Leadership from the Inside Out [Paperback]

Kevin Cashman (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1890009318 | ISBN-13: 978-1890009311 | Publication Date: October 1, 1999 | Edition: 1st

Takes on a whole-person approach to leadership that is multidimensional and interdisciplinary.

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Praise for Leadership from the Inside Out

"Research on leadership is clear: leaders must move from task-specific expertise to personal, interpersonal, and strategic excellence to succeed. Cashman's Leadership from the Inside Out gives you both deep and pragmatic practices to help make this crucial leadership transition."
--Kenneth R. Brousseau, PhD, CEO, Decision Dynamics LLC

"Kevin Cashman knows people can change, but to really improve the outside, every person needs to understand what's on the inside. This book walks you through a step-by-step process of self-discovery. Anyone who is serious about personal improvement should contemplate the questions posed by this book."
--Joseph Folkman, coauthor of The Extraordinary Leader

"Kevin Cashman's message of staying resilient is critically relevant in today's high-change, high-stress marketplace. Leadership from the Inside Out provides a set of tools for managing energy and personal engagement, crucial to stay ahead of the game of leading and living."
--Jim Loehr, CEO, Human Performance Institute, and coauthor of The Power of Full Engagement

"Sooner or later, every leader who would like to lead more effectively finds himself blocked. Kevin Cashman's book illuminates how we can find the means within ourselves to identify and remove these barriers in order to fulfill our leadership destiny."
--J.P. Donlon, Editor-in-Chief, Chief Executive

"As leaders, we all need to grow from technical-functional expertise to personal-interpersonal excellence. Leadership from the Inside Out shows us impactful ways to take this journey with integrity and respect for all those we serve."
--Juergen Brokatzky-Geiger, PhD, Head of Human Resources, Novartis International AG

"Bolstered by strong science and the refined art of leadership development, few books so clearly bring the many aspects of our lives into alignment. Whether you're taking your own talent or that of others to the next level, Leadership from the Inside Out provides an abundance of tools for authentic, long-term success."
--Ana Dutra, CEO, Leadership Development Solutions, Korn/Ferry International

"No matter your professional arena, self-understanding and team trust are key to enduring success. Leadership from the Inside Out has brought out the best in our team, showing how our far-reaching talents, values, and experiences all directly fuel performance."
--Mark Cohon, Commissioner, Canadian Football League

"Leadership from the Inside Out has produced something any manager should admire: long-term value. As a former national bestseller and perennial member on our monthly bestseller list, Cashman's classic has provoked positive change in leaders of all types and backgrounds for years. This revised and expanded work takes the timeless principles first introduced ten years ago and brings them to life for the next generation of leaders through new examples, new research, and new meaning."
--Jack Covert, President and Founder, 800-CEO-READ

"Leadership from the Inside Out captures the latest research, the best development model, and the most comprehensive leadership practices to pragmatically and positively impact leadership effectiveness. It has been the foundation for a decade of effective and life-changing coaching with executives around the world."
--Dee Gaeddert, PhD, President, Lominger International, a Korn/Ferry Company

"From the moment I read the first draft of this book, I knew Kevin Cashman had created a classic. His timeless book continues to stand out in a crowded field of leadership literature because it is both principled and practical. Buy it, read it, and apply it to progress."
--Ken Shelton, Editor, Executive Excellence

"Cashman is perfecting the wisdom first conveyed a decade ago: there is a concomitant relationship between our internal selves and our external results. Leadership from the Inside Out masterfully bridges the gap between our too severed business lives and personal lives."
--Arvinder Dhesi, Group Talent Management Director, Aviva

"Cashman's second edition of Leadership from the Inside Out blends the latest research and the latest tools to give global leaders what they need in today's competitive marketplace. A must-read for the global leader of today!"
--Lawrence P. Clark, PhD, Director, Korn/Ferry Institute

"Kevin Cashman's integrated leadership approach inspired my personal and professional transformation. The tools encouraged and still guide me to honor all parts of my self, to connect authentically with others, and to lead with an enriched sense of service."
--Pablo Gaito, Global Leader, Learning & Development, Cargill, Inc.

