Leadership is an art /
Max DePree
- New York : Dell Publishing Co., Inc., c1990
- xxiv, 148 pages ; 22 cm
Introduction -- The Milwright died -- What is leadership? -- Participative premises -- Theory fastball -- Roving leadership -- Intimacy -- Whiter capitalism? -- Giant tales -- Tribal storytelling -- Who owns this place? -- Communicate! -- Pink ice in the urinal -- What's next?
The author looks at leadership as a kind of stewardship, stressing the importance of building relationships, initiating ideas, and creating a lasting value system within an organization. Rather than focusing on the "hows" of corporate life, he explains the "whys."