This text collates the ideas of business thinkers from around the world to show leaders how to manage in a business world that requires leading beyond the boundaries of their own organization. It covers managerial skills, ways of building relationships, strategy and marketing and labour relations.
"Beyond the walls is a battle cry that mobilizes.... The walls that surround us, protect us, and embrace us can also inhibit movement, limit understanding, restrict engagement, and diminish our relevance in the wider world. I realized that my walls, and the walls of leaders everywhere, were not only the walls of current policy, practice, procedure, and assumption but also the walls of the past safe, familiar, and secure. This recognition was just the first of several as we worked through a process to take ourselves and our organizations beyond the walls to new levels of performance and positive changes in the lives of people."
from the Introduction by Frances Hesselbein
In this first volume of the Wisdom to Action series, twenty–nine of the world′s greatest thinkers explore the need for a new paradigm in leadership. In today′s fast–paced global society, leaders must be adept at establishing diverse partnerships, alliances, and networks by building and maintaining relationships both within and outside their own organizations. They must be comfortable with working with individuals and organizations they cannot control in the traditional sense, but with whom they share core values, purposes, and goals. Ultimately, they must learn to lead through commitment and connection both of which are rooted in freedom of choice rather than in systems of coercion and control.
Leading Beyond the Walls brings together Peter F. Drucker, Stephen R. Covey, Peter M. Senge, Jim Collins, Noel Tichy, Regina E. Herzlinger, C.K. Prahalad, Sally Helgesen, and other thought leaders to describe new ways of building relationships, new approaches to strategy and marketing, new models of employee relations, and other innovative ways of thinking and acting. They share practical insights on the challenge of leading in an age when the old rules and conventional boundaries no longer exist. Their incisive essays herald a world in which new possibilities can come only from leaders and organizations willing to move beyond the walls of inertia and tradition.
"There is need for the acceptance of leaders in every single institution and in every single sector that they, as leaders, have two responsibilities. They are responsible and accountable for the performance of their institutions, and that requires them and their institutions to be concentrated, focused, limited. They are responsible also, however, for the community as a whole. This requires commitment. It requires willingness to accept that other institutions have different values, respect for these values, and willingness to learn what these values are. It requires hard work. But above all it requires commitment, conviction, dedication to the common good. Yes, each institution is autonomous and has to do its own work the way each instrument in an orchestra plays only its own part. But there is also the score, the community. And only if each individual instrument contributes to the score is there music. Otherwise there is only noise.
"And this book is about the score." Peter F. Drucker
Become Part of the Score with These Thought Leaders:
Robert Anthony
Jim Belasco
William Bridges
Christopher Cappy
Richard E. Cavanagh
Eli Cohen
Jim Collins
Stephen R. Covey
Peter F. Drucker
Arun Gandhi
Marshall Goldsmith
Rita Harmon
Sally Helgesen
Regina E. Herzlinger
Frances Hesselbein
Robert Porter Lynch
D. Quinn Mills
Joseph S. Nye Jr.
C.K. Prahalad
Charles Roussel
Peter M. Senge
Stratford Sherman
Iain Somerville
Roxanne Spillett
Noel Tichy
Mel Toomey
Dave Ulrich
Patrick J. Waide Jr.
Cathy Walt
