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The Leadership Dance: Pathways to Extraordinary Organizational Effectiveness

Richard N. Knowles

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  • Dee HockAuthor-published praise
    Knowles’s own publications page prints Hock’s signed praise for this work on organization and leadership. No completed-reading or adoption claim is made.
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Summary

Richard Knowles recounts his efforts to lead organizations through uncertainty. He presents his experience as a search for ways to help people work together, share information and take useful action when a fixed command structure is insufficient.

The book develops his approach to leadership and self-organization through that personal account. It is a practitioner’s argument from experience, which readers can compare with the conditions in their own workplace rather than treat as a guaranteed performance formula.

  • SourceThe Leadership Dance: Pathways to Extraordinary Organizational Effectiveness — checked content · Author’s Publications page, The Leadership Dance description and signed Dee Hock praise; bibliographic subtitle checked in Google Books record 5pwBAAAACAAJ.
  • SourceGoogle Books bibliographic record · Title, author, subtitle, Center for Self-Organizing Leadership, 2002.

Why read it Our view

Read it to ask where leadership opens or blocks the flow of information and initiative. Compare the author’s work setting with your own before adopting a method. Follow his examples as cases to question, and do not treat promotional improvement figures as a promised result.