Transformational leadership
Subtitle: conversations with the Leadership Conference of Women Religious
By: edited by Annmarie Sanders, IHM
Contributors: Leadership Conference of Women Religious of the United States
Publisher: Orbis Books
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Maryknoll, New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9781626981386
Subjects: Christian leadership; Contemplation; Women clergy; Leadership chrétien; Clergé féminin; Leadership Conference of Women Religious of the United States
Description: In 2009, the Leadership Conference of Women Religious (LCWR)--an organization representing 300 orders of sisters in the United States--suddenly gained wide attention following a critical doctrinal assessment issued by the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. Many became interested in the way the LCWR and its members exercised leadership. One of their members described it as "transformational leadership"--a "way-of-being-in-in-the-world." To better understand this way of leadership, LCWR regularly conducts interviews with some of the most engaging and passionate of contemporary thinkers. In this volume of interviews, eighteen theologians, psychologists, educators, and religious leaders from various fields and disciplines share their wisdom about a way of leadership able to meet the deep challenges of today's world. Transformational Leadership offers the opportunity to learn from notables such as Walter Brueggemann, Judy Cannato, Joan Chittister, OSB, Constance FitzGerald, OCD, Donald Goergen, OP, Marty Linsky, and Margaret Wheatley. Transformational Leadership, although originally addressed to American Catholic sisters, provides thoughtful and practical suggestions for living a Gospel-centered life and its unique collection of personalities and insight makes it of interest to all men and women seeking to live and lead with purpose and depth. (Publisher).
Table of contents: title: The role of contemplation in leadership  -- Marcia Allen, CSJ; title: Pursuing our dreams in times of darkness  -- Constance FitzGerald, OCD; title: Integrating contemplative practices into leadership  -- Nancy Sylvester, IHM; title: Fostering and nuturing an interior life  -- Donald Goergen, OP; title: Living a discerning life in a complex harsh world  -- Margaret Wheatley; title: The power and potential of prophetic communities  -- Joan Chittister, OSB; title: Prophetic imagination : a call to leaders  -- Walter Brueggeman; title: Articulating a vision for the future  -- Nancy Schreck, OSF; title: Leadership and the common good  -- Lynn Jarrell, OSU; title: Leaders as agents of transformation  -- Judy Cannato; title: Leaders' role in encouraging members to dream and vision their future  -- Lynn Levo, CSJ; title: Unearthing the potential of uncertain times  -- Donna M. Fyffe; title: Reimagining leadership  -- Luisa M. Saffiotti; title: Leading throu a time of change  -- Ray Dlugos, CSA; title: Adaptive leadership  -- Marty Linsky; title: Leading in the midst of polarization  -- Andra Medea; title: Transformative leadership in a time of public crisis  -- Breege O'Neill, RSM; title: Formering leaders for these changing times -- Eileen Campbell, RSM, and Nancy Schreck, OSF.