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John Wiley & Sons Inc Leading Beyond The Walls by HESSELBEIN
"Beyond the walls is a battle cry that mobilizes . . . The walls that surround us protect us and embrace us can also inhibit movement limit understanding restrict engagement and diminish our relevance in the wider world. I realized that my walls and the walls of leaders everywhere were not only the walls of current policy practice procedure and assumption but also the walls of the past--safe familiar and secure. This recognition was just the first of several as we worked through a process to take ourselves and our organizations beyond the walls to new levels of performance and positive changes in the lives of people."--from the Introduction by Frances HesselbeinIn Leading Beyond the Walls twenty-nine great thinkers examine leaders adept at establishing partnerships alliances and networks both within and outside their organizations. They address the challenge of leading in an age when the old rules and conventional boundaries no longer exist. Peter F. Drucker Stephen R. Covey Peter M. Senge Jim Collins Noel Tichy Regina E. Herzlinger C.K. Prahalad and Sally Helgesen are among those who explore new ways of building relationships new approaches to strategy and marketing new models of employee relations and other innovations. Their essays herald a new world where success comes to those willing to move beyond the walls of tradition and inertia.To read the first chapter from this book click here.show more