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Good leadership is not innate–one must learn to lead by mastering five core competencies Business, nonprofit, and public sector leaders are facing new and daunting challenges–rapid–paced developments in technology, sudden shifts in the marketplace, and crisis and contention in the public arena. This book provides insights into the dynamics of change and the role of leadership in managing and coping with the change process. Leadership today requires the ability to mobilize constituents to do important but difficult work under conditions of constant change, overload, and fragmentation. This book shows leaders how they can effectively accomplish their goals–by attending to their broader moral purpose, keeping on top of the change process, cultivating relationships, sharing knowledge, and setting a vision and context for creating coherence in their organizations. Michael Fullan (Toronto, Ontario) is Dean of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education at the University of Toronto. He is recognized as an international authority on organizational change, and is currently engaged in training, consulting, and evaluating organizational change projects around the world. He is the author of numerous books, including Change Forces and The New Meaning of Educational Change.