The pace of societal and business change continues to accelerate daily. In the new world of work, adaptive self-management, at scale, is no longer optional!Self-management is what actually scales business agility across the enterprise. Inviting Leadership & Invitation-Based Change are very specific leadership techniques that create the very conditions that are necessary for scaling genuine and authentic self-management across the entire enterprise. If you lead people in the workplace, a deep understanding of Inviting Leadership & Invitation-Based Change might be the most valuable leadership know-how you can develop. These skills are essential to survive and thrive as a leader in the new world of self-managed work. Part tutorial, part reference guide and part toolbox, this book contains everything you need to develop these valuable new skills. Inside, you'll find a complete kit that contains the underlying theory, very clearly described actionable guidance, and a toolbox of templates, diagrams, checklists and measurement tools. Everything you need to begin leading a self-managed workforce is here.

Writing from his own rich experiences--both successes and failures, Paul Tokunaga addresses the needs, difficulties, gifts and abilities that Asian Americans struggle with in leadership.

YOU'VE BEEN INVITED TO LEAD ... Deep down, everyone has the desire to lead. It may be driven by power, influence, or even control, but at the end of the day, we all desire to be part of the decision making process. Why? Because that's what will define our legacy. The decisions we make, the impact we create, the footprints we leave behind, will all determine our significance here on earth. Every day we are provided opportunities, or invitations, to lead. Unfortunately, our culture has taught us to minimize risk and protect our assets. Leadership, at its' core, challenges these ideas of safety and security. Leading others is to put them first and ourselves second. Growth, success, and most importantly significance, come when we step out of that safe area in our life, out of our comfort zone. You can't become someone you've never been before without doing something you've never done before. This picture of me with the little boy provided the inspiration for me to answer my invitation to lead and to write this book. In June of 2013, I stretched and stepped outside of my comfort zone and finally understood what my purpose was. A purpose to build what matters and what matters is people. The experience I had that afternoon in Guatemala City helped me to understand the difference between success and significance. Your significance will come from empowering and equipping others to realize theirs. Leadership by Invitation is about finding that significance that we are all capable of, yet rarely achieve. Someone out there is waiting for you to lead them, to believe in them. The time to answer your invitation is now. Leadership by Invitation - How to RSVP and Embrace Your Role as a LEADER will provide the "how" that you need to answer your invitation and become the influential leader you were created to be. ... WILL YOU SHOW UP?

On the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of her classic Leadership and the New Science, bestselling author Margaret Wheatley once again turns to the new science of living systems to help leaders persevere in a time of great turmoil. I know it is possible for leaders to use their power and influence, their insight and compassion, to lead people back to an understanding of who we are as human beings, to create the conditions for our basic human qualities of generosity, contribution, community and love to be evoked no matter what. I know it is possible to experience grace and joy in the midst of tragedy and loss. I know it is possible to create islands of sanity in the midst of wildly disruptive seas. I know it is possible because I have worked with leaders over many years in places that knew chaos and breakdown long before this moment. And I have studied enough history to know that such leaders always arise when they are most needed. Now it's our turn.

In this expanded edition of her spiritual formation classic, Ruth Haley Barton invites us to an honest exploration of what happens when spiritual leaders lose track of their souls. Weaving together contemporary illustrations with penetrating insight from the life of Moses, Barton explores topics such as facing the loneliness of leadership, leading from your authentic self, reenvisioning the promised land and more.

Much of our faith and practice is about words—preaching, teaching, talking with others. Yet all of these words are not enough to take us into the real presence of God. This book is an invitation to meet God deeply and fully through solitude and silence. This expanded edition includes a guide for groups to use for both discussion and practice.

A bestseller--more than 300,000 copies sold, translated into seventeen languages, and featured in the Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Miami Herald, Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, and Fortune; Shows how discoveries in quantum physics, biology, and chaos theory enable us to deal successfully with change and uncertainty in our organizations and our lives; Includes a new chapter on how the new sciences can help us understand and cope with some of the major social challenges of our timesWe live in a time of chaos, rich in potential for new possibilities. A new world is being born. We need new ideas, new ways of seeing, and new relationships to help us now. New science--the new discoveries in biology, chaos theory, and quantum physics that are changing our understanding of how the world works--offers this guidance. It describes a world where chaos is natural, where order exists ''for free.'' It displays the intricate webs of cooperation that connect us. It assures us that life seeks order, but uses messes to get there.Leadership and the New Science is the bestselling, most acclaimed, and most influential guide to applying the new science to organizations and management. In it, Wheatley describes how the new science radically alters our understanding of the world, and how it can teach us to live and work well together in these chaotic times. It will teach you how to move with greater certainty and easier grace into the new forms of organizations and communities that are taking shape.