The Leadership Wheel: Five Steps for Achieving Individual and Organizational Greatness

253 Pages·2005·1.01 MB·English

by  C. Clinton Sidle

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THE LEADERSHIP WHEEL
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THE LEADERSHIP WHEEL
Five Steps for Achieving Individual
and Organizational Greatness
C. Clinton Sidle
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THELEADERSHIPWHEEL
Copyright © C.Clint Sidle,2005.
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Sidle,C.Clinton
The leadership wheel : five steps for achieving individual and organizational greatness /
C.Clinton Sidle.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 1–4039–6919–1 (alk.paper)
1. Leadership. 2. Organizational effectiveness. I. Title.
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TO AUBRYN AND CONNOR
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CONTENTS
List of Figures ix
Acknowledgements xi
Introduction 1
Chapter 1 The Heroic Journey and
the Creation of Enlightened Society 11
Chapter 2 The Leadership Wheel and
the Wisdom of the Five Directions 37
Chapter 3 Discovering Leadership:
Awakening the Power Within 85
Chapter 4 Turning the Wheel I:
Tapping the Wisdom of Teams 133
Chapter 5 Turning the Wheel II:
Creating Enlightened Organizations 169
Chapter 6 The Heroic Journey in Organizations:
Designing the Total Experience 213
For More Information 223
Notes 225
Index 233
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LIST OF FIGURES
I.1 The Leadership Wheel 8
1.1 Sample Timeline 33
2.1 The Ancient Paradigm 43
2.2 The Wheel: Each Direction Contains Others 67
2.3 The Leadership Wheel 68
3.1 The Learning Wheel 91
3.2 The Spiral of Learning 104
4.1 The Team Action Learning Wheel 147
4.2 The Team Problem-Solving Wheel 167
5.1 The Systems Learning Wheel 197