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Tables of Contents for The Passionate Organization
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
xiii
Introduction: Heart Over Head
xv
Part I: Passion Over Knowledge
1
66
Defining Passion
3
14
The Nature of Positive Passion
4
2
The Power of Passion
6
2
The Passionate Organization
8
2
What Passion Is Not
10
1
Negative Passion
11
2
The Absence of Passion
13
1
Conclusion
13
4
The Limitations of Reason
17
13
The Role of Presuppositions
18
2
The Speculative Nature of Inductive Thinking
20
1
The Narrowness of Education and Experience
21
2
The Non-Self-Evident Nature of Truth
23
2
The Paradoxical Nature of Reality
25
1
The Inability of Reason to Correct Its Own Errors
25
2
Reason's Inability to Be Foolproof
27
1
The Unreasonableness of the Hard Thing
27
1
Is It Hard or Is It Soft?
28
1
Conclusion
29
1
The Misleading Comfort of Strategic Planning
30
12
What Is Strategic Planning?
32
1
Strategic Planning As the Impossible Dream
33
2
Strategy As Organizational Process Rather Than Planning Process
35
1
Strategic Vision and Strategic Thinking
36
3
A Different Kind of Planning
39
1
Conclusion
40
2
The Siren Song of the Learning Organization
42
14
What Is Learning?
42
1
The Components of Learning
43
1
Why Should We Learn?
44
2
Why Don't We Learn?
46
1
How Will We As Individuals Learn?
47
2
The True Learning Organization
49
1
The Teaching Organization
50
1
Threats to the Passionate Organization's Ability to Learn
51
2
Protecting the Passionate Organization's Ability to Learn
53
1
Conclusion
54
2
The Uncontrollable Nature of Fire
56
11
Bound by the Chain of Command
58
1
Tools of the Chain of Command
59
1
When True Merit and Freedom Come to Organizations
60
1
But Passion Is So ... Unplanned
61
1
The Nonrational Labors of Imagination
62
1
The Death of Determinism
63
1
Passion Capital
64
2
Passion Direction
66
1
Conclusion
66
1
Part II: A Passionate People
67
64
Clues to the Presence of Passion
69
16
Willingness to Confront Reality
70
3
Ability to Discern the Truth About Who We Are and What We Want and Need
73
1
Capacity to Transform Information and Knowledge Into Wisdom
74
1
Alignment Between Personal and Organizational Aspirations
75
1
Desire to Make a Difference
76
1
Love for Labor
77
1
Indignation Over Conditions
78
1
Evidence of Battle Scars
79
1
An Amateur's Orientation
80
1
Being Young at Heart
81
3
Conclusion
84
1
The Role of the Soul
85
11
Soul and Spirituality
85
1
What Does This Stuff Mean to My Organization?
86
1
The Reality of Spirituality
86
1
The Red Herring of Religion
87
1
Tapping Into the Spiritual Core
88
3
Things to Avoid
91
2
Spiritual Intelligence
93
1
Conclusion
94
2
Commitment to a Greater Goal
96
10
Internal Marketing
97
2
Internal Alignment
99
1
A Case Study in Alignment
100
2
Elements of a Heroic Effort
102
1
External Alignment
103
1
Conclusion
104
2
The Need to Make a Difference
106
12
The Need to Leave a Legacy
107
1
The Seven Steps of a Decent Organizational Legacy
108
4
Legacy for All by Organizational Design
112
3
Commitment
115
2
Conclusion
117
1
Balanced People With Multiple Passions
118
13
The Balanced Polymaniac
121
3
Balance Between People
124
1
Balance Between Work and the Rest of Life
125
2
Balance Between Work and Rest
127
1
Opening the Floodgates of Whole-Life Passion
128
1
Conclusion
129
2
Part III: The Passionate Organization
131
93
Pick and Prepare Passionate People
133
11
The Passion Match
134
1
How Do We Hire for Passion?
135
2
Build a Farm Team
137
2
Let Them Learn by Passion
139
1
Learning by Teaching
140
1
Evaluating Passion
141
1
Conclusion
142
2
Encase Passion in Vision and Mutual Trust
144
16
The Problem
145
1
Encasing Passion
145
1
Vision
145
8
Mutual Trust
153
2
The Future of Organizational Design
155
3
Conclusion
158
2
Building Passion for Stakeholders
160
11
A Passion for Customers
161
4
A Passion for Shareholders
165
2
A Passion for Helpers
167
1
A Passion for the Food Chain
168
1
Evaluate Passion for Stakeholders
169
1
Conclusion
170
1
Stoke the Fire of Waning Passion
171
11
Avoid the Myth of Motivation
172
2
Stoking the Fire
174
3
Obstacles to Passion
177
3
Conclusion
180
2
Deal With Negative and Missing Passion
182
9
The Shadow
182
2
The Petty
184
1
The Indignant
185
3
The True Believer
188
2
Can Positive Passion Ever Be Wrong?
190
1
Conclusion
190
1
Kill the Concept of ``Management''
191
10
The Illusion of Management
193
1
The Problems of Management
194
2
Killing the Concept of Management
196
3
The Advantages of Leadership for the Passionate Organization
199
1
Conclusion
200
1
Know It's Better to Stub Your Toe Than to Lose Your Leg
201
9
Creativity at the Core
202
2
Mavericks Matter
204
2
Safety for Risk Takers
206
2
Conclusion
208
2
Use Crises and Obstacles to Increase Passion
210
8
What Crises and Obstacles Reveal
212
1
Understanding Responses to Change
213
2
Using Crises and Obstacles to Increase Passion
215
1
Conclusion
216
2
Spiritual Leadership in Secular Places
218
6
Seven Pillars of Spiritual Leadership in Secular Places
219
3
What Spiritual Leaders Don't Do
222
1
Conclusion
223
1
Epilogue: The Triumph of the Passionate Organization
224
2
Bibliography
226
3
Index
229
7
Other Reading by James R. Lucas
236