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Leadership Passages: The Personal and Professional Transitions That Make or Break a Leader

ISBN: 978-0-7879-7427-5
Hardcover
240 pages
September 2004, Jossey-Bass
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Introduction 1

1. What Is Effective Leadership? 10

2. How Do Leaders Learn? 22

3. Joining a Company 34

4. Moving into a Leadership Role 45

5. Accepting the Stretch Assignment 58

6. Assuming Responsibility for a Business 70

7. Dealing with Significant Failure for Which You Are Responsible 81

8. Coping with a Bad Boss and Competitive Peers 93

9. Losing Your Job or Being Passed Over for Promotion 107

10. Being Part of an Acquisition or Merger 119

11. Living in a Different Country or Culture 132

12. Finding a Meaningful Balance Between Work and Family 144

13. Letting Go of Ambition 157

14. Facing Personal Upheaval 167

15. Losing Faith in the System 178

16. How Companies Can Use Passages to Develop Leadership 187

17. An Eight-Step Survive-and-Thrive Guide 201

Bibliography 215

About the Authors 219

Index 221

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