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

Bushe, Gervase R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 089106382X ISBN 13: 9780891063827

Publisher: Nicholas Brealey, 2010

Synopsis

Gervase R. Bushe one of HR Magazine's Most Influential Thinkers 2016-2020

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.
Chosen by Life Changers as one of the 100 books that changed my life.

About this title

Book Description:

A wise teacher, Bushe leads us deep into the mush that constitutes so much of the non-communication of organizational life and gives us the knowledge and practical tools we can use to break through the mush and create the clarity essential to effective leadership.

From the Publisher:

Hidden agendas, unresolved conflicts, crucial issues never discussed... What the author calls interpersonal mush dominates the workplace and hampers honest communication, creates misunderstanding, and prevents teams, workgroups, and entire organizations from realizing the promise of sustained partnerships and collaboration. CLEAR LEADERSHIP tackles these issues head-on, providing specific tools and techniques as well as personal stories of individuals up and down the corporate ladder who have put the principles and practices of clear leadership--beginning with interpersonal clarity and honesty--into action and thereby achieved outstanding results for themselves and their organizations.

Expanding on the powerful concepts that made the first edition a success, this fully revised edition looks beyond what it takes to lead performance, revealing the clear leadership skills required to lead organizational learning while doing. CLEAR LEADERSHIP now includes 23 skill-building exercises, dozens of case examples, and fresh thinking on learning conversations, building cultures of clarity, and the concepts of "parking reactions" and confrontation as inquiry. Completely new chapters add a sharper focus on ways the original model of the four selves--the Aware Self, the Curious Self, the Appreciative Self, and the Descriptive Self--can help us all learn from our collective experiences, avoid miscummunication and cut through the mush, and achieve clarity, full engagement, and sustained collaboration.

About this edition

• Publisher: Nicholas Brealey
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 089106382X
• ISBN 13: 9780891063827
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 228