1.5 - About University

ANNOTATED CONTENTSS ECTION 1—FOUNDATIONAL C ONCEPTS1.1 Leadership in the twenty-first century 2➥Assesses where you are now as a leader, where you would like to be, and actionsneeded to get you there.1.2 Contrasting management and leadership 5➥Helps leaders with an important distinction between management and leadership.1.3 How effective leaders act: An overview 8➥Moves leaders above their day-to-day leadership activities to take a bird’s-eye viewof the fundamentals and their leadership styles, strengths, and development needs.1.4 Principles to guide your use of leadership techniques 11➥Summarizes important principles for leaders and how to use them as a springboardfor developing beliefs, thinking, and action as a powerful leader.1.5 The basic habits and practices of successful leaders 15➥Helps leaders take specific leadership actions; inspired by Stephen Covey’s SevenHabits.1.6 Leadership: The boards of play 18➥Shows how leaders who can “play” at higher “board levels” necessarily have morepower and influence than those at the lower levels.1.7 The leadership results equation 21➥Helps leaders understand leadership attributes and how to make optimum use ofthese attributes to achieve four areas of results.1.8 Recursive leadership: The logic of leadership 25➥Extends, in a novel way, a mathematical and computing science term, recursion, toexplore some modeling aspects of effective leadership.1.9 Paradigms: Understanding the thinking behind your thinking 29➥Helps leaders understand, reflect on, and prepare for paradigm changes within aworkgroup, organization, or industry.xi