How Great Leaders Think The Art of Reframing
Lee G. Bolman, University of Missouri-Kansas City and Terrence E. Deal, University of
Southern California, San Luis Obispo, CALIFORNIA
WHY TO BUY
Bestselling authors Lee Bolman and Deal adapt their
time-proven four-frame model from Reframing Organizations into a
short, thought-provoking guide to help leaders decode the messy
world in which they live, see a broader range of leadership options,
and find more powerful and elegant strategies for leading.
INFORMATION
Author biography
Lee G. Bolman holds the Marion Bloch/Missouri Chair in Leadership at the Bloch School of
ISBN13: 978-1-118-14098-7
ISBN10: 1-118-14098-2
Business and Public Administration at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He consults
worldwide to corporations, public agencies, universities and schools. He lives in Kansas City, In Store Date: August 4, 2014
Cons. Rel. Date: July 28, 2014
MO.
Terrence E. Deal retired as the Irving R. Melbo Clinical Professor of the University of Southern Publication Date: August 18, 2014
Price: US$ 30.00
California's Rossier School of Education. He now writes and makes wine in San Luis Obispo,
CAN$ 36.00
California. He is the coauthor of sixteen books, including the best-selling Corporate Cultures
Pages: 256
with A.A. Kennedy and Managing the Hidden Organization (1994, with W.A. Jenkins). He lives
in San Luis Obispo, CA.
Bolman and Deal are co-authors of the bestselling book Reframing Organizations, now in its 4th edition.
Sales handles
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EXECUTIVE EDITION OF BESTSELLING TEXT: This book provides Bolman & Deal's four-frame model in a shorter, less
academically-oriented book aimed at professional leaders/managers.
PRACTICAL GUIDE FOR LEADERS: This book shows leaders how to use the 4 frames to understand complexity and
turbulence, drawing on current examples such as Roger Smith's struggles as CEO of General Motors, the collapse of Enron, Bob
Nardelli's fall from rise and fall as CEO at Home Depot, and the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks.
SUPPLEMENTAL TEXT USE: This book provides a compact overview of 4-frames model that can be used as a
supplement--rather than a main text--in leadership, management, and organizational behavior or organization theory courses. It
-fills a different niche than Reframing Organizations since it won't provide theoretical depth or cover relevant academic literature
that are central features of Reframing.
About the topic/technology
Bolman and Deal's four-frame model was originally developed in the mid-1970s, and has been evolving since. It is rooted in many
decades of social science research across multiple disciplines, including management, organizational theory, organizational behavior,
public administration, educational administration, psychology, sociology, anthropology, and political science. It has found a broad,
receptive audience because it provides an accessible, compact, and powerful set of ideas for negotiating complexity and turbulence -exactly the conditions that leaders face in contemporary organizations.
Market description
(Please include secondary markets)
Leaders and managers at middle and senior levels of private, public and non-profit organizations; supplementary text for professors and
students in executive education courses and graduate courses in leadership, management, organizational behavior and organizational
theory courses.
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How Great Leaders Think The Art of Reframing
Lee G. Bolman and Terrence E. Deal
About the book
Reframing Leadership translates Bolman & Deal's influential four-frame model of leadership and organizations developed in
their bestselling Jossey-Bass Book, Reframing Organizations: Artistry, Choice and Leadership, (over 300,000 copies sold in 4
editions, $7M in net revenue) into a thought-provoking and practical guide for leaders in business and other organizations. This book
will offer leaders a template and guide for understanding four major dimensions of organizational life: structure, people, politics, and
symbols (or culture) that will enable them to decode the messy world in which they live, see a broader range of options, and find more
powerful and elegant strategies for leading.
Previous works by author/editor (Title; Author; ISBN; Price; Pub Date; Net Sales; Publisher; Comments)
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Leading with Soul, New and Revised (J-B, 2001) $24.95 cl ISBN: 0787955477. Sold 65,041 to date. 1st edition (J-B, 1995) $20 cl
ISBN: 1555427073. Sold 92,558 total. Total copies sold in 2 editions: 157,599 (Leading with Soul 3E forthcoming in July 2011)
The Wizard and the Warrior: Leading with Passion and Power (J-B, 2006) $29.95 cl ISBN: 0787974137. Sold 14,625 to date.
Reframing Organizations 4E (J-B, 2008) $47 pa ISBN: 0787987999. Sold 61557 to date $55 cl ISBN: 0787987980 Sold 3,400 to
date. 3rd edition (J-B, 2003) $48 pa ISBN: 0787964271. Sold 115,366 to date $50 cl ISBN: 0787964263. Sold 4,939 to date. Total
copies sold in 3rd and 4th editions: 185,262
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