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Book Description

Leaders need to be forceful--to assert themselves and their capabilities and to push others to perform. Leaders also need to be enabling--to tap into and bring out the capabilities of others. The problem is that many executives see forceful leadership and enabling leadership as mutually exclusive, or strongly prefer one or the other, and therefore lack the versatility to be truly effective. This publication explains how executives can overcome the emotional barriers to expanding their skill sets in one direction or the other.

Table of Contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Acknowledgments
  6. Preface
  7. Introduction
  8. The Tension between Forceful and Enabling
  9. Forceful Leadership and Enabling Leadership as Opposing Virtues
  10. Versatility
  11. Enabling Leadership as “Virtuous”
  12. Development Needs as Lack of Versatility
    1. When Virtues Become Vices
      1. Getting involved personally versus granting autonomy
      2. Declaring oneself versus hearing from other people
      3. Making tough calls versus being sensitive to people’s needs
      4. Making critical judgments versus showing appreciation
      5. Having a can-do attitude versus accepting limits
      6. Conveying confidence versus showing modesty, humility
    2. Lopsidedness or Restricted Movement
    3. Case of Overly Forceful, Not Enabling Enough
    4. Case of Overly Enabling, Not Forceful Enough
  13. What It Takes to Increase Versatility
    1. Learning to Emphasize the Underdeveloped Side
    2. Learning to De-emphasize the Overdeveloped Side
    3. The Primary Development Task for Forceful Managers
    4. The Primary Development Task for Enabling Managers
    5. Phases in Actually Changing
  14. Conclusion
  15. Appendix
  16. Bibliography
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