You're A Genius: Using Reflective Practice to Master the Craft of Leadership (Human Resource Management and Organizational Behavior Collection) - Softcover

Steven S. Taylor (author)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1631572946 ISBN 13: 9781631572944

Publisher: Business Expert Press, 2015

Synopsis

If you want to excel at any art form, you have to master the craft. Artists spend years mastering their craft and then their whole lives working on that craft. The same is true for professional athletes. If you want to practice the art of leadership, you have to master the craft of leadership. What is the craft of leadership? Leadership is the craft of working with other humans in order to motivate and inspire them to complete their tasks and reach their goals. This is a "how-to" book for learning the techniques of reflective practice in the action science and action inquiry traditions in order to develop and practice that craft. The book explains how to use various tools, such as the Ladder of Inference, the Learning Pathways Grid, and the Change Immunity Map, for offline reflection and active experimentation in order to develop and practice the craft of leadership.

About this title

About the Author

Steven S. Taylor studied both action science with Diana Smith and action inquiry with William Torbert while a doctoral student at Boston College. He took the Change Immunity Map facilitator course from Robert Kegan and Lisa Lahey. Taylor has been teaching leadership using these various approaches to reflective practice since receiving his PhD in 2000. He has published chapters on this approach in all three editions of the Handbook of Action Research (2001, 2008, 2015).

Edition details

• Publisher: Business Expert Press
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1631572946
• ISBN 13: 9781631572944
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 180