A groundbreaking five-step framework for leadership transformation by a top consultant and a fresh approach for today's rapidly changing business world, The Leadership Wheel offers a vehicle for personal and organizational change. Sidle’s dynamic plan begins with a look into the inner work of leaders--the work of personal development--and then it turns to external challenges--of developing healthy relationships, teams, and organizations. Sidle reveals a unique and powerful system already embraced by companies around the world, with examples of leaders such as David Neeleman at JetBlue, and transformative exercises.
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"Clinton Sidle reminds us that leadership development is not merely a one-time event but a critically important journey for individuals, teams, and organizations--a demanding process that requires the cultivation of genuine self-knowledge. The Leadership Wheel's call for enlightened and socially responsible leadership will benefit managers and executives at all levels and challenge them to lead more authentically." -- John Alexander, President, Center for Creative Leadership
"The Leadership Wheel provides a vision of enlightened leadership by pulling together the three spokes of authentic leadership--the leader, the organization, and society--into one integrated process. The Leadership Wheel is a great tool to navigate leaders and organizations toward sustainable value creation." -- Kevin Cashman, CEO, LeaderSource and author of Leadership from the Inside Out and Awakening the Leader Within
"The Leadership Wheel reaffirms the critical importance of having the basis for leadership development being self awareness, self-discovery, and a deep inner journey that circles back through life to enhance one's self development, the development of others, and performance. The Leadership Wheel demonstrates through numerous exercises how leadership development can be learned each and every day."--Bruce Avolio, Director, Gallup Leadership Institute
"The Leadership Wheel reaffirms the critical importance of having the basis for leadership development being self awareness, self-discovery, and a deep inner journey that circles back through life to enhance one's self development, the development of others, and performance. The Leadership Wheel demonstrates through numerous exercises how leadership development can be learned each and every day."--Bruce Avolio, Director, Gallup Leadership Institute
"This book is worth reading for its very comprehensive and human way of viewing leadership. What gives even more value is the way Sidle shows precisely how to use the Wheel in working with teams and leaders. The book is a valuable asset for anyone committed to developing leaders."--Peter Block, author of The Answer to How Is Yes and Stewardship, and co-author, with Peter Koestenbaum, of Freedom and Accountability at Work
"The Leadership Wheel reveals an inspiring and original five point picture of what it takes to be an emotionally intelligent, resonant leader. Clint Sidle has managed to combine fresh and important insights with practical advice for developing resonant leaders, great teams, and vibrant, successful organizations. Great exercises!"--Annie McKee, Co-Chair of the Teleos Leadership Institute
"Clint Sidle's model offers an inspiring and genuinely new approach to servant leadership. This lively, engaging book challenges people to rethink their roles and the purposes of business. The Leadership Wheel clearly demonstrates that financial success and socially responsible business are not mutually exclusive. Best of all, chapter exercises guide the reader on how to make it happen at the individual, team, and organizational levels."--Ken Blanchard, co-author of The One Minute Manager® and The Servant Leader
" . . . if more business scholars and business people would actually practice the approach outlined by Sidle it just might revolutionize the way business is conducted because it would significantly alter the way leaders are trained and developed!" --Dr. David L. Luechauer and Dr. William B. Locander of Jacksonville University
About the Author
C. Clinton Sidle is director of the prestigious Park Leadership Program in the Johnson School of Management at Cornell University and a top consultant in strategic change, teambuilding, and leadership development. His program has been taught at universities such as Wharton and Duke. His consulting clients include Corning Inc., Kellogg, the American Red Cross, and many others.
For more information please visit www.clintsidle.org.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Spiritual insights for business leaders,
This review is from: The Leadership Wheel: Five Steps for Achieving Individual and Organizational Greatness (Hardcover)
C. Clinton Sidle finds leadership lessons in psychologist Carl Jung's categorization of human personality into archetypes based on ancient mythological symbols and in Jung's belief that each person travels on a "heroic journey" through life. Sidle adapts these Jungian ideas and the symbol of the wheel to create a paradigm of business leadership that individuals, teams and organizations can use to reach their goals. Because he tries to fit so many concepts into his wheel, readers may feel after a while that they are spinning in circles. Nonetheless, the book is loaded with useful exercises and examples. Although Sidle's approach is esoteric, we recommend it to managers with a spiritual bent who want to develop their leadership qualities and discover a style that suits them.
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This review is from: The Leadership Wheel: Five Steps for Achieving Individual and Organizational Greatness (Hardcover)
Highly recommended. Sidle has a unique perspective that blends mythology and ancient wisdom with current business leadership techniques. His philosophical approach hones in on the key psychological traits we must develop to be inspirational leaders. Be forewarned: the writing style is a bit more dense than the average leadership book.
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The premise of this book is that every culture from ancient times until recent have 5 different types of leaders each with their own strengths.
It's really dumb. I think it would be difficult to write a book that has as little insight as this one. The 5 different leadership types might as well be horoscopes. It's all just a bunch of made up stuff about leaders that Sidle claims MUST be true because it's all supposedly found in multiple cultures (which by the way he provides little evidence of other than anecdotes). I read this book because I was a candidate for a scholarship at Cornell which the author runs. I would not have read this otherwise and I would not recommend it to anyone. It's just silly. If you want to read a book about leadership read something by Carnegie - at least there's real advice in that one.
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Learning Wheel, Knowing the World, Awakening the Heart, Embodying the Way, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Native American, Malden Mills, Peter Senge, General Learning Tactics, Herman Miller, Tom's of Maine, Carl Jung, Cornell University, Daniel Goleman, Personal Learning Example New!
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