Living with Leadership

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Living with Leadership is a book written by Saeed Rashid on Leadership at Research and Development Cell, Military College Jhelum. He wrote the puropse of this book as, 'Reconstuction of the Society Though Value-Centered Leadership'. He dedicated this book to Quaid-e-Azam.

[edit] Contents

PART ONE

Values and Attitudes

  1. Ripeness is All -- In Search of Maturity
  2. Ambitions Vs Ideals
  3. Four Patterns of Character
  4. Doing Good Unilaterally
  5. Impressive v inspiring
  6. Two Types of Respect
  7. Secret of Sincerity
  8. The Lure of Loyalty
  9. Integrity--Moral and Psychological
  10. Three Kinds of Obedience
  11. The Psychology of Personal Example
  12. Expansiveness v Acquisitiveness
  13. Satisfactory v Satisfying
  14. Credibility Gap I
  15. Justice v Generosity
  16. Vertical v Horizontal Career-Movement
  17. Tragic Trends v Heroic Traits
  18. Just a Slip or the Last Straw?
  19. Only a Fluke or the Fruit of Life Long labour?
  20. Credibility Gap II
  21. Justice before Kindness
  22. Leadership in Crisis
  23. Fear of Responsibility
  24. Dimensions of Discipline--Power, pleasure and Security
  25. Beyond the Domain of Self-Discipline
  26. The Legend of Super-Leaders
  27. Habits v Principles
  28. Rationalizing the Irrational
  29. The Concept of Emotional Health
  30. Sense of Proportion
  31. Perfect to a Fault
PART TWO

Inter-Personal Relationship

  1. Limits and Limitations
  2. Of Great Expectations
  3. Personality Pattern of Superiors
  4. Varieties of Subordinates
  5. Dealing with the Difficult Ones
  6. Communication Gap
  7. Once’ is not always ‘Always’
  8. Absorbing the Shocks
  9. Career Rivalries
  10. The Anatomy of Criticism and Cribbing
  11. Who is at the controls, please-- the Parent the Adult or the Child?
  12. Tackling the Criticism
  13. The Role that Better-half Plays
  14. In Defense of Shyness
  15. Explosion of Expectations
PART THREE

Views and Visions

  1. Elements of Leadership—Aristotle’s view
  2. Iqbal’s Vision of Leadership
  3. Leadership – Plato’s view
  4. Five Personality Patterns of a Leader—Plato’s View
APPENDICES
  • a) Self Image
  • b) Self image (Poem)
  • c) The Sixteen Personality Factors
  • d) Convergent Vs Divergent Thinking
  • e) Divergent Thinking
  • f) Trust
  • g) Poems - Walk Alone, Today