Shifting Context

Does leadership really spring from within?

True stories of sheroes and heroes from around the world demonstrate how leadership from within brings about real social change. If you are passionate about creating social impact read the stories, reflect on the questions, and act.

This book makes the invisible visible by looking behind the actions of leaders to expose the principles that made them successful. These are leadership principles for the 21st century.

Barbara and Linda spent decades working with leaders in industry, academia, and civil society guiding them to live up to their full leadership potential. Through that process, these activists created extraordinary results by letting leadership spring from within. Find out for yourself what is possible when you learn to shift context.

CONTENTS

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Preface

Introduction: Standing in a Stream

1. Whole Woman, Whole Leader, Whole World

Part One: Care About

2. I Am Who I Am

3. This Is What I Am Supposed to Be Doing

4. Passion and Love for Others

Part Two: Vision and Commitment

5. One Million More Babies to Loving Homes

6. One Computer for the Library

7. A Disruptive Transformational Vision

8. I Will Not Grow Old Without Making a Difference

Part Three: Listening and Questioning

9. Listening with an Empty Head

10. Tears of Joy

11. Pausing Creates Innovation

Part Four: Embodying Leadership

12. Giving My Own Dream Priority

13. Million People Part of the Economy

14. She Can Speak from Her Heart

15. They Lose the Frightened Look in Their Eyes

Part Five: Empowering Interpretations

16. It Is Not Charity

17. Could You Make That YOUR Own Initiative?

18. Haunted by Their Stories

19. The Girls Will Hate Me

Part Six: Building and Becoming

20. I Am Not a One-Well Man

21. The Pencil Is in Your Hands

22. Let's Plant Trees Whose Shade We May Never Sit In

23. A Seat at the Table

Conclusion: The Never-Ending Journey to Becoming

Appendix: Leadership Sheroes and Heroes

References

Endnotes

About the Authors