Today's business environment demands managers with new interpersonal and leadership skills: an ability to get things done in the open, build real commitment to decisions, develop synergistic teams, openly discuss failures and successes, and learn from everyone's experience. Clear Leadership explores a fundamentally new way of thinking about people, human interaction, and the very nature of leadership to create a climate in which people are willing to speak and hear the truth.
Combating what the author calls interpeprsonal mush - a prevailing disorder that stifles learning, hampers collaborative teamwork, and closes down honest communication - Clear Leadership details the skills that make partnership and leadership in groups possible: self-awareness, descriptiveness, curiosity, and appreciation. Using true-to-life stories, practical exercises, and sample dialogues, Bushe identifies the barriers to truth telling and shows how to overcome them; explains exactly what clear leadership is, why it's important, and how it looks and sounds; and shows how to become more skilled at turning interpersonal clarity into action.
