On Mission and Leadership: A Leader to Leader Guide
Edited by Frances Hesselbein and Rob Johnston





Format: Paperback, 120pp.
ISBN: 9780470631034
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Pub. Date: February 2002 • First Edition

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Description and Reviews
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On Mission and Leadership explores the vital role of mission in defining and sustaining leadership. Part of the Leader to Leader Guides, which offer a wellspring of rich insight and information from top leadership thinkers, it presents the best thinking on inspired leadership, vision, and mission-focused management

Drawn from Leader to Leader, the award-winning journal, On Mission and Leadership brings together Warren Bennis, Anita Roddick, Daniel Goleman, Patrick Lencioni, Dee Hock and other thought leaders to offer guidance and insight for those who seek to lead their organizations with a strong sense of purpose. The contributors reveal how an effective organization is built around an enterprise's fundamental mission-its reason for being. They show how successful leaders mobilize around and communicate mission at all times, and they demonstrate how these leaders embody the values and character the organization needs to succeed. Readers will learn how to build community within their organizations and how to define the organization's role in the greater community beyond the walls.

Each of the four volumes in the Leader to Leader Guides— On Mission and Leadership, On Leading Change, On High-Performance Organizations, and On Creativity, Innovation, and Renewal— is organized around an essential topic with a diversity of views presented in clear, short chapters. These essential collections provide leaders with opportunities to take their organizations to new levels of excellence.

Learn about Mission and Leadership from these Thought Leaders

Christopher Bartlett
Warren Bennis
Daniel Goleman
Frances Hesselbein
Dee Hock
Robert Knowling
David M. Lawrence
Patrick Lencioni
Henry Mintzberg
C. William Pollard
Anita Roddick
Norm Smallwood
Dave Ulrich
Jack Zenger


About the Editors

Frances Hesselbein is chairman of the board of governors of the Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management and editor-in-chief of its journal Leader to Leader. She is also the lead editor for the best-selling Drucker Foundation Future Series. Hesselbein served as CEO of the Girl Scouts of the U.S.A. from 1976 to 1990 and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States' highest civilian honor, in 1998.

Rob Johnston is president and CEO of the Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management. He was executive producer for Leading in a Time of Change, a 2001 video featuring Peter F. Drucker and Peter M. Senge and for the Nonprofit Leader of the Future video teleconference. He is a senior editor for the Leader to Leader journal, and has contributed a chapter to Enterprising Nonprofits (Wiley, 2001).


Table of Contents

1	Speaking a Common Language by Frances Hesselbein
2	The Leadership Advantage by Warren Bennis
3	Leader as Social Advocate: Building the Business by Building Community by interview with Anita Roddick
4	The Emotional Intelligence of Leaders by Daniel Goleman
5	The Trouble with Humility by Patrick Lencioni
6	Mission as an Organizing Principle, by C. William Pollard
7	The Art of Chaordic Leadership, by Dee Hock
8	Managing Quietly by Henry Mintzberg
9	Maintaining a Mission: Lessons from the Marketplace by David M. Lawrence, M.D.
10	Closing the Strategic Generation Gap a conversation with Christopher Bartlett
11	Building Your Leadership Brand by Dave Ulrich, Norm Smallwood, and Jack Zenger
12	Why Vision Matters by Robert Knowling

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