1.5 - About University

If you are…Here is how this book will help you:➠ an educator ✓ For introductory leadership courses, this book, organized into coherent sections forstudy modules, provides overviews of all the major topics in the field.✓ This book is one students will carry from the desks of academia to the desks ofindustry.➠ a leadership coach ormentor✓✓So, you’ve been asked to coach. This book provides the basis for over 130 coachingmeetings!For each coaching meeting, pick a pertinent leadership tool, read and discuss thebrief description together, then plan an application using the ideas in the book.H OW TO FIND WHAT YOU NEED ( WHEN YOU NEED IT)Our goal is to provide just-in-time assistance for typical leadership concerns.Information SourceA traditional table of contentsAn annotated table of contents with a brief description of each leadership toolLocation:page vpage xiA traditional keyword index page 476A listing of typical leadership concerns matched to book resources: “Here’s my problem.What tool do I need?”Leadership Gurus matched to the topics they inspiredpage xxvipage xxviiiLeadership tools have been gathered into 15 sections. Within each section, leadership toolshave been arranged from general to specific. You may wish to browse an entire section to findprecisely what you need, or just browse the expanded table of contents.W HY THIS BOOK?Cycle times are shorter. “Work smarter, not harder!” “Cut the organizational fat.” Change ischanging more rapidly. Moore’s Law has microprocessors doubling in performance every 18months. The information age seems to be verging on the chaos age. Even slogans are gettingshorter!Our response: “We’ve done your homework!” We’ve summarized over 130 of the most usefulleadership tools, and we present them here in an easy-to-use format. We have highlightedcore ideas of leadership—both classic and modern—and made it easy for you to apply them.Like a dictionary, this is a reference you can leave at hand, ready to use, with models and ideasfor most of your leadership needs and questions.W HAT WE’ VE DONE FOR YOUWe’ve included tools that we use regularly in our leadership roles, those we consider to be themost useful and enduring tools of the leadership trade. We’ve condensed them, so you canxxivH OW TO U SE AND B ENEFIT FROM THIS B OOK