HILARIE OWEN'S career began in the field of marketing with IBM and another blue chip company. She spent a year with the Government's Department of Trade and Industry launching The Enterprise Initiative. Broadening her career to management consultancy, she eventually took the plunge to set up her own consultancy at the beginning of 1991 working with organizations in the private and public sectors. Following the success of her book Creating Top Flight Teams, she has worked worldwide developing first class teams. Hilaries has spoken at conferences around the world, lectured at Cranfield Business School and advised the Department of Education and Employment.

"This is a book that I will certainly recommend to people who are looking for a general understanding of what leadership is about and how it is the ingredient in modern-day thinking." (People Management, 3rd May 200)"full of thought provoking sound advice." (Long Range Planning, No.34 2001)

• Preface. Acknowledgements. Introduction: Are We Ready for Unleashing Leaders? How We Develop Leaders Today: Are We Doing it Right? The Problems of Organizational Life Today: Transformation and Leadership are the Challenges for Everyone. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: What We are Seeing in Organizations Today is Not Leadership. The Time Traveller: The Lessons for Organizations from Ancient Times. Shaping Modern Organizations: Why Do We Build Hierarchical Structures Ruled by Managers? The Paradigm for Change: A Universal Framework for Leaders in the Twenty-First Century. Building a New Model for Organizations: To Unleash Leaders We Make the Old Model Obsolete. Unleashing Leaders: Transforming Individuals and Organizations Together. Conclusion: From Homo Sapiens to Homo Proteus (Shape Changer Being). References. Index.

HILARIE OWEN'S career began in the field of marketing with IBM and another blue chip company. She spent a year with the Government's Department of Trade and Industry launching The Enterprise Initiative. Broadening her career to management consultancy, she eventually took the plunge to set up her own consultancy at the beginning of 1991 working with organizations in the private and public sectors. Following the success of her book Creating Top Flight Teams, she has worked worldwide developing first class teams. Hilaries has spoken at conferences around the world, lectured at Cranfield Business School and advised the Department of Education and Employment.

"This is a book that I will certainly recommend to people who are looking for a general understanding of what leadership is about and how it is the ingredient in modern-day thinking." (People Management, 3rd May 200)"full of thought provoking sound advice." (Long Range Planning, No.34 2001)

• Preface. Acknowledgements. Introduction: Are We Ready for Unleashing Leaders? How We Develop Leaders Today: Are We Doing it Right? The Problems of Organizational Life Today: Transformation and Leadership are the Challenges for Everyone. The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: What We are Seeing in Organizations Today is Not Leadership. The Time Traveller: The Lessons for Organizations from Ancient Times. Shaping Modern Organizations: Why Do We Build Hierarchical Structures Ruled by Managers? The Paradigm for Change: A Universal Framework for Leaders in the Twenty-First Century. Building a New Model for Organizations: To Unleash Leaders We Make the Old Model Obsolete. Unleashing Leaders: Transforming Individuals and Organizations Together. Conclusion: From Homo Sapiens to Homo Proteus (Shape Changer Being). References. Index.