"A prosperous business relies not only on the design plan from top management but on the strengths and interconnectivity of its many individual parts. Leadership from the Inside Out boils down the fundamental elements of understanding human capital and has given us strategic capacity to incubate talent from within."
--Richard P. Kearns, Chief Administrative Officer, Zurich Financial Services

"Leadership from the Inside Out is one of the leadership classics. While it was one of the first business books to capture the crucial link between personal growth and leadership development, it is as relevant today as it was a decade ago. If you read the first one, then you will like this new edition even more!"
--Kevin Wilde, Chief Learning Officer, General Mills, Inc.

"Leadership from the Inside Out is a major paradigm shift in leadership development. It gives you the tools to go directly to the heart of all significant leadership transformation: growing as a person to grow as a leader."
--Paul Walsh, CEO, Diageo, and former Chairman and CEO, The Pillsbury Company

"Leadership from the Inside Out serves as an important wake-up call for those who are ready to unleash the power of authentic leadership."
--Ken Melrose, University of St. Thomas Holloran Endowed Chair in the Practice of Management; former Chairman and CEO, The Toro Company; and author of Making the Grass Greener on Your Side: A CEO's Journey to Leading by Serving

"True adventure always involves the exploration of one's innermost spirit. Leadership from the Inside Out is a compass that helps you navigate this hidden domain as a means to bring out full leadership capacity with honesty and renewed energy."
--Ann Bancroft, polar explorer (first woman to reach the North and South Poles) and Founder, Ann Bancroft Foundation

"If you want personal transformation, then buy Leadership from the Inside Out. It will guide you through the unexplored territories we often miss in our frenetic-paced business world."
--Trudy Rautio, Executive Vice President and CFO, Carlson Hospitality Worldwide

"Leadership from the Inside Out is a testament to the too often forgotten reality that leadership success comes from living your deepest purpose and values as you earn followers, starting with the person in the mirror."
--Vance Caesar, PhD, leadership coach and mentor, The Vance Caesar Group, and Professor, Pepperdine University

"In the dozen years I have known Kevin Cashman, he has consistently made his work a masterpiece in the art of leading on purpose. His new edition is an intriguing guide to this art, and it inspires us to take it to the next level."
--Richard J. Leider, Founder, The Inventure Group; author of The Power of Purpose; and coauthor of Repacking Your Bags and Something to Live For

"Authentic leadership lies at the intersection of our deepest spiritual values and our greatest personal gifts. Cashman's new edition of Leadership from the Inside Out invites you to live at this important crossroads by cultivating the habits and skills needed to enrich your professional life while fostering opportunities for rich and satisfying personal development."
--Brother Dietrich Reinhart, OSB, President, Saint John's University, Collegeville, Minnesota

"Breakthroughs in neuroscience and the plasticity of the brain directly connect to Leadership from the Inside Out principles and coaching model. The book gives us the tools we need for leaders to grow and develop." --Marcelo Montero, President, Health and Nutrition, Cargill, Inc.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

From the Back Cover

Grow the Whole Person--Grow the Whole Leader

Leadership from the Inside Out, Kevin Cashman's breakthrough business bestseller that clearly connected personal growth to leadership effectiveness, is now completely revised and updated with:

* an explosion of new validating independent research
* impressive new case studies
* new tools and practices
* an even more powerful virtual coaching experience

Still framed in seven simple yet profound "mastery areas," this book serves as an integrated coaching experience that helps leaders understand how to harness their authentic, value-creating influence and elevate their impact as individuals, in teams, and in organizations. Cashman demonstrates that his trademark "whole-person" approach--we lead by virtue of who we are--is essential to sustained success in today's talent-starved marketplace and provides a measurable return on investment. For everyone from CEOs to emerging leaders, this long-awaited second edition advances the art and science of leadership and is even more relevant today than when it was first published.

