Humble Leadership

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Praise for Humble Leadership

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Preface

1 A New Approach to Leadership

What Is Leadership? The Leader–Follower Relationship

Why We Need Another Book about Leadership

So How Is Humble Leadership Different?

A Range of Humble Leadership Examples

The Implications of What We Are Arguing

Summary and Plan of Action

2 Culturally Defined Levels of Relationship

What Is a Relationship?

Four Levels of Relationships

Degree of Personization as the Critical Differentiator of Levels

Level Minus 1: Negative Relationships

Level 1: Transactional Bureaucratic and “Professional” Relationships

Level 2: Relationships That Acknowledge the Whole Person

Level 3: Intimacy and Emotional Attachment Friendship and Love

Summary and Conclusions

3 Humble Leadership in Governance: The Singapore Story

Historical Summary

An Unforeseen Confirmation

Lessons to Be Taken from This Singapore Story

4 Transforming a Medical Center into a Level 2 Culture

Creating a “New Compact”

Choosing a Change Methodology

Involving the Board and the Senior Executives

Implementing the System and Seeing Some Results

The Main Lessons of the Transformation

5 Humble Leadership in the US Military

Summary and Conclusions

6 When Hierarchy and Unintended Consequences Stifle Humble Leadership

Summary and Conclusions

7 Humble Leadership and the Future

Humble Leadership Will Be Even More about Context and Process and Less about Content and Expertise

Humble Leadership Will Have to Cope with Tribalism and Build Relationships Unbound by Unconscious Biases

Humble Leadership Will Have to Challenge Individual Abuse of Power

Humble Leadership Can Help Groups Become More Agile and Collaborative to Tailor Leadership to Employees and Customers

Humble Leadership Will Have to Perpetually Reconsider How to Organize Relationships and Workgroups in a Global Mobile World

Humble Leadership Will Involve Being Both Physically Present and Virtually Present as Organizations Become More Globally Distributed

Summary and Conclusions

8 Humble Leadership Requires Reinforcing the “Soft Stuff”

Focus on Group Process and Experiential Learning

Group Growth and Development

Making Group Dynamics a Central Leadership Responsibility

Summary and Conclusions

9 Personizing: Building Level 2 Relationships

Part 1. Reading and Reflecting

Part 2. Homework at Your Desk: Analyzing Your Present Relationships and Planning for Future Relationships

Part 3. Enhancement of Behavioral Skills

Developing Insight into Group Process

Summary and Conclusions

References

Acknowledgments

Index