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Enlightened
Leadership - Getting to the Heart of Change
Simon & Schuster, 1994 (265 pages in paperback)
Authors Ed Oakly
and Doug Krug
ISBN 0-671-86675-3
Oakly and Krug provide an understandable and clear
definition of what they term "Enlightened Leadership." This type of
leadership approach attempts to deal with real underlying problems within
organizations rather than their symptoms. It is founded on an approach that
leaders must first or concurrently deal with the "mindset" or spirit
of their people as well as changing processes or structures. Without positively
dealing with attitudes and thinking styles among the organization all efforts
of changing structures, systems or processes will meet great resistance and
potential failure.
They formally define Enlightened Leadership as "the
willingness and ability to draw the vision from their people and inspire and
empower those people to do what it takes to bring the vision into reality.
Indeed, Enlightened Leaders nurture and encourage their people to be open, creative,
and innovative and find what it takes to achieve their shared objectives."
This type of leadership gets the "members of the organization to accept
ownership for that vision as their own, thus developing the commitment to carry
it through to completion."
Much of the book is
devoted to asking thought provoking questions in the authors hope that the
reader can discover their own answers to an enhanced leadership approach. Much
of the content in the book is a result of their personal experience working
with their own clients and using their own observations. It is obviously full
of valid and helpful information presented in an interesting and easy to read
style.
weLEAD rating highly recommended
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