"This book has no shelf life. Eternal truths."
--Warren Bennis, Distinguished Professor of Business, University of Southern California: author of On Becoming a Leader; and coauthor of Leaders and Judgment

"In this new edition, Kevin Cashman demonstrates convincingly why authenticity in leadership is essential for effectiveness. His process of developing this leader from within provides readers the road map to transform themselves and their organizations."
--Bill George, author of True North: Professor of Management Practice, Harvard Business School: and former Chairman and CEO, Medtronic

"Leadership from the Inside Out gets to the heart of what we face as global leaders in today's complex world: the ability to have people reach beyond themselves, achieving great results by integrating purpose, knowledge and personal growth."
--Daniel Vasella, MD, Chairman and CEO, Novartis AG

"Today's top talent can spot a phony a mile away. Trust is hard to build and easy to lose. Cashman's resounding message is one of truth and honesty, critical enablers of trust, commitment, and ultimately, great performance."
--Michael A. Peel, Executive Vice President, Human Resources and Business Services, General Mills, Inc.

"Finding and developing talent will be the keystone to sustaining organizational success in the coming decades. Cashman's classic book gives you the research, the tools, and the know-how to develop, retain, and optimize your key talent in today's hypercompetitive, global marketplace."
--Gary Burnison, CEO, Korn/Ferry International

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 224 pages
• Publisher: Executive Excellence Publishing; 1st edition (October 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1890009318
• ISBN-13: 978-1890009311
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.9 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (42 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #784,002 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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53 of 54 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It is about both leadership and personal development., June 22, 2000

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Turgay BUGDACIGIL (Istanbul, Turkey) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Leadership from the Inside Out (Paperback)

"While reading this book you may think, 'Is this book about leadership, or is it about personal development?' It's about both". Kevin Cashman writes, "As much as we try to separate the leader from the person, the two are totally inseparable. Unfortunately, many people tend to split off the 'act of leadership' from the person. We tend to view leadership as an external event. We see it only as something people do. The view of this book is different. Leadership is not simply something we do. It comes from somewhere inside us. Leadership is a process, an intimate expression of who we are. It is our being in action. Our being, our personhood, says as much about us a leader as the act of leading itself. Paul Walsh, Chairman and CEO of Pillsbury, recently told me, 'The missing link in leadership development is growing the person to grow the leader'. As we grow, so shall we lead...As we learn to master our growth as a person, we will be on the path to mastery of Leadership from the Inside Out" (pp.18-19).

Within this framework, Kevin Cashman identifies seven pathways to mastery of Leadership from the Inside Out. He says that "These pathways to mastery are not stages of development arranged in a sequential or hierarchical order. Rather, they are an ongoing, interrelated growth process in which the pathways constantly are illuminating one another" (pp.28-29).

1. Personal Mastery / Leading Through Authentic Self-Expession: It is the onging commitment to unfolding and authenticaly expressing who we are.

Principles: Take total responsibility, practice personal mastery with others, bring beliefs to conscious awareness, develop awareness of character and persona, listen to feedback, consider finding a coaching process, and be flexible.

2. Purpose Mastery / Leading by Expressing Our Gifts to Create Value: It is the ongoing discovery of how we express our gifts to add life-enriching value to the world.

Principles: Focus on how to make a difference, get in touch with your values, act "on-purpose", be purposeful in all domains, encourage others to find purpose, seek the goal, learn from "failure", and be flexible.

3. Change Mastery / Leading in the Flow: It involves embracing the purposeful learning contained in the unending, creative flow of life.

Principles: Be open to learning, practice present-moment awareness, integrate immediate focus and broad awareness, trust yourself, develop resiliency through mental-emotional stretching, practice the change mastery shifts, and take the leap.

4. Interpersonal Mastery / Leading Through Synergy: It is the dynamic blending of personal power with synergy power to create value and contribution.

Principles: Build relationship bridges, balance personal power with synergy power and contribution power, build awareness of intention-perception gap, personal mastery and interpersonal mastery are intimately connected, become aware of your structure of interpretation, and practice the five touchstones (know yourself, listen, express, appreciate, serve) to authentic leadership.

5. Being Mastery / Leading Through Being: It is connecting with the silence and peace of the innermost depth of one's character to support more dynamism, effectiveness, and contribution.

