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Praise for The Wizard and the Warrior

"The Wizard and the Warrior will make us think carefully again about leadership in general and about our own style in particular."
—Walter F. Ulmer Jr., lieutenant general, U.S. Army (Ret.), former president and CEO, Center for Creative Leadership

"Bolman and Deal's The Wizard and the Warrior could be your secret weapon. Read. Learn. Then lead with confidence."
—Thomas Keller, The French Laundry

"The numerous examples of historical and contemporary figures and their life stories serve to bring leadership ideas alive in a way that few books achieve."
—Len Schlesinger, vice chairman and chief operating officer, Limited Brands

"Bolman and Deal have thrown their arms around the inspirational, on one hand, and the tough, practical, and sometimes brutal, on the other. Through wonderful stories, they convincingly illustrate the real challenges and possibilities of living life grounded by larger purposes and the courage to interrogate reality."
—Ronald A. Heifetz, Center for Public Leadership, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; author of Leadership Without Easy Answers and Leadership on the Line

"The 'gold standard' for looking at leadership. The Wizard and the Warrior is about fighting the good fight, but not losing sight of the magic—it is about making the word flesh. This is a must-read for anyone who cares about becoming a better leader."
—Paul D. Houston, executive director, American Association of School Administrators

"The book provokes the reader to understand the immeasurable potential of the wizard and warrior in each of us that can create change and challenge."
—John Keola Lake, kumu-in-residence, Chaminade University of Honolulu, Hawai'i, head of Hawaiian traditions

"Provides in-depth insight into passion and power, and how they are the very essence of leadership."
—Terrence P. Dunn, chief executive officer, J.E. Dunn Construction Company

"What do wizards and warriors have to do with good leadership? A lot, it turns out. So hoist your inner sword or wand and let Bolman and Deal instruct you on how to wield it effectively, and on how notable combatants from Joan of Arc to Bill Gates have fared."
—John Alexander, president, Center for Creative Leadership

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Soundview Executive Book Summaries

Why use wizards and warriors as models for leadership? Because, as Peter Drucker once said, everything you learned is wrong — at best, it is misleading and insufficient. You typically learn in school, workshops and seminars that if you can manage the work and serve the people, you have what it takes. It’s not true. Maybe you have enough stuff to be a pretty good manager, but it takes much more to be a good leader.

A combined dose of magic and strength can make all the difference.

This book gives leaders the insight and courage they need to take risks on behalf of values they cherish and the people they guide. Great leaders must act both as wizard, calling on imagination, creativity, meaning and magic, and as warrior, mobilizing strength, courage and willingness to fight as necessary to fulfill their mission.

Confronting the Wizard and Warrior Within
Managers are running on two cylinders — structure and people — when they need four. Two other frames — political and symbolic – are required to make sense of the rolling, moving targets that organizations serve up every day. They take us into a world dominated by power and passion. The bad news: That’s just where managers are usually weakest. We know this from research and across sectors. Inattention to these two ways of thinking and behaving is a debilitating Achilles’ heel.

Thinking on Your Feet
Wizard and warrior are roles that you can choose to play and learn to play better. Wizard and warrior images are metaphors to help you think on your feet. When, for example, you are in dangerous and highly charged political situations, what are your options? There are three kinds of warrior — toxic, relentless and principled — and four key attributes that warriors need to be successful — mind, heart, skill and weapons.

When the culture of your enterprise needs tweaking or transforming, what are your wisest moves? There are three wizardly roles — authentic, wannabe and harmful — and specific ways leaders can inspire, deflate or destroy a company. To be successful, wizards need to discover their own magic and spiritual core and then summon the collective. One must also consider conflicting forces, however.

Conflicting Forces
There are four different roles in leadership:

  1. Analysts emphasize rationality, analysis, logic, facts and data.
  2. Caregivers emphasize the importance of people and relationships.
  3. Warriors believe that managers and leaders live in a world of conflict and scarce resources.
  4. Wizards bring imagination, insight, creativity, vision, meaning and magic to the work of leadership.


