Narrative Leadership: Leading with Elegance, Efficiency, and Efficacy - Paperback

Narrative Leadership provides a simple framework to deal with the complexity of life and leadership in organizational systems. It enables leaders to understand the forces in action and what to do about them. It is based upon many of the latest developments in narrative psychology, complexity theory, and quality assurance. Narrative Leadership is a human model meant for leading real people in real organizations into 21st century innovation and creativity. Ordinarily leadership is a complex task. Leaders must balance external forces such as market pressures, supply needs, and competition, internal forces such as resource allocation, scheduling, and finance, and human forces such as politics, human needs, and organizing and leading people. A complex task that most leaders tend to oversimplify. One of the most common oversimplifications is to ignore the human side. Narrative Leadership helps the leader to balance human issues with organizational needs while optimizing the environment for innovation. In addition, using Narrative Leadership helps leaders to significantly reduce the stress and personal costs of leadership.