Leadership Can Be Taught: A Bold Approach for a Complex World

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Leadership Can Be Taught: A Bold Approach for a Complex World
by Sharon Daloz Parks
from Harvard Business School Press

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• Leadership for Today's World
  Every executive, educational leader, and public servant should read Park's book on leadership. Charisma does little to inspire and understand a workforce desperately in need of sensitive and humane leaders. Leading in challenging times requires creative responses and new images and metaphors for leadership.

• Leadership as artistry: Great insights how PAL is taught, and how to think differently about leadership
  First, let me disclose my bias - I took PAL-164 (the sequel to PAL-101) with Heifetz, which I thought was great. I also read both of Heifetz's books (required for the course) and also In Over Our Heads, by Robert Kegan, which Parks discusses in her book. So I found Parks' book to be valuable in that it helped me get even more out of the course. I especially like the recounting and analysis of class conversations and interviews with Alumni of the course. I also like that she integrates with other of others... more info

• Leadership For The New Commons
  I love some of Sharon Daloz Parks' thinking. I really think she is helping define a new way of looking at leadership in a world of flatter hierarchies and lack of deference to authority, where people expect to 'lead their own lives' increasingly, rather than take their lead from outside.
  I love a phrase she coined a while back - 'Leadership for the New Commons' - building on Laurence Lessig's work on defining the new open world of free intellectual exchange and lack of hierarchy that characterises how... more info

• Another GREAT TAKE on Heifetz & Adaptive Leadership
  Ron Heifetz is clearly one of the seminal leadership scholars, practitioners, and teachers in the field today. This superb volume, by Sharon Daloz Parks, takes off from where his two previous books ("Leadership Without Easy Answers" and "Leadership On the Line") leave off. "Leadership Can be Taught" takes its readers through Heifetz's Harvard Business School course "PAL 101--Exercising Leadership: Mobilizing Group Resources."
  For those of us who have studied Heifetz's two previous books and taken... more info

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