Leadership Lessons from the Death Zone
A Review of Chris Warner and Don Schmincke’s High-Altitude Leadership: What the World’s Most Forbidding Peaks Teach Us About Success, Jossey-Bass, 2008
Regina Schulte-Ladbeck
Climbing mountains is not a sport; it is a lifestyle. I am convinced of this because I am a rock climber myself. The peaks I have scaled are tiny compared to Mt. Everest. I have climbed no higher than a few thousand feet, never above the 26,000 feet mark that …
All it takes are six little words to catch and hold an individual’s attention. “Let me tell you a story.”
You will be glad to realize that you already know exactly when to apply the “learning platform” that Kegan and Lahey have presented in this book.
How we think. For many people, this may
Debbe Kennedy has produced a remarkable book, Putting Our Differences to Work, in which she provides a convincing case for the importance of differences at work for fostering innovation. She also offers a framework for engaging differences and putting them to work to foster changes in organizations (in all domains) that are essential in engaging effectively and developmentally with …
Benson, Randall (2009). The Quest Effect: Mastering Breakthrough in Your Organization.
Who is the hero, that more-than-life-sized figure of myth and history and fairy tale; the conqueror of evil, the liberator, the rescuer of the oppressed? How terrible to think of not being the hero of one’s own life; this is the role for which each of us is cast, no matter how unsuccessfully we play it. And if the part seems too …
Don Dunoon, In the Leadership Mode. Vancouver, Canada: Trafford Publishers, 2008.
Sara Nora Ross, “Fractal Transition Steps To Fractal Stages: The Dynamics of Evolution, II,” World Futures, Vol. 64 Nos. 05–07 (2008); and “Perspectives On Troubled Interactions: What Happened When A Small Group Began To Address Its Community’s Adversarial Political Culture, “ Integral Review, http://integral-review.org/back_issues/backissue2/index.htm
