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The rapidly changing nature of today's business world requires that people possess strong leadership skill that can direct current trends in the workpalce and handle potential problems with efficiency, intelligence, and diplomacy. Author and management consultant John O'Neil shows
This book explains how to indentify the five inner enemies-failure to grow emotionally; failure to make creative decisions; failure to empathize; failure to manage ego; and failure to overcome alienation and boredom. We are given practical methods for overcoming these hurdles and are shown ways to assess and develop ourleaderahip potential through self-discovery tests and interactive exercises that embrace the six master practices of aikido; cultivating self-knowledge; pracitcing the paradoxiacal art of planning; speaking the language of mastery; letting values drive our decisions; turning failure into success; and heeding the law of unintended consequences.
Stressing the need for balance and self-awareness in both business and life, John O'Neil reveals the secrets of this ancient art in an easy to understand and straightforward manner. His thoughtful presence and energetic style, imbued with the win-win ethics of aikido, ensure us that by adopting these practices into our lives, we will benefit both professionally and personally.
John O'Neil is the author of the Paradox of Success and has a corresponding audioitape called Success and Your Shadow. After careers as an AT&T executive, a venture capitalist, vice president of Mills College, and president of the California School of Professional Psychology, he is currently president of the Center of Leadership Renewal.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Why Leaders Are Failig
2 The Face of Aikido-Style Leadership
3 The Five Internal Enemies: Locating the Blocks to Leadership Mastery
4 Find Your Balance as You Set Out to Practice the Art of Leadership
5 Master Practice #1: Cultivate Self-Knowledge
6 Master Practice #2: Practice the Paradoxical Art of Planning
7 Master Practice #3: Speak the Language of Mastery
8 Master Practice #4: Let Values Drive Your Decisions
9 Master Practice #5: Turn Failure into Success
10 Master Practce #6: Heed the Law of Unitended Consequences
Conclusion: Leading in the Green Glass Aage
Endnotes: bibliography; Index
The rapidly changing nature of today's business world requires that people possess strong leadership skill that can direct current trends in the workpalce and handle potential problems with efficiency, intelligence, and diplomacy. Author and management consultant John O'Neil shows
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us how the concepts of aikido-the martial art tradition that stesses victory without harm-can be used as a lifelong business practice. Illustrating his points with stories and experiences of high achievers in business, politics, and the arts, Leaderhsilp Aikido presents innovative skills that answer an urgent need as managers and employers rethink outmoded business paradigms in order to keep offices running smoothly, production levels high, and moral up. Employers and managers at all levels are looking to create programs that incorporate businesss requirements with their professional and spiritual goals. O'Neil provides a practical way to achieve this by teaching us how to embrace the philosophy of aikido, which can turn beliefs, perceptions, and actions into harmony and lead us down a path of continuous learning, inner personal change and enlightened leadership.This book explains how to indentify the five inner enemies-failure to grow emotionally; failure to make creative decisions; failure to empathize; failure to manage ego; and failure to overcome alienation and boredom. We are given practical methods for overcoming these hurdles and are shown ways to assess and develop ourleaderahip potential through self-discovery tests and interactive exercises that embrace the six master practices of aikido; cultivating self-knowledge; pracitcing the paradoxiacal art of planning; speaking the language of mastery; letting values drive our decisions; turning failure into success; and heeding the law of unintended consequences.
Stressing the need for balance and self-awareness in both business and life, John O'Neil reveals the secrets of this ancient art in an easy to understand and straightforward manner. His thoughtful presence and energetic style, imbued with the win-win ethics of aikido, ensure us that by adopting these practices into our lives, we will benefit both professionally and personally.
John O'Neil is the author of the Paradox of Success and has a corresponding audioitape called Success and Your Shadow. After careers as an AT&T executive, a venture capitalist, vice president of Mills College, and president of the California School of Professional Psychology, he is currently president of the Center of Leadership Renewal.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Why Leaders Are Failig
2 The Face of Aikido-Style Leadership
3 The Five Internal Enemies: Locating the Blocks to Leadership Mastery
4 Find Your Balance as You Set Out to Practice the Art of Leadership
5 Master Practice #1: Cultivate Self-Knowledge
6 Master Practice #2: Practice the Paradoxical Art of Planning
7 Master Practice #3: Speak the Language of Mastery
8 Master Practice #4: Let Values Drive Your Decisions
9 Master Practice #5: Turn Failure into Success
10 Master Practce #6: Heed the Law of Unitended Consequences
Conclusion: Leading in the Green Glass Aage
Endnotes: bibliography; Index
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ISBN
517705753
Publication
Harmony Books New York