Powerful Leadership

Powerful Leadership
How to Unleash the Power in Others & Simplify Your Own Life
Eric G. Stephan, R. Wayne Pace

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Description
Transform your leadership style—and your results! You're a manager. You're working harder, longer, to achieve the same results. You're trying to help your people do their best work, but it's just not happening.

The harder you manage, the more frustrated you become-and your people feel the same way. You're tired of bureaucracy, deeply skeptical of today's management mantras. But deep down inside, you know there must be a better way. Powerful Leadership is for you. In this course, two of the world's leading experts on organizational leadership identify seven key principles that will allow you to manage more effectively and productively—and simplify your life.

Drawing on over 40 years of research, they introduce easy-to-use techniques for freeing people from organizational constraints, redirecting employees who aren't performing, promoting innovation—and getting results. Is it possible to meet your management goals and make the workplace a personally rewarding place to be? Yes. Absolutely. And Powerful Leadership will show you how. No more "overmanaging":

Lighter management techniques that simply work better
How to liberate yourself by liberating your employee
Practical techniques for supporting creative thinking and innovation
Everyone wants innovation: here's how to get it Helper, Partner, Confidant: From "boss" to " cohort"
Creating a new order of unity for profound change
Beyond "delegation" and "motivation"
The new "4 E's" of involvement: envisioning, enabling, energizing, and ensuring results
From criticism to redirection Getting the changes you want-without the alienation you can't afford
Restoring trust and good will throughout the organization
"Taking the high road" in your workplace and personal decisions
"The peaceful path": Finding the calm center that will help you handle anything
A plan for strengthening your mental and physical well-being.
Innovative, creative and effective leadership techniques include: Today's seven core principles of management success
Improving your effectiveness while you simplify your life
Eliminating the killer stress that accompanies traditional approaches to management
"Lighter" management techniques that deliver breakthrough results
The more you manage your employees, the more dependent on you they become—and the tougher your life becomes.

It's the key paradox of management—and Powerful Leadership helps you cut right through it. Eric Stephan and R. Wayne Pace distill seven powerful leadership principles, presenting a natural, powerful, and complete approach to management that will unleash your employees' potential—and yours!

Level: Intermediate
ISBN: 0130668362
ISBN-13: 9780130668363
Format: Hardcover, 288pp
Publisher: Pearson Education
Pub date: 2002

Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Proclamation on Leadership
Chapter 1. Houston, We Have A Problem!
Out-of-Sync Systems
Living in a Quandary
Confusion at Work
Adding Misery to Confusion at Work
Ripping Faces Off People
Managers Have Huge Blind Spots
Jaundiced Eyes
Old Management Logic
An Old View Restated
Teams: the Panacea?
A New View Restated
Synergistic Ignorance
Cheer Up!
Yes, Houston, We Do Have a Problem
Houston, We Have a Solution

Chapter 2. The First Essential Change: Free People to Take the Lead
Let Them Take the Lead
Stop Strangling People
Avoid Sheep Dog Management
The Work System Is a Major Constraint!
Creating a Topless Paradigm
Everyone Is a Genius at Something
The Road to Freedom is Filled with Potholes
The Two-Million-Dollar Listener
Freedom First
I Hate This Place
I Love Working Here
What Comes Next?

Chapter 3. The Second Essential Change: Promote Creativity, Innovation, and Fun at Work
What is Creativity?
Does Creativity Lead to More Fun at Work?
Helping Others Find Joy in Their Work
It's Okay to Laugh at Work!
Jump Out of the Box; Pop a Cork
How Does a Leader Support Creativity, Innovation, and Fun?
Everyone Has a Million-Dollar Idea
Three Alternatives for Identifying Innovations
Stimulating Creativity in the Workplace
Buying a Hotel in 15 Minutes!
Rules 23 and 24
Toyota's Approach to Creativity
Two Magical Questions
Left Brain, Right Brain, Broccoli Brain
Test Your Creativity
Improving Overall Organizational Creativity
Fostering a Creative Climate
Using Creativity in Business Processes
Five Great Creativity Suggestions
Unlocking Your Own Creativity
One Final Word about Creative Thinking
A Look Ahead

