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Generative AI and the remote-work revolution show us every day that we're in a new era. The rules and norms have changed--and so must leadership. And yet, coercive bureaucracy, hierarchy, and control--old ways of thinking and working--are still with us, a deep-seated and powerful legacy. We are living through a profound transition from an old, industrial era to a new one that is digital, transparent, and complex. In Leading Through, the dynamic struggle between two competing paradigms of leadership is compellingly illustrated: an old paradigm that involves control and power over people versus a new one that enables and inspires power through people. With rich examples and stories, the authors show how deeply ingrained the legacy model of leadership remains and how destructive it is, causing waste and loss of human potential, stifling innovation, and ultimately resulting in what the authors call ""organizational darkness."" They go on to articulate a new, positive model, one that consciously seeks to do good and to make things better; that cares for people, helping them to thrive; and that mobilizes people to solve tough problems. These three elements, they argue, are the soul, heart, and mind of leadership, and activating them requires careful attention to both the personal and the organizational dimensions of leadership.

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Jonathan R. Clark is a professor of management at the University of Texas at San Antonio, where he has also served as department chair and associate dean. His work focuses on helping leaders create the conditions under which individuals, groups, and organizations do their best collective work. Erin E. Clark is a managing director with Deloitte Consulting, Human Capital, where she works with clients to improve their performance, drive change, and create sustainable advantage through people. Kim B. Clark served as dean of the faculty at Harvard Business School from 1995 to 2005. He also served as the fifteenth president of Brigham Young University-Idaho from 2005 to 2015 and commissioner of education for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 2015 to 2019. He is currently a distinguished professor of management at Brigham Young University. Petrea Burchard grew up in northern Illinois, where farm meets university, making her a townie with a love for animals, nature, and books. She started reading as soon as she figured out how and has been an actor since she could get anyone to pay attention. Petrea's stage experience covers everything from Second City comedy to Shakespeare, and her resume includes television, film, and voice-over work. Petrea earned a bachelor's degree in creative writing with a double minor in theater and French. Along with numerous articles and short stories she has published a time-slip novel, Camelot & Vine, and a book of comic essays, Act As If: Stumbling Through Hollywood with Headshot in Hand, about being a journeyman actor in Hollywood. When she's not narrating audiobooks in her Los Angeles home studio, Petrea loves to travel. But a hike in the mountains with her husband and their pit bull, Melly, is as good as a weekend in Paris.

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