Dotlich / Cairo / Cowan The Unfinished Leader

Balancing Contradictory Answers to Unsolvable Problems
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-118-86711-2
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten, E-Book

With the demands of technology, transparency, and constant connectedness, and calls for higher performance, leaders from the front line to the C-suite face complex dilemmas that cannot be easily denied or postponed. These perplexing, recurring issues are familiar to anyone in a leadership role today, including:
* How do I balance my functional or business unit goals with the needs of my peers and the whole company?
* How do I support and promote others while still advancing my own career?
* How do I emphasize teamwork and still reward the "stars"?
* Can I really devote enough time and energy to both family and work?
These are not "problems" but paradoxes--situations in which there will never be a single correct solution--and while they make many leaders feel overwhelmed and challenged, this remarkable book provides help. The Unfinished Leader is a modern handbook for recognizing, facing, and inspiring others to expose the real issues that underlie paradoxes in modern organizations. Leaders must first recognize situations they will never be able to "solve" and understand how to confront the barriers--in their own heads and their organizations--that push them towards seeking ultimate solutions that don't exist. Leading through complexity requires giving up the illusion of control, consistency, and closure, while embracing the reality of being permanently "unfinished."Drawing from interviews with 100 CEOs and top leaders from a wide range of companies--such as Avon, Nike, Colgate, DeutschePost DHL, Johnson & Johnson, PepsiCo, and many more-- The Unfinished Leader provides the mindsets and tools to recognize contradictory requirements, understand competing demands, and still be able to take action. No one can find or even should look for perfect solutions to impossible situations. The Unfinished Leader will help leaders at all levels understand and excel at their true task: guiding themselves and their teams through ongoing paradoxes, reconciling competing outcomes, continually changing and adapting, and thereby building lasting success.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Dotlich, David L.

Cairo, Peter C.

Cowan, Cade

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword ix
by Stephen H. Rhinesmith
Preface xiii
Introduction: Stepping Up to Complete Leadership 1
PART 1 THE CHALLENGE OF PARADOXES 9
1 Puzzles and Paradoxes 11
2 Jumping Over the Line 30
3 Obstacles to Leadership 52
PART 2 MINDSETS FOR LEADING THROUGH PARADOX 69
4 The Purpose Mindset 71
5 The Reconciliation Mindset 91
6 The Innovation Mindset 108
PART 3 TOOLS FOR LEADERSHIP 129
7 Scanning for the Right Paradox 131
8 Scenario Thinking 143
9 Stakeholder Mapping 159
10 Dialogue for Alignment 172
11 Quelling Confl ict 185
PART 4 YOUR PERSONAL CHALLENGE 201
12 Developing Yourself 203
Conclusion: Managing Personal and Public Paradoxes 224
Notes 229
About the Authors 239
Index 241

Über Autor(innen)

David L. Dotlich is chairman and CEO of Pivot Leadership,one of the world's largest providers of customized executivedevelopment for top leaders of Fortune 500 companies, includingWalmart, Johnson & Johnson, GSK, Nike, Microsoft, Ericsson,Aetna, Kimberly-Clark, KKR, Deutsche Post DHL, AbbVie, and manyothers. He is a successful entrepreneur who has started multiplecompanies and is a former executive vice president of HoneywellInternational. He is coauthor of eleven books, among them Head,Heart, and Guts and Why CEOs Fail. He lives in Portland,Oregon, and New York City.
Peter C. Cairo is a consultant who advises CEOs andboards at companies such as BlackRock, Colgate-Palmolive, GSK, AvonProducts, ITW, PepsiCo, Thomson Reuters, Interpublic Group, KPMG,Boehringer Ingelheim, and the Carlyle Group. A noted author andspeaker, he is coauthor of six books, among them Head, Heart,and Guts and Why CEOs Fail. He lives in upstate NewYork.
Cade Cowan is the head of Pivot Leadership's globalLeadership Practice and has led programs in thirty-one countries onfive continents with firms ranging from Walmart to GlaxoSmithKlineto Aetna. He was director of all global learning for Coca-ColaUniversity, Bottling Investments Group (BIG), and program directorat GE's Crotonville. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia.
For more information, please visit pivotleadership.com