Leadership Divided: What Emerging Leaders Need and What You Might Be Missing »

Ron A. Carucci is a founding partner with Passages Consulting, LLC, where he works with CEOs and senior executives in pursuit of profound organizational change and executive leadership capability. He is Graduate Professor of Leadership at Mars Hill Graduate School in Seattle. He is also a faculty member at Fordham University, serving as associate professor of organizational behavior, and has served as an adjunct at the Center for Creative Leadership. His clients have included Edward Jones Investments, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Amgen, McDonald's, PepsiCo, Gates Corporation, Accenture, and many others. He is a frequent conference and keynote speaker, addressing a wide variety of audiences.

Many organizations are floundering in their attempts to identify their next generation of leaders, and are claimingthat this seeming shortfall has created a "crisis of leadership."But is there really a crisis? Can today's leaders ensure thattheir organizations will continue to produce powerful leaders for tomorrow?

The answer is yes! And Leadership Divided will show you how.

A sea change has taken place throughout the culture of leadership; emerging leaders are "opting out" of the same positions their predecessors coveted in years past. But many senior managers trained in traditional leadership still hang on to outdated individualistic approaches, despite how much they've heard about "empowerment" and "inclusion." Leadership-Divided shows how senior leaders can connect to the'emerging leaders that are yet to be discovered within their organizations.

Written by Ron Carucci-a leading business consultant who has had the ear of many of America's leading CEOs and leadership teams' Leadership Divided tells the fictional suspense story of Brookreme Corporation, whose leaders are struggling to chart a course to the future. The story is a lesson in the kinds of relationships that can form between today's and tomorrow's leaders relationships that can transform organizations. Using real cases and the voices of CEOs and senior executives, Leadership Divided provides compelling real-life examples of how such relationships enable organizations to outperform others.

With both compelling storytelling and hard-hitting research, Leadership Divided serves as a wake-up call for leaders across industries. The author shows how today's emerging leaders have disengaged from the organizations and potential mentors who might support them; he reveals how new kinds of strong relationships are the key to the future. Leadership Divided goes a long way to reconnecting generations and offers instructions for both incumbent and emerging leaders on how to build alliances that will lead to success.

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Carucci (leadership, Mars Hill Graduate Sch., Seattle) returns to the subject of management relationships, which he explored in The Value-Creating Consultant, here focusing on purely internal relationships. What emerges is a slim volume of advice for "incumbent leaders" regarding "emerging leaders." His points make sense for the most part, as he accurately describes a younger generation of managers as highly mistrustful of their own managers and averse to taking on leadership positions because of a very strong perception of risk. Carucci's central thesis is that the emerging leaders have already decided against following a traditional management/leadership mold, so traditional managers must break specific habits in order to retain needed talent. Each chapter focuses on a specific management trait and is framed by a fictional case study that Carucci admits is a best-case scenario. Unfortunately, the table of contents and chapter titles are not descriptive, and many of the lessons are superficial. A decent addition for larger leadership and management collections, but there's nothing groundbreaking here. Brian Walton, Rolling Meadows Lib., IL Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Foreword (Mike Roberts).

Introduction: Estuary.

1 A Level Playing Field: The Death of Rank, The Dare of Exposure.

2 A Great Cup of Coffee: The Death of Veneer, The Dare of Depth.

3 A Voice at the Table: The Death of Deception, The Dare of Invitation.

4 An Imaginative Dream: The Death of Monotony, The Dare of Dreaming.

5 A Diamond in Formation: The Death of Arrogance, The Dare of Generosity.

6 A Grateful Champion: The Death of Patronizing, The Dare of Gratitude.

Epilogue: Bridging the Divide; Go First to the Estuary.

References and Resources.

Acknowledgments.

The Author.