The Warrior Path
Regardless of the role they play, warriors succeed through a combination of four basic ingredients: heart, mind, skill and weapons. Heart gives warriors passion, courage and persistence — it is the "fire in the belly" — that propels them forward in the face of risk, confusion, danger and obstacles. Mind gives warriors the direction and guidance to make strategic moves on life’s ever-changing chessboard, avoiding snares, ambushes and blind alleys. Skill — developed through instruction and experience — determines how well leaders read and manage people and circumstances to move their cause forward. Weapons are the armory warrior leaders employ to champion their cause.

Wizard Roles: Authentic, Wannabe and Harmful
Throughout history, people have been fascinated by the magical power of wizards and wizardry. Wizards are part of an ensemble of players who devote themselves to the mystical, symbolic aspects of a tribe or organization. Other related roles include sorcerer, magician and shaman. What sets wizards apart is captured in the root meaning, "wise." In story and legend, we find numerous examples of three wizard archetypes, personified in the Lord of the Rings trilogy by Sauron, Gollum and Gandalf.

The Leader’s Journey: Fusing Warrior And Wizard
The wizard relies more heavily on magic and mystery, the warrior on strength and skill. These two distinct ways were personified in ancient Japan by the ninja, who relied on subtlety and artfulness, and the samurai, who emphasized power and physical prowess. But there was also strength in the ninja and some magic in the samurai. Copyright © 2006 Soundview Executive Book Summaries

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780787974138
  • Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
  • Publication date: 3/31/2006
  • Edition number: 1
  • Pages: 256
  • Sales rank: 210,836
  • Series: J-B US Non-Franchise Leadership Series , #12
  • Product dimensions: 5.90 (w) x 9.10 (h) x 1.10 (d)

Meet the Author

Lee G. Bolman holds the Marion Bloch/Missouri Chair in Leadership at the Bloch School of Business and Public Administration at the University of Missouri–Kansas City.

Terrence E. Deal retired as the Irving R. Melbo Clinical Professor of the University of Southern California's Rossier School of Education. He now writes and makes wine in San Luis Obispo, California.
Bolman and Deal are the coauthors of the best-selling books Reframing Organizations (now in its third edition) and Leading with Soul (now in its second edition), both from Jossey-Bass.

Table of Contents

PART ONE. CONFRONTING THE WIZARD AND WARRIOR WITHIN.

1. Light and Shadow: Richard Nixon and Mother Teresa.

2. Assessing Your Inner Wizard and Warrior.

PART TWO. TOXIC, RELENTLESS, AND PRINCIPLED WARRIORS.

3. The Toxic Warrior.

4. The Relentless Warrior.

5. The Principled Warrior.

PART THREE. THE WARRIOR PATH.

6. Warrior Heart.

7. Warrior Mind.

8. Warrior Skill.

9. Warrior Weapons.

PART FOUR. WIZARD ROLES: AUTHENTIC, WANNABE, AND HARMFUL.

10. The Authentic Wizard.

11. The Wannabe Wizard.

12. The Harmful Wizard.

PART FIVE. WIZARDS AT WORK.

13. The Wizard's Odyssey.

14. Summoning the Spirit.

PART SIX. THE LEADER'S JOURNEY: FUSING WARRIOR AND WIZARD.

15. Personal Journey: The Ninja and the Samurai.

16. Learning to Lead: The Genesis and Rebirth of IBM.

17. Leading With Courage and Faith: Joan of Arc.

18. Creative Confrontation: Willem "Tex" Gunning.

19. Promoting the Dream: Martin Luther King Jr..

20. Enhancing the Wizard and Warrior Within.

21. The Sword and the Wand.

Notes.

Acknowledgments.

The Authors.

Index.

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    The market may be saturated with books about business leadership, but Lee G. Bolman and Terrence E. Deal move into fresh territory with this beautifully written, inspirational and practical guide. They impart advice on understanding workplace dynamics and nuances, and emerging as an effective leader. The book offers ample evidence to support the authors' basic assertion: Managers struggle because they have an idealistic approach that fails to account for organizational politics and intangible workplace factors, such as values, creativity and passion. The authors contend that managers who are unwilling to 'play the game' will inevitably stumble and never realize their leadership potential. The book's wisdom and insight are built on the real-life lessons and experiences of dynamic leaders. We warmly praise this book and recommend it to any leader or potential leader who is willing to take a good, long look in the mirror.

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