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Leading a Business in Anxious Times Kindle Edition

by Katharine Baker (Author), Leslie Fox (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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Have you ever swum in the ocean where there is a strong undertow? You may not notice the powerful current until you find youself struggling to stay afloat. Organizational anxiety works the same way. Hidden from the surface, it can undermine your effectiveness during the challenging times that inevitably confront every organization. Leading a Business in Anxious Times looks at the workplace as an emotional system and introduces systems-based leadership, an approach to leading that is grounded in a well-tested theory of human behavior used for over fifty years by family therapists. The authors show that the same patterns of automatic behavior governing family relationship systems also affect business and have a profound impact on every business's success. This book invites individuals working at all levels of large and small businesses, nonprofits, and service organizations to embrace a new definition of leadership as a reciprocal relationship. Readers will learn how the ability to lead any type of business organization directly relates to the capacity of its leaders to manage their own anxiety in the relationship system - to think clearly and take thoughtful action in the presence of anxious colleagues in order to minimize the crippling effects of anxiety in the company - and how this ability is affected by one's position in one's family of origin as well as one's family history. Using the stories of several successful business leaders - as well as the stories of the authors themselves - to illustrate the concepts introduced in the book, Leading a Business in Anxious Times provides you with the tools you need to make yourself a stronger, more effective leader under stressful circumstances.
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Psychiatrist Murray Bowen's application of natural systems thinking to human behavior radically advanced our understanding of what undermines cohesion and cooperation in social groups. Fox and Baker so deftly explain and illustrate how systems ideas bring order to the sometimes tense and chaotic relationships in a workplace that it is a must-read for employees and employers alike. --Michael E. Kerr, MD, Director, Bowen Center for the Study of the Family

Baker and Fox connect long-held theories that have been central to the treatment of family systems and effectively connect those theories to larger organizational contexts. The authors have made the leap with a practical touch in mind so that managers and leaders at all levels might benefit from their words of wisdom. --Thomas J. DeLong, Philip J. Stomberg Professor of Management Practice, Harvard Business School

This book is an important addition to the growing literature on Bowen family systems theory and its many applications by two seasoned systems thinkers. Business leaders will recognize their own predicaments in its clear examples. As they apply what they learn here, they will see welcome changes--in themselves and in their organizations. --Roberta M. Gilbert, MD, Author of Extraordinary Leadership: Thinking Systems, Making a Difference

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Leslie Ann Fox is the co-founder and CEO of Care Communications, Inc. in Chicago. A pioneer of systems-based leadership, she has been teaching it to clients and employees since 1989. Katharine Gratwick Baker has a business consultation practice in western Massachusetts.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B004TMLN9M
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Care Communications Press (March 23, 2011)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 23, 2011
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 680 KB
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  1. Leslie Ann Fox

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    Leslie Ann Fox, MA, RHIA, FAHIMA, is a leader in the field of health information management. She is the co-founder and CEO of Care Communications, Inc., a consulting and staffing firm that has provided services to hundreds of hospitals throughout the United States since 1976. In addition to her prominent career in health information management, Leslie has been a pioneer in the teaching of systems-based leadership to clients and employees since 1989. Leslie is a registered health information administrator and a fellow of the American Health Information Management Association. She is on the faculty of the Center for Family Consultation in Evanston, Illinois, where she teaches in the postgraduate program on Bowen theory in organizations.

    Leslie has written a monthly column on leadership issues since 1999 for Advance for Health Information Professionals, an industry newsmagazine. Her work on the business applications of family systems theory has been published by the Georgetown Center for the Study of Family in a collection of papers entitled The Emotional Side of Organizations and was featured as the cover article in the January 2005 issue of the Journal of the American Health Information Management Association. She also contributed a chapter entitled "The Business of Triangles" to Triangles: A Bowen Family Systems Perspective (Haworth Press, 2008).

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    Katharine Gratwick Baker, MA, PhD, LICSW, is an experienced consultant who has worked with family enterprises and closely held firms, providing executive and leadership coaching, strategic planning and organizational learning services, and time management seminars. Katharine currently has a solo consultation practice based in western Massachusetts. She was senior consultant for the Metropolitan Group/Relative Solutions in New York from 1998 to 2006.

    Katharine has contributed chapters to a number of books and has authored and coauthored articles on a wide variety of topics, including "Family Business in the New Russia" for Families in Business Magazine, "Leadership, Legacy and Emotional Process in Family Business" in Family Business Review, and "Giving Harmoniously as a Family" in More Than Money Journal. She is featured as the subject of a Harvard Business School case study entitled "Carol Brewer's Investments."

    Katharine has received many years of postdoctoral training at the Bowen Center for the Study of the Family in Washington, D.C. She was a member of the Family Firm Institute for ten years and currently serves on a number of boards.

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  • Lynne Rychlec
    5.0 out of 5 stars Insightul and packed with practical wisdom
    Reviewed in the United States on March 25, 2013
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    All of us enjoy meeting someone who shares our perspective and values the same things we do. As the author of another book applying Bowen Systems Theory to the workplace, I felt I was listening to kindred spirits on nearly every page of Leading a Business in Anxious Times. Leslie Ann Fox and Katherine Gratwick Baker are experts in Bowen Theory, to be sure, but they have also figured out how to "translate" a fairly sophisticated theoretical framework into language that business people can grasp without feeling the need to become specialists in yet another discipline. Their experience "in the trenches" shows in every chapter: These are not academics; they are folks who know the world of business firsthand, and they have put together a volume about systems based leadership that is chock full of wisdom. The application of the theory is rock-solid, but what makes this book even more valuable is the way the authors have elected to deliver their insights through sharing examples and stories drawn from their own experience. Their content is made even easier to retain by the handy manner in which they provide summaries of their key points at the beginning of a chapter, and then proceed to flesh out those ideas in ways any business person can relate to. Illustrations, graphics and "questions for reflection" highlight important learning points at a number of places throughout the book. The literature applying Bowen Theory to the world of work is all too meager, and this is a welcome, rich addition to the field. You won't regret buying it yourself, and then encouraging colleagues to get a copy so they can help you unpack its implications for your own workplace.
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    2.0 out of 5 stars Kindle Edition is missing vital material.
    Reviewed in the United States on September 21, 2015
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    The book has excellent content however the kindle edition is missing all graphs and charts which are an essential part of the book.
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    3.0 out of 5 stars Missing charts, diagrams and tools
    Reviewed in the United States on May 19, 2015
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    This book is poor as a Kindle book. The table of contents is not activated and none of the charts, diagrams or tools are included. This is disappointing.
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  • Linda M. Fleming
    5.0 out of 5 stars very useful book
    Reviewed in the United States on December 10, 2009
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    I have just finished reading this book over the course of the past month and found it to be very thought-provoking and useful. I work in an academic setting, and even though the book focuses on business, I found the concepts to be easily applied to academia. The book outlines a theory of human systems that helps to understand how people interact in ways that are helpful and not-so-helpful. Theoretical information is illustrated with brief and more extended case examples to bring the material to real life. There are questions posed at the end of sections to help the reader apply the information to his/her own workplace. The questions are helpful if you take the time to carefully consider them. The book does not suggest easy or quick solutions to problems, but provides a foundation for thinking about problems in a different way that allows the reader to come up with his/her own solutions. I would recommend this book to anyone who works in any organization as an executive, administrator, employee, or volunteer.
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  • avid reader
    5.0 out of 5 stars Recomend this highly
    Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2016
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    Excellent text on the application of Bowen principles to the real world of business and leadership.
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  • Julie
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in the United States on November 19, 2014
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    Useful for leaders to "get up in a tree" and learn techniques for evaluating the climate
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  • Lenore Janecek
    5.0 out of 5 stars Leading a Business in Anxious Times
    Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2009
    Finally, a leadership book that looks at the human dynamic that exists in the workplace. After 25 years of training accomplished leaders, I now have the type of book I need for our future leadership programs. The authors bring a new vision of what a flexible, creative, and productive organizations can accomplish. It is an excellent book, in fact, I could not put down. I highly recommend it to all size businesses, nonprofits, and educational institutions!
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