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Leading Beyond the Walls: Wisdom to Action Series by Hesselbein, Frances; Goldsmith, Marshall; Somerville, Iain; Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Leading Beyond the Walls: Wisdom to Action Series about?

<p><P>"Beyond the walls is a battle cry that mobilizes.... The walls that surround us, protect us, and embrace us can also inhibit movement, limit understanding, restrict engagement, and diminish our relevance in the wider world. I realized that my walls, and the walls of leaders everywhere, were not only the walls of current policy, practice, procedure, and assumption but also the walls of the past&#151;safe, familiar, and secure. This recognition was just the first of several as we worked through a process to take ourselves and our organizations beyond the walls to new levels of performance and positive changes in the lives of people."&#151;from the Introduction by Frances HesselbeinIn This first volume of the Wisdom to Action series, twenty-nine of the world's greatest thinkers explore the need for a new paradigm in leadership. In today's fast-paced global society, leaders must be adept at establishing diverse partnerships, alliances, and networks by building and maintaining relationships both within and outside their own organizations. They must be comfortable with working with individuals and organizations they cannot control in the traditional sense, but with whom they share

Author

Hesselbein, Frances; Goldsmith, Marshall; Somerville, Iain; Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management

Publisher

John Wiley & Sons, Inc. [US]

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9780787959098

Subjects

Management, Business, Economics