ANNOTATED CONTENTS
SECTION1—FOUNDATIONALCONCEPTS
1.1 Leadership in the twenty-first century 2
➥Assesses where you are now as a leader, where you would like to be, and actions
needed to get you there.
1.2 Contrasting management and leadership 5
➥Helps leaders with an important distinction between management and leadership.
1.3 How effective leaders act: An overview 8
➥Moves leaders above their day-to-day leadership activities to take a bird’s-eye view
of the fundamentals and their leadership styles, strengths, and development needs.
1.4 Principles to guide your use of leadership techniques 11
➥Summarizes important principles for leaders and how to use them as a springboard
for developing beliefs, thinking, and action as a powerful leader.
1.5 The basic habits and practices of successful leaders 15
➥Helps leaders take specific leadership actions; inspired by Stephen Covey’s Seven
Habits.
1.6 Leadership: The boards of play 18
➥Shows how leaders who can “play” at higher “board levels” necessarily have more
power and influence than those at the lower levels.
1.7 The leadership results equation 21
➥Helps leaders understand leadership attributes and how to make optimum use of
these attributes to achieve four areas of results.
1.8 Recursive leadership: The logic of leadership 25
➥Extends, in a novel way, a mathematical and computing science term, recursion,to
explore some modeling aspects of effective leadership.
1.9 Paradigms: Understanding the thinking behind your thinking 29
➥Helps leaders understand, reflect on, and prepare for paradigm changes within a
workgroup, organization, or industry.xi