Rating: 6
November 3, 2006
The flow of writing isn’t always coherent, but Jean Lipman-Blumen offers a handy framework of nine achievement styles. She further suggests that it is the use of being able to use all of these styles at different times that will set apart a connective leader — one who will be able to navigate the transitional waters of our postmodern time.
Her strongest call in the book (for me, at any rate) is a call to drama and meaning in our leadership. She’s writing a secular book, but know that we need calls to purpose and meaning in our every day work.
However, her attempts at meaning in this book through psycho-analytic assumptions aren’t compelling, even if they might possibly be true. In an attempt to apply her own model, it seems that she’s a better theorist than practitioner. But as a theorist, the model is really helpful and can make us aware of their blindspots in leadership.
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