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The art and adventure of leadership : understanding failure, resilience, and success
\"The path to success represents a conundrum: Ultimate success often requires failures along the way, and fear of failure often blocks ultimate success. But the wise leader needs to know when he or she cannot afford to fail. The Art and Adventure of Leadership examines why some great leaders were able to recover from spectacular failure. And it explores and assesses which leadership skills are nonnegotiable for any leader who seeks to avoid lasting failure and to attain ultimate success.\" -- Provided by publisher.
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The Art and Adventure of Leadership
For the first time, a top leadership scholar and a top leadership practitioner explore the true duties, demands, and privileges of leadership.
I ntellectual sparks flew when Warren Bennis, the \"father\" of modern leadership studies and Steven B. Sample, one of the most accomplished university presidents in recent history, came together for candid explorations of the forces that shape successful leaders and unsuccessful ones.
The Art and Adventure of Leadership, their final collaboration, reveals the profound insights that the authors gained together over the 16 years in which they co-taught one of the most popular leadership courses in America.
Here, each brings his own distinct vantage point as they address the mechanics and mysteries of leadership. The result is a unique examination of the journey of great leaders from momentary setbacks to ultimate success. It offers profound lessons on what determines the difference between failure and redemption for leaders. And it illuminates important and overlooked dimensions of great leaders ranging from Winston Churchill to Steve Jobs.
Together, they explore why:
* A mature leader must grasp when it's healthy to risk failure, and when failure can't be tolerated at any cost
* Leadership isn't for everyone and requires a particular set of skills and competencies that are often glossed over in most management literature
* To succeed in an uncertain and fast-changing world, a shrewd leader must understand which aspects of human society change—and which aspects never change
* A mature, wise leader must seek a balance between high-minded ideals and the gritty realities and compromises that leaders face in their daily lives
* Above all, meaningful leadership remains a matter of character
With incredible insight, this book examines why George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and other giants were able to recover from failures, learn resilience, and prepare themselves for their moments of destiny. In so doing, it demonstrates and helps cultivate the leadership skills that you need to create your own most meaningful legacy.
The Art and Adventure of Leadership is a unique look at leadership, and a critical resource for the leaders of tomorrow.
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Can America \Lose\ in the Globalization Game?
This essay argues that the narrative of American decline reflects an overreliance on evanescent economic trends and on a lack of appreciation for the cultural factors that nurture the processes of globalization and innovation. Despite political dysfunctions, the United States has demographic and cultural assets that are uniquely suited to these processes. Meanwhile, challengers such as China and India must navigate even more serious political, economic, demographic and environmental challenges—and even if they do so successfully, they may face cultural backlashes within societies that are ambivalent about their future direction. Globalization may well be a pernicious process, one that bleeds the planet's resources; yet as long as it represents the main arena of international competition and collaboration, the author suggests that reports of American decline may be as premature today as they were in numerous other moments over the past half-century.
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Can America \Lose\ in the Globalization Game?
This essay argues that the narrative of American decline reflects an overreliance on evanescent economic trends and on a lack of appreciation for the cultural factors that nurture the processes of globalization and innovation. Despite political dysfunctions, the United States has demographic and cultural assets that are uniquely suited to these processes. Meanwhile, challengers such as China and India must navigate even more serious political, economic, demographic and environmental challenges-and even if they do so successfully, they may face cultural backlashes within societies that are ambivalent about their future direction. Globalization may well be a pernicious process, one that bleeds the planet's resources; yet as long as it represents the main arena of international competition and collaboration, the author suggests that reports of American decline may be as premature today as they were in numerous other moments over the past half-century. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
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IS FAITH AN IMPEDIMENT TO PEACE? RELIGION DOESN'T KILL PEOPLE; PEOPLE KILL PEOPLE
Sam Harris has echoed the sentiment in a new book, \"The End of Faith: Religion, Terror and the Future of Reason.\" Harris, a foe of not just religious extremists but moderates too, writes, \"Words like 'God' and 'Allah' must go the way of 'Apollo' and 'Baal,' or they will unmake our world.\" Harris contends that religious faith is \"the devil's masterpiece.\" The notion that religion is the enemy of peace is at odds with the history of the 20th century. Hitler's National Socialists were driven by reason, science and temporal considerations - not by prayer, liturgy or the hope of heaven. Uncle Joe Stalin's calm barbarism sprang not from his youthful intention to be a priest, but from his later spurning of faith-based values. And Mao was religious - and prolific - in his goal of exterminating religious people. Religion says we must love our enemies; science and reason say we are merely animals trying to perpetuate our own line at the expense of rivals. Religion says we gain when we sacrifice; science and reason cannot make that case. Religion says every human is made just a little lower than the angels, crafted in the image of God, and imbued with a great dignity; science says we're a random accident that will be replaced by future accidents. Religion preaches altruism, but altruism is never reasonable.
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Fighting smarter, not harder
Remember that concept? It kept both you and the Soviets in check for four decades. Some of your hawks wanted to pre-emptively bomb the USSR before its nuclear capability caught up to yours. But smarter hawks prevailed, and \"mutually assured destruction\" preserved order. Soberly threaten Saddam Hussein with the incineration of everything within five miles of him if he takes (or helps others take) American lives. He's crazy, but most crazy people are not suicidal. The only way he'll become a suicide bomber is if you back him into a corner.
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