Table of Contents

1. Energising leadership: engaging human energy with intent 2. The energy story3. Connecting the energy story to leadership literature4. The energy cycle and the contributions of leaders 5. Real-time leadership: engaging energies face to face6. Influencing energies strategically: from a distance, around the clock7. Dilemmas of leadership: the energy traps8. Unconscious energies9. Orchestrating your own energies: being `at choice' with your default routines10. Your energies and the value you add11. Being and becoming a professional leader

About the Author

Nita Cherryis Professor of Leadership at Swinburne University of Technology, Adjunct Professor at Charles Sturt University and Fellow at the Swinburne Leadership Institute.

Reviews

this is a book that is helpful to ministers and their work. It is a fresh take on an often exhausted subject that provides genuine help for those engaged with the difficult task of leadership. * Andrew Groza, Journal of Contemporary Ministry *