Stages 267
Servant of the System 268
Maturing Intuition 268
Seeing the Entire Development Spectrum 269
Holding Unresolvedness, Conflict, and Tension 270
As Within, So Without 271
A Meeting of Twin Opposites 272
Have You Ever Once Asked Me What I Want? 272
Shadow Side of the Universal Model 274
Fierce Compassion, The Dance of Enemies 286
Why is Change so Difficult? 291
Integral Leadership Imperative 292
Chapter 13 Unity: Journeys End, Development Turned Upside Down 295
Waves on the Ocean 296
No Self, All God 297
Development Turned Upside Down 299
Two Arguments for Development 300
Not Me, Not Me 300
Unity Leadership 301
Appendix 1 Leadership Circle Profile Summary Dimensions 303
Appendix 2 Theorists Integrated into The Leadership Circle Universal Model of Leadership 309
References 315
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