Principles: Take your own journey into being, resolve life challenges by going to a deeper level, consider learning to mediate, and integrate more reflection into your life.

6. Balance Mastery / Leading by Centering Our Life: It is the dynamic centering of our life to build resilience and to enhance effectiveness and fulfillment.

Principles: Choose wisely, be on-purpose, rest and reflect more, exercise for enjoyment, simplify your life, and loosen up.

7. Action Mastery / Leading as a Whole Person: It is the ongoing commitment to creating value through enhanced authenticity and self-expression.

Principles: Seek the most essential first, approach growth and development as an integrated, lifelong process, take total responsibility, value consistency over intensity, set aside worry, doubts, and negativity, don't just walk the talk, become the talk, and build awareness through inside out journaling.

Finally, Kevin Cashman argues that "Certainly the principal purpose of Leadership from the Inside Out is to give people tools for personal growth and transformation leading to leadership growth and transformation. But its true potential contribution is more than that. Its purpose is more than just helping a bunch of seperate individuals to grow...Growth is fulfilling as it touches and enriches the lives of others" (p.203).

I highly recommend.

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars weLEAD Book Review from the Editor of leadingtoday.org, November 11, 2002

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Greg L. Thomas (Litchfield, Ohio United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Leadership from the Inside Out (Paperback)

Some authors approach the subject of leadership from an external perspective. They define leadership as qualities, traits and skills. Other authors approach the subject from an internal perspective. They define leadership as a reflection of what lies inside the heart of the leader. Author and consultant Kevin Cashman uses the later approach with great success and clarity. Leadership From The Inside Out reads like you are having a one-on-one discussion with the author over a fine meal. It speaks to the heart because it defines leadership as a "process, an intimate expression of who we are." Cashman reminds us immediately that "we are the CEO's of our own lives" and we are on an ongoing journey to express and unravel our inner selves to make a positive impact within the world we live.

From beginning to end, Leadership From The Inside Out is intended to be a journey of self-discovery. In the first chapter Cashman begins to explore three essential questions to enhance our leadership effectiveness. He presents these as 1) How authentic are we as a leader? 2) How deep and broad is our self-expression? and 3) How much value are we creating? One of the major goals of the book is to help the reader to connect with their essential character, their central core in order to create effective leadership development. The end result is that the reader learns to no longer define their identity by the mere external results of their life, which are vulnerable, at risk and fragile.

To offer a new perspective on personal growth, Leadership From The Inside Out strategically leads the reader down seven "pathways" to discover the mastery of leadership from within. These pathways are articulated as personal mastery, purpose mastery, change mastery, interpersonal mastery, being mastery, balance mastery and action mastery. Cashman and his associates, LeaderSource, have developed these pathways as the "distilled insights from working with hundreds of leaders". Leadership From The Inside Out also encourages the reader to establish a leadership journal and offers numerous quotations throughout the text to provide additional insight.

This is a book that holds the promise to change you from within! At weLEAD, we have read hundreds of books on the subject of leadership from every possible perspective. However, if you are looking for a book that offers positive insight, encouragement and the real potential to gain a significant leadership transformation, Leadership From The Inside Out is it!

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A great book!, October 8, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Leadership from the Inside Out (Paperback)

Kevin Cashman, founder and CEO of LeaderSource, an executive coaching firm based in Minneapolis, MN has chronicled his dynamic training perspectives Pathways to Mastery (1998). With a prestigious client list to his credit, Kevin's unique efforts are potent due to their comprehensive focus on cultivating the core of being and potential, the inner self, versus simply developing extraneous skill sets and behavior modifications. As rightly stated on the jacket cover, "..most books on leadership see leadership as only as something we do rather than as an expression of who we are... we learn what to do instead of how to be. This book is different-it gives you self-expression that creates value." Knowing Kevin as I do, informally but over time, I've had occasion to casually chat about spiritual philosophies that we both cherish. I truly believe he has a marvelous gift, the ability to convey these oft-elusive principles in a manner both understandable and practically applicable. If there were one book that hits the nail of self-development and leadership on the head, I'd say this is it