Leadership Beyond Good Intentions

Book excerpt: An experienced leader and trainer explains how managers and leaders can find compassionate ways of facilitating change in their organizationsDrawing on deep experience of developing leaders from a wide range of public sector, private sector, community, and non-government organizations; as well as on Buddhist principles; Geoff Aigner identifies the inner tensions and work involved in making change. Offering an alternative to typical hardline approaches to leadership, he challenges common assumptions leaders make about themselves and their motivations, and offers strategies to develop fresh, eff.