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Bolman, L. G., and Deal, T. E. Reframing Organizations: Artistry, Choice and Leadership, 7th ed., 2021. The four frames remain the heart of the book, and the chapter structure is almost unchanged from the 6th edition, but we’ve edited and added new cases and research with particular emphasis on the extraordinary events of 2020. The new edition captures the state of knowledge and practice in organizations and leadership as we enter the third decade of the 21st century. The frames help to understand, for example, how the Covid-19 virus escaped from Wuhan, China (extraordinary consequences resulting from completely ordinary management and leadership failures) and what happened in the 2020 U.S. presidential election (one battle in a political and cultural war that will continue into the future). Find on Amazon.
Gallos, J. V. and Bolman, L. G. Reframing Academic Leadership, 2d ed. The new 2d edition is the go-to guide for deepening leadership commitment, capacity, and impact. Gallos and Bolman tease out the unique opportunities and challenges in academic leadership and present powerful ideas and tools to assist college and university administrators in seeing new possibilities and moving their institutions forward. Threads of both continuity and change are woven throughout higher education’s history. They continue as we enter the third decade of the 21st century, magnified by the extraordinary turning point of Covid-19. Both are central themes in this second edition of Reframing Academic Leadership. So is belief in the vital role of academic leadership for bringing fresh thinking to perennial concerns like access, affordability, and quality. Find on Amazon, Barnes & Noble.
Bolman, L. G., and Deal, T. E. Reframing the Path to School Leadership: a Guide for Principals and Teachers, 3d ed.. (2018, Corwin). (Find on Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble or bookshop.org. This book is aimed particularly at principals and teachers who want to become better leaders. Through a series of dialogues between a novice and a master teacher, and between a new and a veteran principal, we try to show how reframing the challenges of everyday life in schools brings greater clarity, helps to anticipate problems, and leads to more powerful leadership strategies.
Bolman, L. G., and Gallos, J. V. Engagement: Transforming Difficult Relationships at Work. (Wiley, 2016). If you’ve struggled to find more productive ways to deal with an impossible boss, infuriating coworker, puzzling subordinate, or all of the above, you’re not alone. Co-author Joan Gallos and I know these challenges from our own experience, from the experience of our colleagues, clients and students, and from the extensive literature on the subject. Our new book offers help. It uses a model built around the acronym SURE to develop four rules of engagement to guide the search for better ways to solve tough people problems. The book is available in print and digital formats at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and bookshop.org.
Bolman, L. G., and Deal, T. E. How Great Leaders Think: The Art of Reframing. (San Francisco, Jossey-Bass, 2014). How Great Leaders Think: the Art of Reframing, is out and available in print, digital and audio book formats at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and bookshop.org. It has a simple message:
- Good thinking is the starting point for good leadership.
- Leaders who can reframe—look at the same thing from multiple perspectives—think better. They create a lucid portrait of what’s going on around them and have a clearer vision of what’s needed to achieve desired results.
- Leaders can see and do more when they know how to negotiate four key areas of the leadership terrain: structural, human resource, political, and symbolic.
Bolman, L. G., and Deal, T. E. Leading with Soul: an Uncommon Journey of Spirit, 3rd edition (San Francisco, Jossey-Bass, 2011). (Available in print and digital editions on Amazon, Barnes & Noble and bookshop.org.) This is the latest revision of our 1995 book. We still tell the story of embattled executive Steve Camden, but we’ve made extensions and revisions throughout to deepen the book’s hopeful spiritual message about leadership. We have added new material on the responsibilities of business to its environment, described exciting new applications of the ideas in Leading with Soul, and responded to queries from readers. Click here for foreign-language versions of Leading with Soul.
Bolman, L. G. and Deal, T. E. The Wizard and the Warrior: Leading with Passion and Power. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2006. (Find on Amazon, Barnes & Noble,or bookshop.org. The Wizard and the Warrior gives leaders the insight and courage they need to take risks on behalf of values they cherish and the people they guide. Great leaders must act both as wizard, calling on imagination, creativity, meaning, and magic, and as warrior, mobilizing strength, courage, and willingness to fight as necessary to fulfill their mission. Best-selling authors Lee Bolman and Terrence Deal present the defining moments and experiences of exemplary leaders such as Thomas Keller (head chef of French Laundry), David Neeleman (CEO of Jet Blue), Mary Kay Ash, Warren Buffet, Anne Mulcahy, Joan of Arc, and Abraham Lincoln. All have wrested with their own inner warrior and wizard. Engaging, realistic case studies raise questions and suggest possibilities without rushing to simple answers.
Bolman, L. G., and Deal, T. E. Reframing Organizations: Artistry, Choice and Leadership, 6th ed. Rooted in decades of social science research across multiple disciplines, Bolman and Deal’s four-frame model has continued to evolve since its conception over 25 years ago; this new sixth edition has been updated to include coverage of cross-sector collaboration, generational differences, virtual environments, globalization, sustainability, and communication across cultures. The Instructor’s guide has been expanded to provide additional tools for the classroom, including chapter summary tip sheets, mini-assessments, Bolman & Deal podcasts, and more. These recent revisions reflect the intersection of reader recommendations and the current leadership environment, resulting in a renewed practicality and even greater alignment with everyday application. Click for 6th edition instructors’ site