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The leader's edge : six creative competencies for navigating complex challenges / Charles J. Palus and David M. Horth.

By: Contributor(s): Publication details: San Francisco : Jossey-Bass ; [Greensboro, N.C.] : Center for Creative Leadership, c2002.Edition: 1st edDescription: xx, 277 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780787909994 (hbk.)
  • 0787909998 (hbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 658.4092 PAL 2002
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 1. Paying Attention -- Shifting Between Modes of Attention -- Understanding Left-Mode and Right-Mode Attention -- Using Kinesthetic Attention -- Paying Attention to Negative Space -- Asking Powerful Questions -- Developing the Competency of Paying Attention -- Cautions -- 2. Personalizing -- Learning Begins with the Personal Connection -- Practicing Assessment for Development (A4D) -- Practicing Exploration for Development (E4D) -- Tapping Into Your Passion -- Knowing When to Let Go of Your Personal Side -- Developing the Competency of Personalizing -- Cautions -- 3. Imaging -- Making Imagination Tangible -- Seeing Organizational Vision in a New Light -- Exploring Scenarios -- Making and Using Metaphors -- Making Poetry in the Face of Complexity -- Developing the Competency of Imaging -- Cautions -- 4. Serious Play -- Play Enhances Learning amid Turbulence -- Play Is a Community Activity -- Play Is the Heart of Science and Technology -- Developing the Competency of Serious Play -- Cautions -- 5. Co-Inquiry -- Building Creative Leadership Communities -- Creating Spaces for Group Work -- Conducting Dialogue -- Putting Something in the Middle -- Crossing Boundaries -- Developing the Competency of Co-Inquiry -- Cautions -- 6. Crafting -- Thinking in Wholes -- Crafting Decisions -- Building Scaffolds for Learning -- Developing Leadership as Science and as Art -- Learning from Artists -- Developing the Competency of Crafting -- Cautions -- 7. Creative Leadership in Action -- Case Study 1: Task Force Collaboration -- Case Study 2: Leadership in New Media -- Case Study 3: Individual Leadership Coaching -- Case Study 4: Creative Product Innovation -- Case Study 5: Executive Interdependence -- Case Study 6: Inventing a New Manufacturing Paradigm -- Appendix A: The Leading Creatively Program -- Appendix B: Our Research Methods -- Appendix C: A Reflective Assessment of -- C2 Competencies: Competencies for Making -- Sense of Complex Challenges -- Appendix D: The ORC Star-Mapping Process -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Center for Creative Leadership.
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"A joint publication of the Jossey-Bass business & management series and the Center for Creative Leadership.".

Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-263) and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1. Paying Attention -- Shifting Between Modes of Attention -- Understanding Left-Mode and Right-Mode Attention -- Using Kinesthetic Attention -- Paying Attention to Negative Space -- Asking Powerful Questions -- Developing the Competency of Paying Attention -- Cautions -- 2. Personalizing -- Learning Begins with the Personal Connection -- Practicing Assessment for Development (A4D) -- Practicing Exploration for Development (E4D) -- Tapping Into Your Passion -- Knowing When to Let Go of Your Personal Side -- Developing the Competency of Personalizing -- Cautions -- 3. Imaging -- Making Imagination Tangible -- Seeing Organizational Vision in a New Light -- Exploring Scenarios -- Making and Using Metaphors -- Making Poetry in the Face of Complexity -- Developing the Competency of Imaging -- Cautions -- 4. Serious Play -- Play Enhances Learning amid Turbulence -- Play Is a Community Activity -- Play Is the Heart of Science and Technology -- Developing the Competency of Serious Play -- Cautions -- 5. Co-Inquiry -- Building Creative Leadership Communities -- Creating Spaces for Group Work -- Conducting Dialogue -- Putting Something in the Middle -- Crossing Boundaries -- Developing the Competency of Co-Inquiry -- Cautions -- 6. Crafting -- Thinking in Wholes -- Crafting Decisions -- Building Scaffolds for Learning -- Developing Leadership as Science and as Art -- Learning from Artists -- Developing the Competency of Crafting -- Cautions -- 7. Creative Leadership in Action -- Case Study 1: Task Force Collaboration -- Case Study 2: Leadership in New Media -- Case Study 3: Individual Leadership Coaching -- Case Study 4: Creative Product Innovation -- Case Study 5: Executive Interdependence -- Case Study 6: Inventing a New Manufacturing Paradigm -- Appendix A: The Leading Creatively Program -- Appendix B: Our Research Methods -- Appendix C: A Reflective Assessment of -- C2 Competencies: Competencies for Making -- Sense of Complex Challenges -- Appendix D: The ORC Star-Mapping Process -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Center for Creative Leadership.