Genership 1.0
Subtitle: beyond leadership toward liberating the creative soul
By: David Castro
Publisher: Arch Street Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Bryn Mawr
Language: eng
Number of pages: 365
ISBN-13: 9781938798016
Subjects: Leadership
Description: "This groundbreaking book by David Castro, President and CEO of the Institute for Leadership Education, promises t transform thinking within organizations and communities about the fundamental skills required for human progress. David - the recipient of Kellogg, Eishenhower and Ashoka Fellowships - explores the evolution of leadership skills within effective organizations, recognizing that leadership processes have been evolving into difference and more promising practices. To capture this trend, David introduces a new concept and a new word, genership, which describes the skill set required for the practice of creativity in groups. Distinguishing genership from its ancestor practices, David unmasks a series of highly dysfunctional fallacies underlying the more traditional concept of leadership. These include the Messiah Fallacy, the Hero Fallacy and the Fallacy of Leadership Nostalgia, a false triumvirate severely suppressing human creativity. David posits that human progress will ultimately require organizations to transcend leadership in favor of genership as a core practice within creative communities. With vivid and relevant examples, he surveys the fundamental capacities underlying genership, contrasting them with traditional leadership processes. Genership provides a practical guide to transcending outdated ways associated with leadership cultures while embracing the emergent and more effective practices described in genership"--Page four of book cover
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (page 354)
Table of contents: title: Prologue : beyond leadership; title: The cornerstone : listening as the foundation of all creative work; title: CoThinking : shaping reality by thinking together; title: CoVisioning : the future made, not predicted; title: Relationships : fueling creativity by giving life to emotion and motivation; title: Conflict, force and violence, and learning : using conflict as a wellspring for innovation; title: Systems thinking : engaging widespread forces of change in what we create; title: Creativity : the soul of genership; title: Genership group dynamics : we are who we have been waiting for; title: Genership : arriving where we started ... and creating something new