Failure of Nerve, A: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix

Friedman, Edwin H. / Margaret Treadwell & Edward Beal, eds.

ISBN 10: 159627042X / ISBN 13: 9781596270428

Published by Seabury Bks., 2007

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9" tall; 260 pages including index; a bit of wear to corners of cover.

Seller Inventory # 182223

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Failure of Nerve, A: Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix
• Publisher: Seabury Bks.
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 159627042X
• ISBN 13: 9781596270428
• Binding: Soft Cover
• Condition: vg+
• Book Type: Paperback
• Seller catalogs:
  • Sociology / Anthropology,Religious

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Synopsis

Ten years after his death, Edwin Friedman's insights into leadership are more urgently needed than ever. He was the first to tell us that all organizations have personalities, like families, and to apply the insights of family therapy to churches and synagogues, rectors and rabbis, politicians and teachers.

Failure of Nerve is essential reading for all leaders, be they parents or presidents, corporate executives or educators, religious superiors or coaches, healers or generals, managers or clergy. Friedman's insights about our regressed, seatbelt society, oriented toward safety rather than adventure, help explain the sabotage that leaders constantly face today.

Suspicious of the quick fixes and instant solutions that sweep through our culture only to give way to the next fad, he argues for strength and self-differentiation as the marks of true leadership. His formula for success is more maturity, not more data; stamina, not technique; and personal responsibility, not empathy.

This book was unfinished at the time of Friedman's death, and originally published in a limited edition. This new edition makes his life-changing insights and challenges available to a new generation of readers.

About the Author

Edwin H. Friedman was an ordained rabbi and practicing family therapist. His ground-breaking volume Generation to Generation, which exposed the connections between emotional process at home and at work in religious, educational, therapeutic, and business systems, has become a modern classic. In great demand as a consultant and public speaker throughout the country, he lived in Washington DC. He died in 1996.