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Foreword: By Wendy Palmer, author of The Practice of Freedom: Aikido Principles as a Spiritual Guide and The Intuitive Body: Aikido as Clairsentient Practice.
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Prelude: Empty Your Cup
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Introduction: Eating the Same Thing Every Day:
The Five Core Problems Facing Leaders Today
Learn about these important concepts:
• Story: The Leader Who Wanted to Know Everything • Laying Blame or Finding Solutions? • The Five Core Problems Facing Leaders Today • New Times, New Rules • Strengths & Biases • Aikido • Leading Out of Flatland • Does the World Really Need Another Book on Leadership? • You Get Two Books in One
Chapter 1: Walking Through the Door: What Leaders Are Missing
Learn about these important concepts:
• Story: Understanding Harmony • Harmonious Emotional Engagement • Harmony–Mastering the Power • Emotions–Mastering the Balance • Engagement–Mastering the Connection • Putting It All Together • Commit to Starting Now • The Black Belt Cycleof Leading People • On Learning Experiments • Learning Experiment: Stretching Out,Warming Up • Chapter Summary Page
Chapter 2: Are You Pushing, Pulling, or Actually Leading?
Learn about these important concepts:
• Story: “You Can’t Move Me!” • Why Leaders Fail • Pulling People Does Not Work…
• …And Neither Does Pushing People • Beyond Pushing or Pulling: Black Belt Leadership • How Harmony in Leadership Creates Success • Spotlight: A Leadership Warrior • Conclusion • Learning Experiment: Are You Pushing or Pulling as a Leader?
• Chapter Summary Page
Chapter 3: The Four Cornerstones of Black Belt Leadership
Learn about these important concepts:
• Story: “My Teacher is the Best!” • The Four Cornerstones • Cornerstone #1: The Power of Embodied Leadership • Cornerstone #2: The Power of Both-And Thinking • Cornerstone #3: The Power of Process • Cornerstone #4: The Power of Succeeding Through Mistakes & Limitations • Ten Tips to Make the Cornerstones Work for You • Learning Experiment: Practicing the Four Cornerstones • Chapter Summary Page
Chapter 4: Embodied Leadership Technology
Learn about these important concepts:
• Story: Heavy Rocks • Great Leadership Starts with the Body • Mind & Body: Two Sides of the Same Coin • Embodied Leadership and the Rapture of Leadership • Embodied Leadership: The Stance of Black Belt Leadership • Embodied Leadership: The Three Disciplines • Discipline #1: Relaxing and Opening • Discipline #2: Grounding • Discipline #3: Centering • Embodied Learning Experiments • Embodied Learning Experiment #1: Emotions & Leaders’ Bodies • Chapter Summary Page
Chapter 5: Emotional Intelligence: Deep Knowledge for Leaders
Learn about these important concepts:
• Story: Eyes on the Sword • The Tomato Effect & Lost Revenues • Two Different Hats…But the Same Person • Emotions & the Bottom Line • Characteristics of Emotional Engagement • The Costs of Employee Disengagement • Developing Deep Knowledge for Leaders • Ten Ways to Cultivate Deep Knowledge • Embodied Learning Experiment #2: Building Deep Knowledge • Chapter Summary Page
Chapter 6: The Law of Successful Leadership
Learn about these important concepts:
• Story: Chop Wood, Carry Water, Keep Practicing • Emotional Worldviews • The Six Rules of Emotional Logic • Emotional Traditions • The Law of Successful Leadership • Five Tips for Following The Law of Successful Leadership • Upgrading Worldviews: The Power of Experience • Upgrading Worldviews for Leaders • Knowing When to Upgrade Your Worldview • Embodied Learning Experiment #3: Increasing Your Emotional Logic Performance • Chapter Summary Page
Chapter 7: Unlocking the Power of Process
Learn about these important concepts:
• Story: “Is That So?” • Three Keys That Unlock the Power of Process • Key #1: Realize Creativity Follows Technique • Key #2: Understand Creative Adjustments • Key #3: Use the Gestalt Cycle of Experience (GCOE) • Five Tips for Leading People with the Gestalt Cycle of Experience • Embodied Learning Experiment #4: Walking Through the Gestalt Cycle of Experience • Chapter Summary Page
Chapter 8: Leading Through Change
Learn about these important concepts:
• Story: Hand Closed, Hand Open • The Four Rules of Change for Leaders • Peoples’ Responses to Change • Where Change Begins • The Paradox of Change • Reasons Why Change Fails • Remember: Focus on Balance Rather than Blame • Embodied Learning Experiment #5: Changing Your Views on Change • Chapter Summary Page
Only $2.95!Chapter 9: Two Key Qualities Required to Lead People
Learn about these important concepts:
• Story: Heaven & Hell • Two Key Qualities: Balance & Flexibility • A Problem to Solve or a Polarity to Explore? • Yin and Yang • Don’t Lead Like Daedalus! • Unbalanced Polarities: A Common Leadership Problem • Ten Tips for Incorporating Polarities Into Your Leadership Style • Embodied Learning Experiment #6:Practicing Polarities • Chapter Summary Page
Only $2.95!Chapter 10: Leading with Harmony
Learn about these important concepts:
• Story: Teacups & Martial Arts • What’s More Important? • Leadership Styles: Resonant & Dissonant • Harmony & Resonance • Dissonance Personified—Four Coaches for Ebenezer • Scrooge & the Gestalt Cycle of Experience • Final Words on Scrooge • Seven Leadership Lessons for Leading with Harmony • Conclusion • Embodied Learning Experiment #7: Embodying Harmony • Chapter Summary Page
Chapter 11: The Secret to Doubling Your Leadership Power
Learn about these important concepts:
• Story: Who Do We Hire? • Double Your Leadership Power • Yin Power—Strength in Yielding • Yin Power & Negative Capacity • Four Tips to Help Leaders Increase Their Yin Power • Embodied Experiment #8: Embodying Yin Power • Chapter Summary Page
Chapter 12: Leading Through Conflict
Learn about these important concepts:
• Story: Crossing the River • The Four Conflict Management Tools of Black Belt Leaders • Five Skills for Even Better Conflict Management • Embodied Learning Experiment #9: Breathing Through Conflict • Chapter Summary Page
Chap 13: Climbing the Mountain
Learn about these important concepts:
• Story: Many Ways to Right • Many Ways to Right • Leaders Need To Be Right, Right? • No Simple Solutions to Climbing the Mountain • Into the Dark Forest • Skills for Continuing Your Journey • Taking Your Space: Playing Big • Don’t Just Sit There – Do Something! • Be Prepared • If You Meet a Leadership Program, Kill It! • Finally…Paying Attention to ‘We' • Good Luck!