Intentional Leadership Getting to the Heart of the Matter

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This book provides a framework for guiding leaders to shift from linear cause-effect thinking to an ecology of moral intentional leadership paying attention to how their actions are connected to others. Readers are encouraged to act in a determined deliberate way to lead their employees teams and organizations to success. The book is divided into three parts opening with a narrative review of leadership literature then discussing the activities of 11 leaders—including Pope Francis Barack Obama and Lee Kuan Yew—and developing a learning framework for real change. The author provides an enlightened democratic model of leadership helping readers to understand and utilize the core competencies of intentional leaders: interruption presence imagination and action. A user-friendly structure examples from diverse leaders and end-of-chapter summaries encourage students to engage and experiment with traditional research and alternative theories. This will be a useful tool for students of leadership and peace and conflict studies as well as practitioners and emerging leaders in the public private and not-for-profit sectors. | Intentional Leadership Getting to the Heart of the Matter