Caterpillars obliterate themselves to produce the butterflies that dazzle us. McCleary thoughtfully and without apology asks you to obliterate yourself to liberate your leadership and give it wings. If you are looking for easy 1-2-3 leadership, look elsewhere. This is deep and necessary provocation.
Ron Crossland, co-author of The Leader's Voice and former Vice-Chair, Tom Peters Company
“A bold guide for leaders courageous enough to engage in serious self-reflection; an invitation to explore what is perhaps the last frontier for excellence – self-interference.”
Timothy Gallwey, author of The Inner Game of Tennis, The Inner Game of Work, and The Inner Game of Stress
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Courageous Voices of Truth
6 – Judging Judgment Fears, Control, Decision Making
8 – Painless Prisons Pain Avoidance, Unhelpful Kindness
9 – Fear’s Sentencing Hiding, Ivory Towers, Dehumanizing,
Power Distance 11 – Apprehended by Appearances
Masks, Authenticity, Hypocrisy, Ego-Death19 – The Seditious Undertow of Silence
Truth, Freedom, Collusion of Silence20 – Exiled in Action
Meaningless Motion
Wounded Healers
2 – Unresolved GriefPast Wounds, Angry Hero, Victimization
5 – Scaling Walls of WoundsHiding, Ivory Towers, Dehumanizing,
Power Distance 8 – Painless Prisons
Pain Avoidance, Unhelpful Kindness13 – Captivity of Indecision
Indecisive, Worthless, Hesitation, Helpless14 – Corked in a Bottle
Emotion Avoidance, Disproportionate Response17 – Deserts of Disavowal
Rejected, Disavowed, Disempowered, Shame
Powerfully Irrelevant3 – False Sense of Freedom
Dehumanizing, Tyranny, Projecting Incarceration4 – Ties that Bind
Leadership is Relationship, Community, Isolation7 – Arrested by Adoration
Worship and Following, Humility, Equality12 – Confined in Blindness
Blindness, Desensitizing, Vulnerability, Domination15 – Desensitized Detainment
Numbness, Coercion, Supremacy, Impersonal16 – Trapped in Competence
Deceitful, Disloyal, Self-Protective, Ends/Means18 – Cells of Solipsism
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© 2009 David McCleary. All rights reserved.
Self-Interference, the Last Frontier of Excellence
What courage is required of me now? What choices would set me free?
What is my contribution to my frustrations? What music is trapped inside me?
Change-Facilitative Leadership… Collaborative Leadership
All change is a self-inflicted woundAll significant change involves choice, discomfort, vision, & movement All group/organization change is preceded by personal change Pause Challenge Choose
In what ways is my thinking limited to the past & present
time periods?
In what ways can I bring a sense of
future & possibility into all
conversations?
In what ways do I convey to others, in my words and deeds, that change will be over or should be
avoided?
In what ways can I live and act from the belief that change is normal and exciting?
In what ways do I support the view that
leadership is for senior management
only?
In what ways can I share the power and
rewards of leadership with others?
Partnering to Release Trapped Value in Leaders, Teams, and Organizations
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“To develop oneself as a leader, turn away from the familiar, the comfortable, and even the sources of existing power. That’s the message of this book, and David McCleary makes it sound not just possible, but compelling.”
Art Kleiner, author of The Age of Heretics and editor-in-chief of Strategy+Business
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