Level Three Leadership (2nd Edition) [Paperback]

James G. Clawson (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0130329436 | ISBN-13: 978-0130329431 | Publication Date: May 1, 2002 | Edition: 2

For MBA and upper-level undergraduate courses in Leadership, Organizational Behavior, and Change. This brief paperback outlines a practical, contemporary model for making a difference as a leader in the Information Age-one which goes well beyond the single, behavior-focused leadership style (Level One) typically associated with Industrial-Age organizations to encompass opportunities to influence people and their thinking (Level Two Leadership), and their values and basicassumptions about how the world operates (Level Three Leadership). Drawing on the work of a wide range of scholars and authors in the field of leadership and managing change, it integrates theory and practice to create the model and a set of related perspectives and concepts about how students can become better leaders not only in their own lives, but in their work group, and in their organizations. Questions for Reflection throughout and an innovative Workbook section help students explore their own values, assumptions, beliefs, and expectations about what it means to be an effective leader-and suggest ways to grow and develop their leadership skills.

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From the Back Cover

Providing readers with the practical perspectives that get below the surface of leadership!

In this second edition of Level Three Leadership, James G. Clawson expands on his original model to provide readers with the practical, rather than theoretical, perspectives of leadership. In this rapidly changing Information Age, the important shift for leaders is to influence people's values and assumptions rather than just their behavior or thoughts.

New in This Edition

• Chapter 6, "A Leader's Guide to Why People Behave the Way They Do," provides a model of human behavior, and presents the basis building blocks of Level Three analysis.
• Chapters on strategy, resonance, leading others, leading teams, organizational design, and leading change have all been updated to include emerging research and perspectives.
• The workbook section includes new instruments for assessing leadership and team characteristics.
• An appendix summarizing leadership theory has been added to give students a quick overview of the major perspectives currently being practiced.

About the Author

James G. Clawson is an Associate Professor at the Darden Graduate School of Business, University of Virginia, where he teaches in the MBA, Executive Education, and Doctoral programs. He has also taught at the Harvard Business School, Northeastern University, the International University of Japan, and in various countries throughout Europe, Africa, Australia, Asia, and North America. Dr. Clawson earned a DBA from the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration, an MBA from Brigham Young University, and a BA from Stanford University. His areas of research include leadership, managing change, mentoring, management development, and career management, and he is an active consultant in these areas to a variety of public- and private-sector organizations.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 356 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall; 2 edition (May 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0130329436
• ISBN-13: 978-0130329431
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 7.1 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,628,657 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Intriguing management advice with a New Age twist., October 30, 2006

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Rolf Dobelli "getAbstract" (Switzerland) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Level Three Leadership (3rd Edition) (Paperback)

At first glance, this might seem to be yet another standard text about management and employee relations. You'll be pleased to find that, instead, author James G. Clawson has written an engaging book about history, human psychology and the modern workplace. He offers intriguing insights, strong research and even a New Age wrinkle or two, with a few well-placed comments about meditation, inner vision and martial arts. Despite a few redundant passages, this is not a dry HR manual, though it provides helpful professional charts and summaries. With its you-need-to-know-this-now tone and its comments about gravity, magic and inner vision, the book is actually fun. We recommend it to managers at all tiers, to employees seeking advancement and to MBA candidates.

14 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Author's Comment, December 6, 1999

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James G. Clawson (Charlottesville, Virginia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Level Three Leadership: Getting Below the Surface (Paperback)

This book summarizes current, practical knowledge about what it means to be an effective leader. Leadership implies three major thrusts: strategic thinking (leadership for what?), relationship building (leading whom?) and designing an action context (organizational design issues) all discussed in the text. Further, the book asserts that leaders who target Level Three (core values, assumptions, beliefs, and expectations or VABEs) can be more effective and powerful than those who, traditionally, target Level One (focus on behavior) and Level Two (conscious thinking). The book also introduces the notion of INFOCRACIES, or organizations that are increasingly being redesigned by the information systems within them and presents a framework for thinking about developing deeper influence. As the author, clearly I'm biased, AND I've found that this approach has worked very well with many clients and executive education programs. The book was intended as a dense summary for executive education audiences in short, week long seminars. If you have suggestions, I'm eager to hear.

2.0 out of 5 stars Average at best, September 9, 2011

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David G Brown (BEDFORD, TEXAS, US) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Level Three Leadership: Getting Below the Surface (5th Edition) (Paperback)

This is a book on leadership but seems to just borrow leadership ideas from others. Nothing really new in the book. The author draws some simplistic diagrams that do not really do much to add to the concepts of leadership. This text was required for the master's class I am taking but there are bobetter texts that could have been used. Don't expect anything new or exciting out the book. I was reading an article about Chik-fil-A's development of a leadership program. In the article, Mark Miller, VP for Training and Development, mentioned that the Chik-fil-A staff working on the leadership development program read approximately 200 books on leadership. This would not have been one of the ones I would have recommended for that list.