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书城英文图书The Spirit of Leadership

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第1章 PREFACE

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This book was written in 1989 and originally published by Abbott Publishing in 1990. It is amazing to me how much has happened to our world and our species since that time. But despite the almost cataclysmic changes that have occurred, I believe that the essential message of the book remains valid: we are in the midst of transformation, and leadership, along with everything else in our lives, has become or must become something quite different from what it has been.

Thanks to Steve Piersanti and all the good folks at Berrett-Koehler, this book is now available more broadly. I hope that you, as part of that broader audience, will enjoy reading it even as others apparently have enjoyed it before you. For myself, preparing the manuscript has been a remarkable experience in revisiting some old places and seeing them with new eyes.

HARRISON OWEN

Potomac, Maryland

January 1999

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