Making Common Sense: Leadership As Meaning-Making in a Community of Practice [Paperback]

Wilfred H. Drath (Author), Charles J. Palus (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 27 pages
• Publisher: Center for Creative Leadership (May 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0912879971
• ISBN-13: 978-0912879970
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 6.9 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,024,368 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Amazed this has not been reviewed before, March 31, 2003

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Tom Boydell "inter-logics" (Sheffield UK) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Making Common Sense: Leadership As Meaning-Making in a Community of Practice (Paperback)

Yes I am indeed amazed that this has not been reviewed before. I read it when it first came out and have since given away many copies to clients and students. I was searching Amazon to see if it is still in print. I see that it is.

I think it is terrific. For me nearly 10 years ago it represented a major shift in thinking about leadership, seeing it not as influencing others to do what the leader wants but as helping a community to make meaning in their specific context.

This still is a radical shift - and as far as I am concerned the world would be a better place if it were more widespread. I haven't found any book since that presents such a radical change in such a short and simple way. A lot has been written about leadership in those 9 or 10 years, but I haven't found anything that really takes a new view.

Well perhaps there is - I see that the authors have (separately) written new things fairly recently, so now I will buy those and see where they have taken their thinking.....