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Leadership Is Half the Story

A Fresh Look at Followership, Leadership, and Collaboration
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Leadership Is Half the Story challenges traditional views by highlighting the often overlooked role of followership in organisational success. Samantha and Marc Hurwitz present a pioneering model that integrates leadership, followership, and partnerships, emphasising the dynamic interplay between these roles. Drawing on research and field experience, they offer practical advice for everyone in an organisation, from CEOs to front-line managers, encouraging a more collaborative and innovative workplace.
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Can you imagine a choreographer only training one dancer to lead while his or her partner sits in the lobby staring at the wall? Yet we do this all the time in organizations. Half the partnership is missing.

"Marc and Samantha Hurwitz are making the next important development in leadership and followership studies - weaving the behaviors of the leader and follower roles into a collaborative relationship that drives effective teams and organizations. This integrative approach will be of great interest to performance at both ends of the leader-follower dynamic." -- Ira Chaleff, author, 'The Courageous Follower' "This book is wise and entertaining. It blends research, theory, and fascinating stories from practice that can help us all to become better leaders - and followers. It is a book to read, and then read again." -- Dennis Tourish, Professor of Leadership and Organisation Studies, Royal Holloway, University of London; author, 'The Dark Side of Transformational Leadership' "What a gift! This book fills a void that needed filling in the discussion about leadership. And it is done with solid research and practical application." -- Barry Johnson, author, 'Polarity Management' "'Leadership Is Half the Story' is a breath of fresh air. In this very readable book, Samantha and Marc Hurwitz introduce dozens of innovative and useful insights about the dynamics of effective leadership and followership. But it delivers much more than just theory. It offers practical tips, exercises, and methods for implementing more productive, more creative, and more rewarding collaboration skills. I've read hundreds of business books. Most are rehashes. This is a game-changer." -- Tim Hurson, author of the global bestseller 'Think Better 'and co-author 'Never Be Closing'

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Can you imagine a choreographer only training one dancer to lead while his or her partner sits in the lobby staring at the wall? Yet we do this all the time in organisations. Half the partnership is missing.

Leadership is Half the Story introduces the first model to seamlessly integrate leadership, followership, and partnerships. This research-backed, field-tested book contributes many new ideas and practical advice for everyone in an organisationβ€”from CEO to HR director to front-line manager to consultant.

All of us lead, not just those with the formal title. All of us follow, not just front-line staff. In great collaborations, one moment we are leading and then we flip to following; in other words, the relationship between leadership and followership is dynamic, context-specific, and ever-evolving. This empowering perspective opens up leadership to everyone, normalises followership, and enables more productive and innovative collaborations. Candid discussions about both roles allow for better coaching, mentoring, skill development, and interpersonal agility, and result in stronger teams.

Marc and Samantha Hurwitz give us a category-busting book that "practically glows with energy and vision," according to Marshall Goldsmith, executive coach and best-selling author of What Got You Here Won't Get You There.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781487522469

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 28 July 2017

Country: Canada

Imprint: University of Toronto Press

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 28.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 440g

Pages: 296

About the Author

Marc Hurwitz is co-founder and Chief Insight Officer of FliPskills and a lecturer at the Conrad Centre for Business, Entrepreneurship and Technology at the University of Waterloo. He holds a PhD in cognitive neuroscience, an MBA, and has many years of corporate, executive, and entrepreneurial experience.

Samantha Hurwitz is co-founder and Chief Encouragement Officer of FliPskills. She is a coach, consultant and facilitator with twenty-five years of corporate and entrepreneurial experience, including nine at the executive level.

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