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An Educational Bridge for Leaders - 60 brief passages on leadership through history (Paperback)
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An Educational Bridge for Leaders - 60 brief passages on leadership through history (Paperback)
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This book is not a leadership manual, but an effort to remedy the
inadequacies of leadership manuals. Peter Drucker once referred to
Xenophon's The Education of Cyrus as "Still the greatest book on
leadership," and he made a very good point. Over many years, I have
become convinced that a book like Orwell's Homage to Catalonia, on
his experiences in the Spanish Civil War, or Simon Schama's
Citizens, on the French Revolution, will teach you more about human
nature and motivation, human perversity and potential, and
therefore leadership, than any of the thousands of business
leadership texts that flood our bookstores and libraries. That is
why I believe that reading sixty short excerpts from history and
classic literature will be of immense benefit to people who lead.
In a sense, "An Educational Bridge for Leaders" is an attempt to
put my money where my mouth is. After a decade of coaching leaders
in business and government organisations along lines that clearly
run against the grain of much that is being purveyed in the field
of leadership development, I have found a chasm in the lives of
most leaders I work with that I believe needs bridging. This chasm
lies between them and the well-rounded education that alone will
enable them to become effective leaders. This book does not pretend
to be a multi-lane suspension bridge across to the Promised Land, a
convenient, once and for all 'solution' to the 'problem' of their
education, but merely a modest, even tenuous, rope-bridge that will
help them get across the chasm to where the on-going educational
development essential to effective leadership can be pursued. The
book can be read cover to cover, or by dipping in wherever, or by
following a daily reading plan. There are sixty pieces drawn from
classic literature and history, and also from contemporary authors,
providing one reading a day for about two months. Everyone should
be able to find the five minutes a day for the reading, but
naturally, re-reading and reflection on the texts will pay
additional dividends. Each piece is a door into another world,
which you may wish to explore in the book from which it is taken,
or in related books. Christopher Lasch told us long ago that
"denial of the past, superficial and optimistic, proves on closer
analysis to embody the despair of a society that cannot face the
future." Leadership is about building a better future, and we can't
do that without a firm grasp of the past. "An Educational Bridge
for Leaders" is indispensible if we are to overcome the crisis of
leadership afflicting our civilisation.
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