Developing Strong Leadership Capabilities

Innovative Leadership Fieldbook is a leading text for managers, executives and individual contributors providing a combination of well-researched theory with practical business case studies. Authors Maureen Metcalf and Mark Palmer define leadership from a thoughtful, new perspective and provide six-step process for developing strong leadership qualities.

“Leadership needs innovation the way innovation demands leadership, and by combining them you can improve your capacity to deliver results,” as explained in this book.

An innovative leader is defined as someone who consistently delivers results using the following:

Strategic leadership that inspires individual goals and organizations vision and cultures;
Tactical leadership that influences an individual’s actions and the organizations systems.
Holistic Leadership that aligns all key dimensions: Individual, culture, action and systems.

This book, divided into twelve chapters, skillfully weaves the journeys of two executive leaders and one middle manager on their paths of developing innovative leadership qualities and implementing change in their organizations. These leaders encounter their own unique challenges, organizational cultures and outcomes which provide invaluable insight into developing innovative leaders.