Record details

• ISBN: 1555421520
• ISBN: 9781555421526
• ISBN: 1555422829
• ISBN: 9781555422820
• Physical Description: xix, 169 pages : portrait ; 24 cm.
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Publisher: San Francisco : Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1989.

Content descriptions

General Note:

Includes index.

Formatted Contents Note:

The author -- Part 1: The unconscious conspiracy and how to confound it -- One job, one year, one life -- Learning some basic truisms about leadership -- The new metaphysics of our age -- Part 2: A society without dreams -- The long slide from true leadership -- Back to the future -- The age of unreality -- Where have all the leaders gone? -- Part 3: Parts of the problem -- Bosses as heroes and celebrities -- When there are too many chiefs -- Bottom-line obsessions -- Untapped human capital -- The perils of accord -- The pornography of leadership -- When winning is losing -- The name of the game is greed -- Part 4: Parts of the solution -- Leading to make a difference -- A bright future for complexity -- Letting virtues shine through -- Quitting on principle -- Canceling the doppelgänger effect -- Leader power that no one has -- Avoiding disaster during periods of change -- Dealing with the way things are -- Postscript.

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Also issued online.

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