Using clear and simple exercises adapted for leadership development from the world-renowned Meisner Technique, The Authentic Leader will help you discover first-hand what it means to build your authentic leadership skills in a clear, technical way.
This book presents a version of the Meisner technique that has been thoughtfully modified for the purposes of leadership training. It aims to train leaders to be fully authentic in their responses in the most efficient way and to let their responses be filtered by their abilities to deeply interpret and thrive within the psychological realities of the circumstances they are entering, be it their own or other people’s. The exercises in this book teach that effective leadership skills are about getting the attention off of oneself and allowing for a type of interpersonal determinism to bring out a leader’s truthful responses. This text breaks open the conversation on leadership and business skills in a whole new way using an established, although largely unknown method in the business world that will help leaders engage in the values of great leadership and train their own abilities to have presence, be dynamic, be magnetic, and know how to read any situation and thrive within it.
Whether you are green in your career or at the head of a nation, an aspiring leader or an educator looking to use this material, this work develops and nourishes powerful leadership in unconventional, effective, and dynamic ways.
Preface
Part 1 : The Heart of Leadership
Chapter 1 : Distilling the Wandering Mind
Chapter 2 : The Three Pillars of Leadership : Vision, Power, and Technique
Part 2 : Living Truthfully
Chapter 3 : Investing : the Beginnings of Everything
Chapter 4 : The River Between Two People
Chapter 5 : The I in You
Chapter 6 : Catching the Floating Moment
Chapter 7 : Moment by Moment
Chapter 8 : Chaos and (in) Leadership
Chapter 9 : Into the Great Unknown
Chapter 10 : The Knock at the Door
Part 3 : The Given Circumstances
Chapter 11 : Impossibility by Design
Chapter 12 : A Broken Back Shows the Way
Chapter 13 : Life Examined
Chapter 14 : New Ground : Additional Exercises for Living Truthfully Within a Given Set of Circumstances
Chapter 15 : Afterword : The Essential Hunger
Index
