Head, Heart and Guts
How the World's Best Companies Develop Complete Leaders
J-B US non-Franchise Leadership
1. Edition June 2006
240 Pages, Hardcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
Short Description
Today's companies want leaders who can "lead from the front", take a clear position, create meaningful relationships, and "know themselves" while simultaneously building businesses. Employees want leaders who are authentic and inspire trust, those who set high standards and respect their unique talents. In Head, Heart, and Guts the authors, all from the world's leading executive development firm, argue that traditional leadership development focuses too much on the "head," and that it is critical for companies to identify and integrate other capabilities into the development of leaders. This book reveals the three most important leadership capabilities, the abilities to implement, empathize, and take risks, and tells how to put them into action.
"We know that the importance of these three human qualities--head, heart, and guts--has been recognized by people before our own time. The idea is not new. The most obvious illustration of it comes from the movies. Almost everyone has seen The Wizard of Oz, one of the most popular films ever made. You will recall that the three main characters (besides Dorothy and her dog Toto) were the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Cowardly Lion. The Scarecrow was searching for brains, the Tin Man for a heart, and the Lion for courage--or head, heart, and guts. Each recognized he was incomplete. Each was searching for the missing piece that would make him whole. Each had an underdeveloped capacity but either didn't know it or didn't know how to use what he had.
We find that many business leaders today are in the same situation as the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Lion--searching for the key personal quality that will somehow make them successful or whole (and often investing significantly in 'wizards' who promise to do so). Quite often, what they need already exists within them but is unrecognized or undeveloped. We hope this book will help move you down the yellow brick road of leadership understanding."
--from the Introduction
Part One: The Case for Whole Leadership.
1. Whole Leadership Versus Partial Leadership.
2. Developing Leaders the Systemic, Integrated Way.
Part Two: Head Leadership.
3. Rethinking the Way We Do Things Around Here.
4. Reframing the Boundaries.
5. Getting Things Done.
6. Developing and Articulating a Point of View.
Part Three: Heart Leadership.
7. Balancing People Needs with Business Requirements: Touching All the Bases.
8. Delivering Integrated Solutions Through Trust.
9. Working with and Leading People from Diverse Cultures: Developing True Empathy.
10. Overcoming Personal Derailers in Working with Others.
Part Four: Guts Leadership.
11. Taking Risks with Little or No Data.
12. Balancing Risk and Reward.
13. Acting with Unyielding Integrity.
Part Five: Mature Leadership.
14. Developing Mature Leaders for the Twenty-First Century.
References.
About the Authors.
Index.
Peter C. Cairo is head of executive programs and leadership strategy for Mercer Delta Executive Learning Center and former chairman of the Department of Counseling and Organizational Psychology at Columbia University.
Stephen H. Rhinesmith is a partner of Mercer Delta Executive Learning Center. He is former special ambassador to the Soviet Union and was president of Holland America Line.