Workplace Culture, Leadership, Management, Business & Finance 

"Why a book about wizards and warriors as models for leadership? Because, as Peter Drucker once said, everything you learned is wrong - at best, it is misleading and insufficient. You typically learn in school, workshops, and seminars that if you can manage the work and serve the people, you have what it takes. It's not true. Maybe you have enough stuff to be a pretty good manager, but it takes a lot more to be a good leader."
"The Wizard and the Warrior gives leaders the insight and courage they need to take risks on behalf of values they cherish and the people they guide. Great leaders must act both as wizard, calling on imagination creativity, meaning, and magic, and as warrior, mobilizing strength, courage, and willingness to fight as necessary to fulfill their mission."
"Best-selling authors Lee Bolman and Terrence Deal present the defining moments and experiences of exemplary leaders such as David Neeleman (CEO of Jet Blue), Mary Kay Ash, Warren Buffet, Anne Mulcahy, Thomas Keller (head chef of French Laundry), and Abraham Lincoln - all of whom have wrested with their own inner warrior and wizard. These engaging realistic case studies are followed by commentaries that will raise questions and suggest possibilities without rushing to resolution or simple answers."--Jacket. 

Contents:
Confronting the wizard and warrior within -- 1. Light and shadow : Mother Teresa and Richard Nixon -- 2. Assessing your inner wizard and warrior -- Part two: Warrior roles : toxic, relentless, and principled -- 3. The toxic warrior -- 4. The relentless warrior -- 5. The principled warrior -- Part three: The warrior path -- 6. Warrior heart -- 7. Warrior mind -- 8. Warrior skill -- 9. Warrior weapons -- Part four: Wizard roles : authentic, wannabe, and harmful -- 10. The authentic wizard -- 11. The wannabe wizard -- 12. The harmful wizard -- Part five : Wizards at work -- 13. The wizard's odyssey -- 14. Summoning the spirit -- Part six : The leader's journey : fusing warrior and wizard -- 15. Personal journey : the ninja and the samurai -- 16. Learning to lead : the genesis and rebirth of IBM -- 17. Leading with courage and faith : Joan of Arc -- 18. Creative confrontation : Willem "Tex" Gunning -- 19. Promoting the dream : Martin Luther King, Jr. -- 20. Enhancing the wizard and warrior within -- 21. The sword and the wand -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- The authors -- Index.