Authentic Leadership Products
These authentic leadership products are from the work and writings of Dr. Robert Terry. Bob was the first internationally recognized thought leader to base his work on the concept of authentic leadership and to define authenticity in leadership.
You can find some copies of Authentic Leadership: Courage in Action at amazon.com though the original version is presently out of print. A new edition of this book will eventually be released by the AWL Group.
Praise and acclaim also comes from Carol A. Bonosaro, president of Senior Executives Association; Eric C. Jackson, president of Phoenix Packaging; Gary M. Cerny, president and COO of Reliant Energy Minnegasco; Mark Jenner, head of leadership development of Barclays Bank PLC; James V. Toscano, executive VP of Park Nicollet Institute; Barbara C. Crosby, senior fellow at Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs; Timothy N. Gibson, executive director of World Servants; Kevin S. Burke, Chief Judge of Hennepin County (MN) District Court; Margery L. Pabst, president of MLP Enterprises; Jack Fortin, executive director at Center for Lifelong Learning of Luther Seminary; and David Tiede, president of Luther Seminary.
Is our understanding and practice of leadership in dismal disarray or fertile ferment? As I criss-cross the country, advising and evaluating leadership programs, I come to a paradoxical conclusion - it is both. The calls for educational leadership programs, and for leadership itself, are incessant and growing in community after community. Sadly, programs are proliferating, it appears, inversely to a solid grasp of leadership itself. And, when the "experts" on leadership, either in person or by written word, are called in, the confusion deepens. Conflicting perspectives abound, remedies escalate, befuddlement and ad-hocracy takeover. Yet, while there is disarray in leadership studies, there is also ferment. I will identify and evaluate the primary perspectives in leadership that are demanding our attention and allegiance. If we can distinguish schools of thought, perhaps we can more thoughtfully set the direction for leadership in our communities [and businesses]. What follows will be a thumbnail sketch of six perspectives on leadership (my thanks to Catherine Perme for her permission to use sketches of the six perspectives) and a brief word about a seventh view. Each view has two subsets. Related Links:
"A fresh perspective on bringing people together in organizations to make something different happen. This author grapples courageously with the concept of courage and related notions about fear and violence, sacrifice and scapegoating, imitation and exposure.... He sees leadership as a remedy to we-they polarities; as an antidote to imitating, and thus, becoming, what we fear; and as the instrument, in John Gardner's recent words, of 'wholeness incorporating diversity.' The premise of this book, and its promise too, is that hard thinking occurs somewhere near the center of the human experience called leadership— and that for leaders, to propel ourselves 'beyond the comfort zone' is the beginning of wisdom. Bob Terry is well beyond the comfort zone in this revealing, often self-revealing, book. Leaders and readers— and especially those who are both— have reason to be grateful for this example of authenticity in action." ~ Harlan Cleveland
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shows how this shift in perspective carries enormous consequences for consideration of courage, vision, ethics, and spirituality as they relate to leadership. Bob Terry shows that the central organizing principle of leadership is authenticity and how authenticity and action joined together form a sure foundation for effective leadership. 
