On Mission and Leadership

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).

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