Clear Leadership: Sustaining Real Collaboration and Partnership at Work

by Gervase R. Bushe

Overview

Cut through the "mush" to sustain and improve the quality of your partnerships at work.

Gervase R. Bushe named one of HR Magazine's Most Influential Thinkers 2016

What happened to that win-win partnership with your boss, colleage, or direct report that suddenly dissolved into mistrust and suspision? Despite your best intentions, how did hidden agendas, unresolved conflicts, and miscommunication get in the way?

With new research, fresh insight, and up-to-date examples of what it takes to collaborativelyy organize and sustain healthy relationships at work, this newly revised edition of Clear Leadership tackles these issues head-on. Building on the powerful concepts that made the first edition such a success, Gervase Bushe explains why even the most promising partnerships get derailed and what you can do about it.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780891063827
Publisher:	Mobius
Publication date:	02/16/2010
Edition description:	Revised Edition
Pages:	228
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Gervase R. Bushe, Ph.D. is president of Discovery & Design, Inc., a consulting firm serving clients globally, and professor of business administration at Simon Fraser University. His clients have included Shell Oil, General Motors, BC Telecom, and the Canadian government. The co-author of Parallel Learning Structures, Bushe has published award-winning articles in such publications as the Journal of Applied Behavioural Science and the Organization Development Journal. For information on Bushe's unique and highly experiential management development programmes, go to www.clearleadership.com.

Table of Contents

Preface to the Revised Edition ix

Acknowledgments xi

About the Author xiii

Introduction 1

1 Where Interpersonal Mush Comes From and What It Does to Organizations 19

2 Introduction to the Organizational Learning Conversation 49

3 Understanding the Foundations of Clear Leadership: Self-Differentiation 63

4 The Four Elements of Experience: The Experience Cube 91

5 The Aware Self: Knowing Your Experience Moment to Moment 109

6 The Descriptive Self: Reducing the Mush by Making Me Understandable to You 145

7 The Curious Self: Uncovering Other People's Experience 171

8 The Appreciative Self: Creating Spirals of Positive Partnership 201

9 The Learning Conversation in Depth 237

Conclusion: Learning to Sustain Collaborative Organizations 259

Appendix Research on the Impact of Clear Leadership in Organizations 271

Notes 283

Glossary 287

References 289

Index 291

Editorial Reviews

Makes leadership accessible to all, even the quiet, shy, avoid-eye-contact ones among us. It is also written with elegant simplicity. Buy it, read it, pass it around.—Peter Block, partner, Designed Learning; author, Community, the Structure of Belonging

Provides insights that will enable leaders to harness the productive energies their people bring while avoiding many of the traps that imprecise and incomplete communication can sometimes create.—Bill Pasmore, SVP and Organizational Practice Leader, The Center for Creative Leadership

Stands above the usual fare by speaking to leaders who truly care about their craft. It offers them a disciplined agenda for bringing their whole selves to work, and bringing the best out of their people and teams.—Philip Mirvis, psychologist; research fellow, Center for Corporate Citizenship; author, To the Desert and Back and Beyond Good Company

From the Publisher

There is great power in his idea that we construct the world and become effective when we get this, share this, and get interested in the stories of others. This book makes leadership accessible to all, even the quiet, shy, avoid-eye-contact ones among us. It is also written with elegant simplicity. Buy it, read it, pass it around.

Peter Block