Leading in Complex Worlds

by JoAnn Danelo Barbour (Editor)

To live in complex worlds means living in the balance between moments of routine and moments of uncertainty, between the places of practice and the places of performance.

Leading in Complex Worlds will prove to be an invaluable resource for leaders, scholars, educators, development professionals, and anyone with a professional interest in leadership.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

List of Contributors
Introduction
Infusion

PART The Complexity of Leader Development

Chapter 1: Discovering Leadership and Winning Friends
Chapter 2: Deepening Self-Awareness Through Dialogue - a Theoretical Framework for Leading in Complex Worlds
Chapter 3: Communications, Ethics, and Vision Trump Experience
Chapter 4: Leading The Transformation of Leadership via Convergence with Learning
Chapter 5: Leadership Education - the Power of Storytelling
Chapter 6: Developing Leaders for a Complex World - Mapping ILA's Guiding Questions to an Undergraduate Interdisciplinary Minor in Leadership

PART The Complexity of Leadership Practice

Chapter 7: Black Women's Political Leadership Development - Recentering the Leadership Discourse
Chapter 8: Leadership Lessons from the Criminal World
Chapter 9: Soccer Tactics and Complexity Leadership
Chapter 10: A Complex Landscape - Reflections on Leaders and the Places They Create

PART The Complexity of Leading in a Globalized World

Chapter 11: Global Leadership - How an Emerging Construct is Informed by Complex Systems Theory
Chapter 12: The Role of Culture and History in the Applicability of Western Leadership Theories in Africa
Chapter 13: A Tao Complexity Tool - Leading from Being
Chapter 14: The Leadership of Dr. Jane Goodall - A Four-Quadrant Perspective

If You Would Lead Me - Reflections on Leadership

Index

Genres: Leadership

280 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2012