How Great Leaders Think

The proven model that offers powerful and elegant strategies for
leaders
How Great Leaders Think: the Art of Reframing uses
compelling, contemporary examples to show how more complex thinking
is the key to better leadership. Leaders who understand what's
going on around them see what they need to do to achieve the
results they want. Bolman and Deal's influential four-frame model
of leadership and organizations--developed in their
bestselling book, Reframing Organizations: Artistry Choice and
Leadership--offers leaders an accessible guide for
understanding four major aspects of organizational life: structure,
people, politics, and culture. Tapping into the complexity enables
leaders to decode the messy world in which they live, see more
options, tell better stories, and find strategies that are more
effective. Case examples of leaders like Jeff Bezos at Amazon,
Howard Schultz at Starbucks, Tony Hsieh at Zappos, Ursula Burns at
Xerox, and the late Steve Jobs at Apple provide concrete lessons
that readers can put to use in their own leadership. The book's
lessons include:
* How to use structural tools to organize teams and organizations
for better results
* How to build motivation and morale by aligning organizations
and people
* How to map the terrain and build a power base to navigate the
political dynamics in organizations
* How to develop a leadership story that shapes culture, provides
direction, and inspires commitment to excellence

LEE G. BOLMAN holds the Marion Block Missouri Chair in
Leadership at the Bloch School of Management, University of
Missouri-Kansas City. With Terrence Deal, Bolman is coauthor
of the bestselling book Reframing Organizations, now in its
5th edition. For twenty years, Bolman taught at the Harvard
Graduate School of Education.
TERRENCE E. DEAL is the founder of the Deal Leadership
Institute and has served on the faculties of Stanford, Harvard,
Vanderbilt, and the University of Southern California. He is the
author or coauthor of twenty-seven books, including the bestseller
Corporate Cultures, as well as numerous articles on
organizations, change, and leadership.