Failure of Nerve Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix

Name: Failure of Nerve Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix
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ISBN: 9781596270428

ISBN-10: 159627042X

ISBN-13: 9781596270428

Edition: 2007

Authors: Edwin H. Friedman, Margaret M. Treadwell, Edward W. Beal

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Ten years after his death, Edwin Friedman's insights into leadership are more urgently needed than ever. He was the first to tell us that all organizations have personalities, as families do, and to apply the insights of family therapy to churches and synagogues, rectors and rabbis, politicians and teachers. Failure of Nerve is essential reading for all leaders, be they parents or presidents, corporate executives or educators, religious superiors or coaches, healers or generals, managers or clergy. Friedman's insights about our regressed "seatbelt society," oriented toward safety rather than adventure, help explain the sabotage that leaders constantly face today. Suspicious of the quick…

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List price: $28.95
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Church Publishing, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/1/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 260
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Editors' Preface


Introduction: The Problem with Leadership



Imaginative Gridlock and the Spirit of Adventure



A Society in Regression



Data Junkyards and Data Junkies: The Fallacy of Expertise



Survival in a Hostile Environment: The Fallacy of Empathy



Autocracy Versus Integrity: The Fallacies of Self



Take Five



Emotional Triangles



Crisis and Sabotage: The Keys to the Kingdom


Epilogue: The Presence of the Past


Index