Title: Unnatural leadership : going against intuition and experience to develop ten new leadership instincts /
Authors: Dotlich, David L. 1950-; Cairo, Peter C., 1948-
Publisher: Jossey-Bass,
Year: 2002
Subjects: Leadership
Contents: pt. 1. The importance of unnatural leadership. Ten unnatural acts : exercise, assessing your unnatural leadership. Adapting to an increasingly unnatural environment : exercise, breaking the rules of natural leadership. Resistance factors : exercise, assessing your resistance to unnatural leadership -- pt. 2. Personal challenges for the unnatural leader. Refuse to be a prisoner of experience : exercise, refuse to be a prisoner of experience. Expose your vulnerabilities : exercise, exposing your vulnerabilities. Acknowledge the shadow side : exercise, acknowledging your shadow side. Develop a right-versus-right decision-making mentality : exercise, a tool for developing an unnatural decision-making mentality -- pt. 3. Leading teams as an unnatural leader. Create teams that create discomfort : exercise, create teams that create discomfort. Trust others before they earn it : exercise, trusting others before they earn it. Coach and teach rather than lead and inspire : exercise, coaching and teaching rather than leading and inspiring -- pt. 4. Leading the organization as an unnatural leader. Connect instead of create : exercise, connecting instead of creating. Give up some control : exercise, giving up some control. Challenge the conventional wisdom : exercise, challenging the conventional wisdom. Giving yourself unnatural options.