Building the Bridge As You Walk On It
Subtitle: A Guide for Leading Change
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: April 12, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780787971120
Subjects: Management & management techniques; Organization Theory; Organizational Behavior In Business; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Business/Economics; Careers - General; Leadership; Business & Economics / Leadership; Executive ability; Organizational change
First sentence: How do we create extraordinarily positive organizations?
Description: "Building the Bridge As You Walk On It tells the personal stories of people who have embraced deep change and inspired author Robert Quinn to take his concept one step further and develop a new model of leadership - "the fundamental state of leadership". The exploration of this transformative state is at the very heart of the book. Quinn shows how anyone can enter the fundamental state of leadership by engaging in the eight practices that center on the theme of ever-increasing integrity - reflective action, authentic engagement, appreciative inquiry, grounded vision, adaptive confidence, detached interdependence, responsible freedom, and tough love.

After each chapter, Quinn challenges you to assess yourself with respect to each practice and to formulate a strategy for personal growth." "Building the Bridge As You Walk On It emphasizes that developing leaders is not a simple matter of imparting a set of concepts or reaching into a toolkit of strategies and behaviors. To become a leader requires engagement in the process of deep change in oneself, thereby inviting others to do the same. Once this process is in motion, we truly begin to transform one another to become the type of leaders we strive to be."--BOOK JACKET.