The Leadership Dojo: Build Your Foundation as an Exemplary Leader [Hardcover]

History is filled with accounts of great leaders, but how did they become so? Written for emergent leaders in any endeavor, this new work from renowned consultant Richard Strozzi-Heckler offers a new approach to leadership. The first book of its kind to base business and management strength on integral body awareness, the book presents key principles such asshugyo,or self-cultivation, as crucial in developing the individual responsibility, social commitment, and moral and spiritual vision required to lead with authority and efficacy.The Leadership Dojois based on three questions: What does a leader do? What are the character values most essential to exemplary leadership? How do you teach these values? Drawing on the wisdom of ages from Plato to the Bhagavad-Gita, from Thucydides to the Abidharma, the book asserts that understanding and answering these questions holds the key to superior leadership skills. Strozzi-Heckler teaches with real-world examples based on his wide experience training decision-makers at companies like AT&T and Microsoft. The book’s multifaceted approach helps readers establish a powerful Leadership Presence, a platform from which they can take ethical action with compassion and pragmatic wisdom.Introduction

Chapter One: We Are All Leaders

Chapter Two: Cultivation of the Self

Chapter Three: Dojo, The Place of Awakening

Learning for Action
Practice
Fellow Learners
Teacher or Coach

Chapter Four: You Are What You Practice

Chapter Five: The Body of a Leader

Chapter Six: Leadership Presence

Center
Facing
Extending
Entering
Blending

Chapter Seven: The Marine Warrior Project: An Proven Example of the Leadership Dojo

Endnotes Strozzi-Heckler, a martial arts expert, former marine, and executive coach for AT&T and Microsoft, provides a decidedly mystical primer on leadership. Effective managers, he says, must cultivate their innerló: