The Art and Adventure of Leadership
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Rob Asghar. The Art and Adventure of Leadership
PRAISE FOR THE ART AND ADVENTURE OF LEADERSHIP
DEDICATION
FOREWORD
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
1. REDEFINING SUCCESS AND FAILURE
Leadership as Playing with Fire – The Very Fire of the Gods
It Depends: The Contingency Principle in Action
Why we Must View Leadership Through the Lens of Complexity
2. WHY SUCCESS REQUIRES THE RIGHT KIND OF APPETITE FOR THE FIGHT
If You Do Want to Do Leadership …
Reality Check: Leadership as 70 Percent Trivia
Staying Out of Prison, and Other Benefits of a Healthy Expression of Leadership Skill
Management Versus Leadership
3. ACCEPTING AND EXERCISING MORAL RESPONSIBILITY. THE ABILITY TO ACCEPT – AND MANAGE – RESPONSIBILITY FOR DIFFICULT ETHICAL CHOICES
When There is No Win-Win Scenario: The Painful Moral Calculus of Failure
The Ability to Compromise – And to be Compromised
A Compromised Saint: The Dilemma of Thomas More
4. AVOIDING GROUPTHINK, MASS MEDIA, AND THE FAILURES OF THE HERD
Failures Caused by Groupthink
Why Leaders Don't Follow the News: Ignoring Today's Trivia in Search of Timeless Truths
Information Versus Gossip
Media Myopia is Most Visible in Hindsight
5. A TIMELESS READING LIST THAT LEADS TO TIMELY SUCCESS
Beware the Trade Press
A Daily Dose of Discipline
6. WHEN FAILURE IS BAKED INTO THE SYSTEM
How Democratic Governance Avoids and Prevents Failure
Failure and Disillusionment
Defending Democracy
Where Good Decisions are Born
Democracy Works as Science Works
A Brazen Prediction About Democracy's Success
7. BANKRUPTCY AND FAILURE AS THE GREAT AMERICAN PASTIME. A LAND OF SECOND CHANCES
The Human Consequences of Fear of Failure
CONCLUSION REDEEMING FAILURE
NOTE FROM THE WRITER
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
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Dedicated with love to Grace Gabe and Kathryn Sample
As Warren wrote years ago, “The process of becoming a leader is…similar to becoming a fully integrated human being.” He and Steve believed that leaders develop through their life experiences and emerge ever stronger – ready and equipped to take on the true responsibilities of leadership.
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Warren was an acclaimed author and public intellectual, and I was an electrical engineer by trade and an administrator by profession; but he and I would both look back on our 16 years of coteaching that course as a true highlight of our careers. Our students were bright eyed, eager, and passionate. They challenged us, they challenged each other, and they challenged our impressive list of top leaders from around the world who visited as guest speakers.
The experience was intensely human and intensely productive. And many alumni of the class told us something that surprised us. One of the most educational aspects of the class, they said, was a certain dynamic tension resulting from the confrontation of Warren's ideas and my own.
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