How Great Leaders Think

"... one of the best leadership books of the year. The pair blend anecdotes, cultural references and hard facts to stunning effect, even if their findings aren't always new." (People Management, October 2014) "Whether you've been managing employees and setting a structure for your business for 20 years or 20 days, the simple, succinct explanations, illustrated with interesting and engaging examples, will help you get control of your business plan and allow you to forge ahead with a well-rounded, concise vision." (Talk Business, October 2014)

LEE G. BOLMAN holds the Marion Block Missouri Chair in Leadership at the Bloch School of Management, University of MissouriKansas City. With Terrence Deal, Bolman is coauthor of the bestselling book Reframing Organizations, now in its 5th edition. For twenty years, Bolman taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. TERRENCE E. DEAL is the founder of the Deal Leadership Institute and has served on the faculties of Stanford, Harvard, Vanderbilt, and the University of Southern California. He is the author or coauthor of twenty-seven books, including the bestseller Corporate Cultures, as well as numerous articles on organizations, change, and leadership.

Preface vii Acknowledgments ix Part 1 Leadership in Four Dimensions 1 1 Introduction: The Power of Reframing 3 Part 2 Structural Leadership 21 2 Getting Organized 23 3 Organizing Groups and Teams 37 Part 3 Human Resource Leadership 49 4 Leading People 51 5 Seeing Ourselves as Others See Us 63 Part 4 Political Leadership 77 6 The Leader as Politician 79 7 The Leader as Warrior and Peacemaker 91 Part 5 Symbolic Leadership 105 8 The Leader as Magician 107 9 Seeking Soul in Teams 119 Part 6 Improving Leadership Practice 129 10 Reframing in Action 131 11 Images of Leadership: Can Crooked Kites Fly? 145 12 Leadership and Change 159 13 Searching for Soul: Leadership Ethics 175 14 Great Leaders, Great Stories 187 Appendix: Leadership Orientations 195 Notes 201 The Authors 213 Index 215