Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-269) and index.

Leadership for a changing world : a call to adaptive work -- How do we begin? : differing expectations -- What is really going on here? : engaging people at the edge of learning -- Learning from failure in public : the power of small group consultation -- Listening to the music beneath the words : the practice of presence -- What endures? : the power of language, image, and metaphor -- Courage and costs : discovering how to teach the unteachable -- The same approach, other teachers : the question of transferability -- Toward a more adequate myth : the art of leadership -- Leadership can be learned : strengths and limitations of this approach.

"In Leadership Can Be Taught, Sharon Daloz Parks invites readers to step into the classroom of Harvard leadership virtuoso Ronald Heifetz and his colleagues to experience a dynamic type of leadership and a corresponding mode of learning called "case-in-point." This unique approach utilizes students' own experiences - and the classroom environment itself - as a "studio-laboratory" for working through the types of challenges people actually face in today's workplace. In this setting, failures become active experiments not just in learning, but in living leadership."--BOOK JACKET.

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