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The Leader's Edge: Six Creative Competencies for Navigating Complex Challenges
By Chuck Palus and David Horth
(Center for Creative Leadership and Jossey Bass, May 2002)

From the Publisher:
The challenges faced by organizations today are increasingly complex, volatile, and multidimensional. To many, they seem insurmountable. And they may well be if only traditional leadership, management, and technical competencies are used to confront them. In this book, the authors make the case that most leaders do not use all of the competencies at their disposal. They set forth additional, neglected ways of leading, what they call creative leadership competences-paying attention, personalizing, imaging, serious play, co-inquiry, and crafting--and show what they mean and how to use them for increased effectiveness in confronting turbulence.

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Featured Organizations

The American Leadership Forum (ALF) is a nonprofit national organization founded by Joseph Jaworski in 1980 to offer a new leadership model for addressing the complex problems facing society. ALF was designed to achieve three fundamental goals:

• Heighten the sense of public responsibility of individual leaders;
• Act as a mechanism for cross-sectoral collaboration and cooperation within communities; and
• Enhance the leadership skills and capacity of individuals who are active in the civic life of their communities.

ALF's primary vehicle for leadership development is the delivery of its renowned fellowship program through its many local chapters. These intensive yearlong programs promote collaborative problem solving among diverse leaders from the public, private, and non-profit sectors.

In 2000, ALF expanded its network of collaborative leadership to a broader venue for exploration and study with The John Gardner Graduate Institute, an advanced studies program primarily for ALF Senior Fellows. ALF hopes to expand the program in future years.

Featured Events:

The Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA) will hold its annual conference from November 14-16, 2002, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The conference brings together researchers, scholars, and practitioners from around the world to present and discuss papers related to issues in nonprofit studies, voluntary action, and philanthropy.

This year's conference will focus on accountability and the public trust, and nonprofits and community. In addition, papers in the following areas will be presented: voluntarism; the nature of the third sector and its place in society; the management of nonprofit organizations; international and comparative studies of the third sector; and, the teaching of nonprofit studies. Papers will also address issues related to specific sub-sectors such as grassroots and community development, social services, religion, culture, civic benefit, recreation, education, and advocacy.