Developing Leaders for Positive Organizing: A 21st Century Repertoire for Leading in Extraordinary Times

As revealed in the most recent global survey of human capital trends conducted by Deloitte University, leadership is rated as the top priority across all organizational levels, geographies, and functional areas in every industry. The evolving shift in leadership from individual leaders at the top to collective leadership throughout organizations requires creating and sustaining the necessary conditions through which leaders and those being led can flourish and positive organizing can thrive. Developing Leaders for Positive Organizing examines this challenge by taking the reader on an investigative journey into everyday leadership as framed in the increasingly interconnected context of human relationships within and across organizations around the globe. This book offers broad appeal for the novice working practitioner; corporate, not-for-profit, or non-profit executive; experienced scholar or academic student.

Table of Contents:
SECTION I: EMERGENT MINDSET 1. The Emergent Nature of Positive (and Negative) Organizing: Why Mindset Matters; Rob Koonce2. Brunello Cucinelli: An Inspired Leader Who Helps Employees To Have It All; Marcello Russo  3. Fostering an Emergent Mindset in Leaders: The Role of Caring in A Leadership Development Case; Jessica Nicholson and Elizabeth C. Kurucz  4.  Building Positive Collective Mindsets with the "what-we-are-best-at" Group Intervention; Marsha M. Huber, Shirine L. Mafi and Wei Wang SECTION II: COURAGE  5. Courage; Arthur Schwartz  6. It Takes Courage: Lessons Learned from Starbucks #RaceTogether Campaign Case Study; Courtney L. McCluney, Laura Morgan Roberts and Lynn Perry Wooten 7. Personal Risk for Social Good: Yahya's Courageous Career and Leadership Decisions; Farah Yasmine Shakir, Petra Kipfelsberger, Anneloes M.L. Raes and Yih-Teen Lee SECTION III: FORGIVENESS  8. Forgiveness; Steven L. Smith  9. Leadership in Multicultural Environments: A Courageous Case of Forgiveness for South Africa; Adri Drotskie and Rica Viljoen  10. Forgiveness: On The Journey to Reconciliation; Linda Pallone  11. Fostering Forgiveness in a Conflict-Affected Country; Susan Ryan  SECTION IV: MENTAL FITNESS  12. Leading with Mental Fitness; Paula Robinson 13. Mental Health in the Workplace: A Case Study for Collective Responsibility; Jacqueline H. Stephenson  14. Developing Restful Awareness: Lessons in Energizing Individuals and Teams from the Micro-practices of a Yoga Class; Anne Messervy 15. Mental Fitness at Knox Grammar School; Steve Zolezzi  16. The Introduction of Well-Being into the Curriculum of an Executive MBA Program: The Sydney Business School a Reflective Case Study; Dr. Lee E. J. Styger and Lauren Richardson SECTION V: POSITIVE ENERGY  17. Experiencing Human Energy as a Catalyst for Developing Leadership Capacity; Bernd Vogel  18. Ella's Kitchen: Strategic Positive Leadership with Purpose and Value-Driven Collective Energy; Amal Ahmadi and Bernd Vogel  19. Transforming Negative Energy Into Positive Energy Through Intercultural Communication Exercises; Daniel Velasco  20. Igniting Leadership: Ritual and Interaction within the AI Summit; Janis Bragan Balda, Mary Saunders Bulan, and William DesJenniferis  SECTION VI: HUMAN VALUES  21. Navigating the Terrain of Positive Organizing: An Engagement with Values; Ken Otter 22. Putting Values to Work at KKT: Nourishment for a Positive Leadership Culture; Ken Otter, Tone S. Ringstad and Sigbjørn Smeland 23. Words for Worlds: Developing Leaders through Values and Narrative Processes at the University of Alberta; Victor Shewchuk, Christine Cavanaugh Simmons and Marcy Strong  24. "This Above All: To Thine Own Self Be True"; Emma Watton and Scott Lichtenstein

About the Author :
Rob Koonce, Creighton University, USA Paula Robinson, Sydney Business School and Positive Psychology Institute, University of Wollongong, Australia Bernd Vogel, Henley Business School, University of Reading, UK

Review :
Written by business scholars and others from around the world, the 24 chapters presented here explore aspects that create positive conditions to help expand the individual, relational, and collective repertoire of leadership in organizations: an emergent mindset, courage, forgiveness, mental fitness, positive energy, and human values. Each section contains a chapter on the topic, followed by case studies of individuals like Bruno Cucinelli and Yahya Khan; organizations like Starbucks, Ella’s Kitchen, and KKT; and settings like South Africa, a yoga class, a grammar school, and universities. Developing leaders for positive organizing in the 21st century is a daunting task given the transient times in which we live. Modernity is exciting, transformation challenging, and the human factor compoundingly more complex. Whether mere mortals are leading nations, corporates, government departments, church congregations, or small businesses, they must be cognizant of discerning consumers, ever-changing technology, and market and societal conditions which will test conventions. Adaptation is required to flourish and survive.  The compendium of chapters and assembled articles in this remarkable publication address these issues and subjects comprehensively, and even with an element of entertainment. Serious research is interspersed with compelling case material, and emotional experiential subjectivity is evidence of fresh author reflexivity. The organizing context presented here is one calling for exceptional attributes and skills. The ability to recognize and integrate the constituent ingredients for organizational flow are interwoven through most of the chapters as organizational order, symbiosis, behavioural harmony, and inter-connectivity. As Louis A. Allen initiated decades ago, the challenge remains one of making it happen with economy and harmony. The question begs whether it is trainable, or merely shaped, provided the fundamental substance naturally exists? Many useful perspectives are proffered throughout.