Who Do We Choose To Be? :Facing Reality, Claiming Leadership, Restoring Sanity

Publication subTitle :Facing Reality, Claiming Leadership, Restoring Sanity

Author: Wheatley Margaret J.  

Publisher: Berrett Koehler‎

Publication year: 2017

E-ISBN: 9781523083640

Subject: C933 the theory of leadership

Keyword: 心理学,经济计划与管理

Language: ENG

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This book is born of my desire to summon us to be leaders for this time as things fall apart, to reclaim leadership as a noble profession that creates possibility and humaneness in the midst of increasing fear and turmoil.

I know it is possible for leaders to use their power and influence, their insight and compassion, to lead people back to an understanding of who we are as human beings, to create the conditions for our basic human qualities of generosity, contribution, community and love to be evoked no matter what. I know it is possible to experience grace and joy in the midst of tragedy and loss. I know it is possible to create islands of sanity in the midst of wildly disruptive seas. I know it is possible because I have worked with leaders over many years in places that knew chaos and breakdown long before this moment. And I have studied enough history to know that such leaders always arise when they are most needed. Now it's our turn.

Chapter

Dwelling Mind

1. THE ARROW OF TIME: Everything Has a Beginning, a Middle, and an End

What Science Teaches

Facing Reality

The Rise and Fall of Civilizations

The Decline of Civilizations in Ten Generations

The Myth of Progress

The Religion of “Technological Majesty”

Tipping Points

Claiming Leadership

Choosing to Lead Well in Collapse

Leading an Island of Sanity

Restoring Sanity

Where Is Your Organization on the Arrow of Time?

Leading from the Future

2. IDENTITY: Living Systems Change in Order to Preserve Themselves

What Science Teaches

Facing Reality

Identity Then and Now

The Rise of Celebrity Culture

The Compelling Call of Identity

Whatever Happened to Ethics?

Claiming Leadership

“We are faithful; therefore we are not afraid.”

Restoring Sanity

Leading with Integrity

3. INFORMATION: It’s Better to Learn Than Be Dead

What Science Teaches

Facing Reality

Information Makes a Difference

How the Digital Age Destroyed the Information Age

What Happened to Learning?

Neural Networks Can Herd Cats

Claiming Leadership

Restoring Learning to Decision Making

The Origin of a Great Line

Restoring Sanity

The Principles and Process of an After Action Review (AAR)

Dealing with the Impossible

4. SELF-ORGANIZATION: Order for Free

What Science Teaches

Facing Reality

When Humans Self-Organize

The Unstoppable Rise of Terror

Leading with Self-Organization: Social Movements and Terrorism

Claiming Leadership

Leadership Lessons from Social Movements

Restoring Sanity

Grace Lee Boggs: A Lifetime of Movement Building

Q: How Do You Self-Organize an Island of Sanity?

A: You Rely on Human Human Beings

5. PERCEPTION: What You See Is All You Get

What Science Teaches

Facing Reality

The Blinders of Inexplicable Arrogance

Cognitive Dissonance

Cognitive Dissonance and Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs)

Conspiracy Theories

Claiming Leadership

Depending on Diversity

Restoring Sanity

A Tale of Two Stories

6. INTERCONNECTEDNESS: Nothing Living Lives Alone

What Science Teaches

Facing Reality

When There Is No Place Called Home

Emergent Systems Can’t Be Changed

Claiming Leadership

Leading with Emergence

Restoring Sanity

The Joy of Interbeing

You Can’t Build on Broken

7. WHO DO WE CHOOSE TO BE?

Leadership and the Collapse of Complexity

Naming Ourselves

What Do You Stand For?

Where Do You Stand?

The Gift of Meaningful Work

8. NO MATTER WHAT

Unshakable Confidence, Unquestioned Humility

No Hope No Fear

Making Our Shoulders Strong

What Do You Want to Be Remembered For?

CODA: WHEN THERE IS NO REALITY

Appendix

Recommended Readings

Acknowledgments

Index

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