Description: This book elaborates on leadership dilemmas and solutions within real-life contexts utilizing a "systems" perspective in which leaders and their followers co-create their mutually interdependent relationships. Included are issues of political, corporate, educational, terrorist...
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"These cogently edited papers by experienced and knowledgeable experts in their special disciplines explore and illuminate the co-creation of leadership in various kinds of social systems, ranging from small therapy groups to nation-states. This is a timely, useful, and entirely relevant contribution to the knowledge and wisdom that humankind will desperately need for surviving the challenges of the 21st Century. This book makes creative use of societal trauma in exploring dynamics and solutions of leadership and conflict." --Earl Hopper, psychoanalyst and group analyst, London, and former president, International Association of Group Psychotherapy
"Klein, Rice and Schermer have provided a multi-authored book that offers a fresh and complex perspective on leadership. Readers will find themselves stimulated by its wealth of excellent ideas." --Walter Stone, past president of the American Group Psychotherapy Association "This remarkable work could not be more relevant or more timely. It is.a superb work to which outstanding scholars and leaders from diverse backgrounds have contributed. It is an exciting read and an invaluable introduction to current dynamic models and theories applied to a range of social, political, historic, and economic issues." --James S. Grotstein, psychoanalyst at University of California at Los Angeles "This volume stands on the cutting edge of applied group psychology, as it pertains to vital social issues. The innovative theme of the co-creation of leaders and groups permeates the chapters." --Howard D. Kibel, clinical professor of psychiatry at New York Medical College "If ever the world needed special leaders, it is now. So a book such as this one, which examines the qualities required for leadership in a variety of settings, is timely. Drs. Klein, Rice and Schermer have assembled a world-class team of contributors. Beginning with chapters on theories of groups and group leadership, this material comes alive in several case studies. This is an important book." --J. Scott Rutan, co-founder of Boston Institute for Psychotherapy "I recommend this book to anyone interested in large group contexts, such as consultants and organizational developers. In fact, all people working in organizations and institutions will find these articles about leadership and context helpful, especially if they begin to see themselves as the co-creators of leadership.... This book is a milestone on the path towards a changing paradigm for leadership, a paradigm that is needed in changing times. It is my hope that out of the readership will emerge future authors applying their own new knowledge and insight into leadership. The readership of the book is fundamental." --International Journal Of Group Psychotherapy