Introduction
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Part One: The Leadership Disease and Its Cure – Twisted
Leadership
Introduces a new way of thinking about leadership – shows how anyone, at any level of an organization, can be a leader.
Charles C. Manz, Ph.D., is a speaker, consultant, and
bestselling author of over 200 articles and scholarly papers and
more than 20 books, including Self-Leadership; The New
SuperLeadership; Share, Don’t Take the Lead; The Power of Failure;
Fit to Lead; Business Without Bosses; The Leadership Wisdom of
Jesus; Foreword Reviews magazine best-book-of-the-year Gold Award
winner Emotional Discipline; and Stybel-Peabody National Book
Prize-winner SuperLeadership. His work has been featured in the
Wall Street Journal, Fortune, U.S. News & World Report, Success,
Psychology Today, Fast Company, and other national media. He is the
Nirenberg Chaired Professor of Leadership in the Isenberg School of
Management at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Formerly a
Marvin Bower Fellow at the Harvard Business School, his clients
have included 3M, Ford, Xerox, General Motors, P&G, American
Express, the Mayo Clinic, Banc One, the U.S. and Canadian
governments, and many others.
Craig L. Pearce, Ph.D., is a speaker, consultant, and
entrepreneur. He has published scores of articles and several
books, including Share, Don’t Take the Lead; The Drucker
Difference; and Shared Leadership. His work has garnered many
awards, including the Penn State Alumni Fellow Award, and has been
featured in the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times Agenda.
He is the Ben May Distinguished Professor at the Mitchell College
of Business, University of South Alabama. He has lectured at many
leading universities, including Harvard, Duke, University of
Amsterdam, Vienna University, Peking University, Instituto de
Empresa. He was the founding Director of the Deloitte Leadership
Institute in Istanbul and has consulted for numerous organizations,
including American Express, the Central Intelligence Agency, Land
Rover, Mack Trucks, Panda Express, and many others. He is both a
leadership development expert and a leader, drawing from real-life
leadership experience building entrepreneurial firms.
"This provocatively titled book is not about 'narcissism and
self-serving destructive motives and action on the part of so many
power holders, ' as some may surmise, but rather promulgates
'intertwined, synergistic . . . process-based leadership.' So write
business professors Charles Manz and Craig Pearce, who elegantly
describe four components of twisted leadership as complementary
strands woven together in a rope: self-leadership, SuperLeadership,
shared Leadership, and socially responsible leadership. The
professors identify the destructive effects of 'centralized,
top-down, hierarchical leadership, ' labeling it 'leadership
disease, ' and propose the four strands referenced above as
'effective medications.' The strands are fully discussed in
individual chapters, which include an overview, a seven-step
progression to achieve success, and several questions for the
reader to answer. Each form of 'twisted leadership' is uniquely
important and stands on its own, but as Manz and Pearce point out,
together they are 'like synergistic strands that, when twisted
together, can create a formidable rope.' To demonstrate the
collective power of the four strands, the authors use as an example
W. L. Gore and Associates, a highly successful manufacturer of
multiple products that all use as their primary ingredient the
company's well-known Gore-Tex. Twisted Leadership closes with a
chapter that details 'prescriptions' for implementing the
principles of twisted leadership in organizations, along with a
useful resources section for further study. Competing with the
authors of numerous other leadership books in a burgeoning
category, Manz and Pearce are to be commended for putting a new
twist on the subject. Barry Silverstein, Foreword Reviews
Competing with the authors of numerous other leadership books in a
burgeoning category, Manz and Pearce are to be commended for
putting a new twist on the subject. -- Foreword Reviews
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