Why Leaders Can't Lead: The Unconscious Conspiracy Continues

Preface xi

The Author xvii

Part One: The Unconscious Conspiracy and How to Confound It 1

1 One Job, One Year, One Life 3

2 Learning Some Basic Truisms About Leadership 14

3 The New Metaphysics of Our Age 25

Part Two: A Society Without Dreams 31

4 The Long Slide from True Leadership 33

5 Back to the Future 42

6 The age of Unreality 50

7 Where Have All the Leaders Gone? 59

Part Three: Parts of the Problem 67

8 Bosses as Heroes and Celebrities 69

9 When There Are Too Many Chiefs 76

10 Bottom-Line Obsessions 81

11 Untapped Human Capital 86

12 The Perils of Accord 90

13 The Pornography of Leadership 94

14 When Winning Is Losing 98

15 The Name of the Game is Greed 102

Part Four: Parts of the Solution 105

16 Leading to Make a Difference 107

17 A Bright Future for Complexity 112

18 Letting Virtues Shine Through 116

19 Quitting on Principle 121

20 Canceling the Doppelganger Effect 137

21 Leader Power That No One Has 142

22 Avoiding Disaster During Periods of Change 147

23 Dealing with the Way Things Are 152

Postscript 160

Index 161