Chapter 4. The Third Essential Change: Switch from Boss to Cohort
A Cohort
Cohorts in Education
User-Friendly Managers
I Return to Die
Treating Others as Cohorts
Its Natural Others Include Suppliers, Customers, and Your Boss!
The Customer Is Cohort How to Manage Your Boss
I Don't Want to Be Your Parent Anymore
If You Push Hard, They Will Push Back
A Cohort Walks Around and Inquires
A Less Complex Form of Leading People
Cohort Leadership
How to Build Cohorts in Organizations
Cohort Relationships Are Adult to Adult
From Boss to Cohort
A Look Ahead

Chapter 5. The Fourth Essential
Change: Master the 4E's of Involvement
Why Master the 4E's of Involvement?
The Meaning of Performance
Firms Spend Billions to Fire Up Workers-With Little Luck
The Involvement Formula
E1=Envisioning
E2=Enabling Empowerment Is Out, Enabling Is In
Leaders Enable Workers, Managers Empower Them
An Old Oriental Parable
E3=Energizing Leading with Commitment
Leading with Compassion
Leading with Encouragement
E4=Ensuring Results
The Return and Report
Meeting Integrating the Four E's of Involvement
Why Inviting People to Be Involved Is Important
A Look Ahead

Chapter 6. The Fifth Essential Change: Stop Criticizing and Start Applauding
The Process of Redirection
When Do You Think You Can Have It Fixed?
Stop Punishing People
Will Someone Please Authenticate Me?
From Redirecting to Applause in Four Easy Steps
Reality Therapy
Avoid Undermining Employees and Cohorts
Confrontational Anticipation Scares the Heck Out of People
Praising Is Good, but Applauding Is Better
What Is the Most Powerful Workplace Motivator?
End the Everyday Put-down A Look Ahead

Chapter 7. The Sixth Essential Change: Take the High Road What Are Best Policies?
Where Do Ethical Standards and Guidelines Come From?
Require Everyone to Violate the Principle
Why Have Explicit Ethical Principles?
Manipulation Is Unethical
What Ethical Principles Should be Included in Your Code?
Testing Your Decisions
Ethics and the Peaceful Mind
Does Ethical Behavior Pay?
Take the Highest Road
Five Traits of a Good Person
An Ethical Bill of Rights
A Look Ahead

Chapter 8. The Seventh Essential Change: Stay On the Peaceful Path
Getting Hit at Work Can You Survive?
How Do You Take a Hit and Feel Calm?
Six Strategies for Staying on the Peaceful Path
Start the Morning Peacefully
Control the Way You React to People
Avoid Allowing Things to Control You
Choose To Do Only Important Things
Strengthen Yourself Each Day
Create Balance in Your Life
Are You on the Peaceful Path?
Ask Yourself These Questions A Look Ahead

Chapter 9. Where Are You as a Powerful Leader?
How Are You Doing as a Powerful Leader?
A Simple Quiz
Scoring Instructions
How to Change A Short Planning Exercise
What Do You Really Need to Change?
Using Mental Practice and Idealization
Encouraging Change in Others
Fast Forward to the Basics
Return and Report

Appendix A. Powerful Leaders on Powerful Leadership
Appendix B. Essential Insights
References
Index

Book authors
Eric G. Stephan is Professor of Organizational Leadership and Strategy in the Marriott School of Management, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah. He has researched, taught, and consulted on effective leadership techniques for over 20 years. His courses include The Complete Speaker and The Perfect Leader. Dr. Stephan holds a Ph.D. from the University of Utah. R.

Wayne Pace is Professor Emeritus of Organizational Leadership in the Marriott School of management, Brigham Young university, Provo, Utah, and adjunct scholar in the Workplace Research, Learning, and Development (WoRLD) Institute of the School of Social and Workplace Development, Southern Cross University, Lismore, NWS, Australia. A specialist in human resource development, organizational communication, and individual and organizational change, his Prentice Hall courses include Organizational Communication, Third Edition and Human Resource Development: The Field. He serves a corporate advisor to QuicKnowledge.com and Anchor Point Institute, leading firms in the training and development industry. Dr. Pace holds a Ph.D. from Purdue University and an MS from Brigham Young University.

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