Clear Leadership: Sustaining Real Collaboration and Partnership at Work - Hardcover

Bushe, Gervase R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0891062270 ISBN 13: 9780891062271

Publisher: UNKNO, 2009

Synopsis

Expanding on the fresh concepts that made the first edition of Clear Leadership such a success a decade ago, Bushe brings up-to-date the tools and techniques needed to build sustaining partnerships and make today's collaborative organizations work. This fully revised edition now includes 23 skill-building exercises, dozens of personal stories and examples, and completely new chapters that add a sharper focus on ways that the original model of the four selves—the Aware, Curious, Appreciative, and Descriptive Self—can help anyone cut through the miscommunication, misunderstanding, and toxic mush dominating the workplace to achieve clarity, full engagement, and sustained collaboration.

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About the Authors

Gervase R. Bushe, PhD, has been an organization and leadership development consultant for more than thirty years. His clients have included Shell Oil, General Motors, Business Objects, BC Telecom, and the Canadian government. Through his company, Clear Learning Ltd., Bushe licenses others to deliver his leadership development programs worldwide. A professor of leadership and organizational change in the Segal Graduate School of Business at Simon Fraser University, he is coauthor of "Parallel Learning Structures." His award-winning work has appeared in the Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, Organization Development Journal, and many contemporary organization development textbooks. Bushe can be reached at bushe@sfu.ca.

Gervase R. Bushe, PhD, has been an organization and leadership development consultant for more than thirty years. His clients have included Shell Oil, General Motors, Business Objects, BC Telecom, and the Canadian government. Through his company, Clear Learning Ltd., Bushe licenses others to deliver his leadership development programs worldwide. A professor of leadership and organizational change in the Segal Graduate School of Business at Simon Fraser University, he is coauthor of Parallel Learning Structures. His award-winning work has appeared in the Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, Organization Development Journal, and many contemporary organization development textbooks. Bushe can be reached at bushe@sfu.ca.

From the Back Cover

Cut through the "mush" to sustain and improve the quality of partnerships at work.

What happened to that win-win partnership with your boss, colleague, or direct report that suddenly dissolved into mistrust and suspicion? Despite your best intentions, how did hidden agendas, unresolved conflicts, and miscommunication get in the way?

With new research, fresh insight, and up-to-date examples of what it takes to collaboratively organize and sustain healthy relationships at work, this newly revised edition of CLEAR LEADERSHIP tackles these issues head-on. Building on the powerful concepts that made the first edition such a success, Gervase Bushe explains why even the most promising partnerships get derailed and what you can do about it.

From the Inside Flap

Unspoken assumptions, buried resentments, crucial issues never discussed. Such "interpersonal mush," as author Gervase Bushe describes it, dominates today's workplace. It hampers honest communication, creates misunderstanding, and prevents teams, work groups, and entire organizations from realizing the promise of sustained partnership and collaboration. Answering the call for a proven set of skills to help cut through the mush, this new edition of CLEAR LEADERSHIP brings up to date the tools and techniques needed to build sustaining partnerships and make our collaborative organizations work: self-awareness, experience-based communication, authenticity, truth telling, and real conversastions.

In this update, Bushe has added fresh research, dozens of current workplace examples, and new chapters that examine what it takes to create partnerships in which people feel equally responsible for the success of joint projects or processes. Included now aare twenty-three skill-building exercises, specific tools and techniques that bring clarity and contemporary applications to the original model, and personal stories of how individuals at all levels of the organization have put the principles and practices of clear leadership into action and achieved outstanding results. Highlighting the latest research and practical experience in the field, Bushe provides new thinking on learning conversations, creating cultures of clarity, and the concepts of "parking reactions" and confronting as inquiry.

Edition details

• Publisher: UNKNO
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0891062270
• ISBN 13: 9780891062271
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320