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• Half-title
• Title
• Copyright
• DEDICATION
• CONTENTS
• FOREWORD
• PREFACE
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• INTRODUCTION
• CHAPTER 1 POWER
• What Is Power?
• Whenever Power Is Used Between People, Consequences Follow
• The Use of Stories in This Book
• Power Is Best Identified in One’s Own Inner Circle
• Genuine Dialogue Enables Leaders to Use Power Correctly
• When Leadership Changes, So Does the Environment
• Power and Its Many Forms
• What Is True Power, and How Do We Acquire It?
• Like Each Grain of Sand, People and Leaders are Unique
• Why the Most Qualified Candidate a Business Can Afford Should Be Hired
• How Does Power Influence Personal Relationships?
• How Mentors Can Help You Make the Best Use of Power
• Do We Know Ourselves?
• Where Is Power Not an Issue?
• Power and Hierarchy
• All Benefit When Power Is Used Well
• CHAPTER 2 TRUE ENTREPRENEURS
• What Drives True Entrepreneurs?
• True Entrepreneurs, In General
• Becoming a Successful Entrepreneur Takes Hard Work
• Entrepreneurs Need Mentors
• Power in the Hands of True Entrepreneurs
• Entrepreneurs Have Existed From the Beginning of History
• Growing from Entrepreneurs to Leaders
• More Stories and Lessons Learned
• Shifting Gears from Entrepreneurship to Leadership
• Genuine Dialogue is a Vital Dynamic for Entrepreneurship and Leadership
• Entrepreneurs and the Inner Circle
• Are Entrepreneurs Made or Born?
• CHAPTER 3 LEADERS
• Relationships between Leaders and Followers Are Vital
• We Know Our Leaders Better Than They Know Us
• Good Leadership Has the Brilliance and Flaws of a Unique Diamond
• Quality Leaders Rely on Genuine Dialogue and the Inner Circle
• A Quality Leader Is What We Learn to Be
• Leadership and Consequences
• A Review
• CHAPTER 4 ATTRIBUTES OF RELATIVELY ENLIGHTENED LEADERS
• Why the “Relatively” Enlightened Leader?
• Where Quality Attributes Come From
• General Thoughts on Attributes
• Relatively Enlightened Leaders Have Healthy Relationships
• Essential Attributes for the Enlightened Leader
• The Leader +Teacher + Student + Role Model
• CHAPTER 5 THE INNER CIRCLE (IC)
• Genuine Dialogue Is the “Golden Thread”
• Only the Wise and Ethical Bring Together the Best Talent
• Power and the IC Members
• Who’s Really in Charge Here?
• How Entrepreneurs Select Their IC Participants
• Who and What Behavior Make for a Healthy IC Member
• Lessons Learned by Addressing Common Problems
• Maintaining the Healthy IC
• More Stories about ICs
• Creating and Maintaining a Healthy IC Is a Leadership Challenge
• Selection of IC Members is Important, But Leadership Even More So
• CHAPTER 6 GENUINE DIALOGUE
• Genuine Dialogue Is Communication Without Filters
• Genuine Dialogue is De.nitely Special
• Experiencing the Experience
• We Are Born and Immediately Communicate Genuinely
• The Necessity of the Proper Environment
• What Might Our Bag of Experiences Contain?
• Back to Genuine Dialogue
• We Have Many Inner Circles
• The Difilty of Growing As One’s Own True Self
• “FY” Money
• What Are The Ingredients That Are Essential To Genuine Dialogue? Or, How Do We Make Chicken Soup?
• Genuine Dialogue Can Be Made to Happen
• Without Genuine Dialogue, Important Issues Are Not Addressed
• CHAPTER 7 EVENTS DICTATE THE EXERCISE OF POWER
• Why Events Should Dictate the Use of Power
• Leaders Need to Understand Their Power
• Being What Others Want Us to Be Need Not Keep Us from Becoming
• Similarities Between Quality Leaders Appear to be Much Greater Than Their Di.erences
• Leadership Programs Are Essential
• CHAPTER 8 THE ANATOMYOF A WORKSHOP
• Discovery That the Leader Is the Cause
• Further Reflections
• Establishing the Ground Rules for a Workshop
• The Mentor’s Role in the Workshop
• Who We Are As Perceived by Those Close To Us
• Preparing the Ground
• The Workshop
• B1, B2 and B3
• Problem-Solving Is More than Just the Problem
• The Impact of Genuine Dialogue
• Reaching Genuine Dialogue
• Safety at the Office Leads to a Desire for Safety at Home
• Tying It All Together
• EPILOGUE
• ABOUT THE AUTHOR
• GLOSSARY