The Techniques of Inner Leadership: Making Inner Leadership Work

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Leadership is fundamentally different from management, but traditional leadership skills were based on an ill-fitting, management-oriented model. When leadership is recognized as a discrete professional specialty, new techniques and methods are needed to operationalize the new values-based theories. In addition to distinguishing leadership from management, this book distinguishes inner leadership, practiced by those in the middle ranks, from leadership as practiced by the CEO. Inner leadership is an applied complex of specialized knowledge, theory, skills, attitudes, and attributes used to make things happen in the lives and behavior of other community members. The leader's goal is to cause followers to accept the leader's valuese.g., his or her standards of what are acceptable goals, behavior, and overall conductas their own. It is an intimate, personal, life-transforming task that resolves itself into a set of discrete techniquessets of attitudes, actions, and intentionsthat distinguish leaders from managers or other corporate workers. The special focus of the 21 leadership techniques presented here is on those unique methods of group interaction that characterize leadership activities in the middle of the corporation. These techniques represent a substantial body of inner leadership practice that differentiates leadership from all other group roles and functions.

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Is this book a must-read for today's senior members of the defense communityprobably not. Does it have a message or two that senior leaders need to listen to Definitely. Fairholm's laundry list it neither unique nor profound. Neverthelessm while the book emphasis on leadership techniques is aimed at mid-level leaders, the author makes the point that senior leaders need to create and enviornment that will allow the inner-leadership potential of people throughout the organization to flourish....As the author points out, management and leadership have been so interwoven through the years that most individuals are unable to seperate the two concepts. His point is that each has its own domain in organizational studies, and each is needed in today's organizational enviornment. Knowing the difference and properly employing the appropriate concepts is a must for successful organization, especially those in the defense community.-Parameters
"Is this book a must-read for today's senior members of the defense communityprobably not. Does it have a message or two that senior leaders need to listen to Definitely. Fairholm's laundry list it neither unique nor profound. Neverthelessm while the book emphasis on leadership techniques is aimed at mid-level leaders, the author makes the point that senior leaders need to create and enviornment that will allow the inner-leadership potential of people throughout the organization to flourish....As the author points out, management and leadership have been so interwoven through the years that most individuals are unable to seperate the two concepts. His point is that each has its own domain in organizational studies, and each is needed in today's organizational enviornment. Knowing the difference and properly employing the appropriate concepts is a must for successful organization, especially those in the defense community."-Parameters

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GILBERT W. FAIRHOLM is Adjunct Professor of Management Systems at the University of Richmond and Adjunct Professor of Leadership at Averett University. He is an emeritus member of the faculty of the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at Virginia Commonwealth University and a Senior Fellow of The George Washington University Center for Excellence in Municipal Management. A frequent consultant to business and government, he focuses on leadership training and development, strategic visioning, and community development.