Book description
Expanding on the fresh concepts that made the first edition of
Clear Leadership such a success a decade ago, Bushe brings up-to-date
the tools and techniques needed to build sustaining partnerships and
make today's collaborative organizations work. This fully revised
edition now includes 23 skill-building exercises, dozens of personal
stories and examples, and completely new chapters that add a sharper
focus on ways the original model of the four Selves--the Aware Self,
Curious Self, Appreciative Self, and Descriptive Self--can help anyone
cut through the miscommunication, misunderstanding and toxic mush
dominating the workplace to achieve clarity, full engagement and
sustained collaboration.
There is great power in his idea that we construct the world and
become effective when we get this, share this, and get interested in the
stories of others. This book makes leadership accessible to all, even
the quiet, shy, avoid-eye-contact ones among us. It is also written with
elegant simplicity. Buy it, read it, pass it around.--Peter Block,
Partner at Designed Learning; author of Community, the Structure of
Belonging Gervase R. Bushe, PhD is president of Clear Learning Ltd., a
consulting firm with worldwide associates whose clients include Shell
Oil, General Motors, and BC Telecom. Professor of leadership and
organizational change at Simon Fraser University, Dr. Bushe is coauthor
of ParallelLearning Structures and other award-winning work that has
appeared in The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science and Organization
Development Journal.
