Unnatural leadership
Subtitle: going against intuition and experience to develop ten new leadership instincts
By: David L. Dotlich, Peter C. Cairo ; foreword by Stephen H. Rhinesmith
Contributors: Cairo, Peter C., 1948-
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: The Jossey-Bass business & management series; Jossey-Bass business & management series
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 2002
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780787961817
Subjects: Leadership; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Description: "Unnatural Leadership debunks the common notion of the natural leader as a flawless figure. The book describes the truth about being a real leader in a business environment turned upside down by e-commerce, diversity, security concerns, globalization, and matrix structures. Drawing on personal experience working with successful leaders in top-tier companies throughout the world, Dotlich and Cairo identify a style of leadership used by those who succeed in complicated business and people situations, a style that maximizes a leader's strengths and acknowledges weaknesses."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-255) and index.

Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. The importance of unnatural leadership; title: Ten unnatural acts : exercise, assessing your unnatural leadership; title: Adapting to an increasingly unnatural environment : exercise, breaking the rules of natural leadership; title: Resistance factors : exercise, assessing your resistance to unnatural leadership; title: pt. 2. Personal challenges for the unnatural leader; title: Refuse to be a prisoner of experience : exercise, refuse to be a prisoner of experience; title: Expose your vulnerabilities : exercise, exposing your vulnerabilities; title: Acknowledge the shadow side : exercise, acknowledging your shadow side; title: Develop a right-versus-right decision-making mentality : exercise, a tool for developing an unnatural decision-making mentality; title: pt. 3. Leading teams as an unnatural leader; title: Create teams that create discomfort : exercise, create teams that create discomfort; title: Trust others before they earn it : exercise, trusting others before they earn it; title: Coach and teach rather than lead and inspire : exercise, coaching and teaching rather than leading and inspiring; title: pt. 4. Leading the organization as an unnatural leader; title: Connect instead of create : exercise, connecting instead of creating; title: Give up some control : exercise, giving up some control; title: Challenge the conventional wisdom : exercise, challenging the conventional wisdom; title: Giving yourself unnatural options.