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Leadership
Can Be Taught
A Bold Approach for plex World
Sharon Daloz Parks
HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL PRESS
Boston, Massachusetts
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Copyright 2005 Harvard Business School Publishing Corporation
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Parks, Sharon Daloz.
Leadership can be taught : a bold approach for plex world /
Sharon Daloz Parks.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 1-59139-309-4 (alk. paper)
1. Leadership. 2. Executive ability. I. Title.
2005
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Contents
Foreword—ix
Acknowledgments—xiii
ONE Leadership for a Changing World 1
A Call to Adaptive Work
TWO How Do We Begin? 19
Differing Expectations
THREE What Is Really Going On Here? 45
Engaging People at the Edge of Learning
FOUR Learning from Failure in Public 73
The Power of Small Group Consultation
FIVE Listening to the Music Beneath the Words 99
The Practice of Presence
SIX What Endures? 121
The Power of Language, Image, and Metaphor
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Contents
SEVEN Courage and Costs 147