Leading-Edge Thought From the World's Best Business Minds "A one-stop shopping guide that shows how leaders can be successful in the year 2000 and beyond."
--American Society for Training and Development
Discover what Stephen Covey, Ken Blanchard, Peter Senge, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, and other business-world luminaries have to say about the direction of leadership for the future. The Drucker Foundation brings together the best business minds in more than 30 never-before-published essays, each one offering a special perspective on leadership and a unique glimpse into the future.
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From Booklist
The Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management was founded in 1990, with its mission to "help the social sector achieve excellence in performance and build responsible leadership." Hesselbein, former CEO of Girl Scouts of the USA and now head of the Drucker Foundation, and her coeditors have attracted an impressive roster of contributors. Thirty-seven notables, such as Peter Senge, Charles Handy, Rosabeth Kanter, and Stephen Covey, offer their views on leadership, examining what the organization of the future will be like and how leaders might be developed. Though they target present and potential leaders of so-called third-sector organizations, these 31 previously unpublished essays will be of definite interest to those in government and the corporate world as well. David Rouse
"The Leader of the Future is a thought-provoking collection of essays that gets readers up to speed on the most important trAnds facing today's leaders. It's a one-stop shopping guide that shows how leaders can be successful in the year 2000 and beyond." (American Society for Training and Development)
"This anthology of insightful essays, compiled by the Drucker Foundation, serves as a compass for leadership in the 21st century." (American Management Association)
A book about the future quality of our lives, our businesses, our organizations, our societyand the leadership required to move us into the exciting unknown. DLC: Leadership.
From the Author
The Leader of the Future
For over twenty years, I’ve worked with organizations of all kinds as a leadership development consultant and executive coach. Throughout this time, I’ve realized that it doesn’t matter what kind of organization you work in; you will find opportunities to learn about leadership from all organizations--public, private, and nonprofit.
In The Leader of the Future, my co-editors, Frances Hesselbein and Dick Beckhard, and I have gathered together acclaimed authors who offer their unique perspectives on leadership. These authors demonstrate how leaders emerge from within organizations, how leadership roles are defined, and how leaders inspire hope and purpose. Peter Drucker begins the book by breaking the myth that only a lucky few can decipher the leadership code by pointing out and explaining two interesting aspects of leadership: first, that leadership must and can be learned; and second, that there isn’t one specific style, trait, or personality that determines successful leadership.
The Leader of the Future is a book about the future quality of our lives, our businesses, our organizations, and our society, and the leadership required to move us into the exciting unknown. In it, we’ve gathered the best ideas of the best authors, practitioners, consultants, academics, and philosophers to help today’s executives and managers fathom the future of leadership.
--Marshall Goldsmith
From the Inside Flap
The Leader of the Future is a compendium of new thought. It is a book about the future quality of our lives, our businesses, our organizations, our society, and the leadership required to move us into the exciting unknown.
This book demonstrates:
- How leaders emerge, indepEndent of official rank or status, from within organizations that nurture dispersed authority
- How leadership roles are defined for those willing to assume responsibility for fostering change though leading the learning organization
- How leaders motivate by turning the organizational pyramid upside downHow partnering has become a primary skill of the world-class leader
- How to break the myth that only a lucky few can ever decipher the leadership codeHow the leader of the next millennium will create a culture based on principles, all within a turbulent world
How to inspire hope and purpose in those who want direction and wish to contribute
All the authors define their own scenarios, as different and compelling as their individual records of success, and each powerfully relevant to the future of business, government, and the nonprofit sectors.
From the Back Cover
The prestigious Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management brings together a peerless selection of leaders, respected executives, best-selling authors, and world-renowned consultants who share their visions of the future of leadership. The Leader of the Future is a compAndium of new thought, a book about the future quality of our lives, our businesses, our organizations, our society and the leadership required to move us into the organization of the future.
From the Back Cover
The prestigious Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management brings together a peerless selection of leaders, respected executives, best-selling authors, and world-renowned consultants who share their visions of the future of leadership. The Leader of the Future is a compAndium of new thought, a book about the future quality of our lives, our businesses, our organizations, our society and the leadership required to move us into the organization of the future. |
