The Leader of the Future - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0787901806 ISBN 13: 9780787901806

Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 1996

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

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.

From the Back Cover

The prestigious Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management brings together a peerless selection of leaders, respected executives, best-selling authors, and world-renowned consultants who share their visions of the future of leadership. The Leader of the Future is a compAndium of new thought, a book about the future quality of our lives, our businesses, our organizations, our society and the leadership required to move us into the organization of the future.

From the Inside Flap

The Leader of the Future is a compendium of new thought. It is a book about the future quality of our lives, our businesses, our organizations, our society?and the leadership required to move us into the exciting unknown. This book demonstrates:How leaders emerge, indepAndent of official rank or status, from within organizations that nurture dispersed authorityHow leadership roles are defined for those willing to assume responsibility for fostering change though ?leading the learning organization?How leaders motivate by turning the organizational pyramid upside downHow partnering has become a primary skill of the world-class leaderHow to break the myth that only a lucky few can ever decipher the leadership codeHow the leader of the next millennium will create a culture based on principles ? all within a turbulent worldHow to inspire hope and purpose in those who want direction and wish to contributeAll the authors define their own scenarios, as different and compelling as their individual records of success?and each powerfully relevant to the future of business, government, and the nonprofit sectors.

Reviews

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

Edition details

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0787901806
• ISBN 13: 9780787901806
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 321
• Editor: Hesselbein Frances, Goldsmith Marshall, Beckhard Richard