An experienced leader and trainer explains how managers andleaders can find compassionate ways of facilitating change in their organizations
Drawing on deep experience of developing leaders from a wide range of public sector, private sector, community, and non-government organizations; as well as on Buddhist principles; Geoff Aigner identifies the inner tensions and work involved in making change.Offering an alternative to typical hardline approaches to leadership, he challenges common assumptionsleadersmake about themselves andtheir motivations, and offers strategies to develop fresh, effective, and truly compassionate ways of pursuing change. He explains that for leaders, good intentionsare not enoughwhen despite your best efforts you run into obstacles and resistance, the temptation is to see the challenges as lying outside ourselves, to grasp at a model or a tool, or tofind other people slow to get the point. Aignerreveals here that the real challenge we face is often ourselves."