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Everything We Know About Leadership: Is Less Than We Still Have To Learn

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Thousands of people serving their communities have discovered surprising things about leadership: it's much more about listening than directing, more about learning than knowing, more about willingness to deeply challenge themselves than any special inborn qualities-and that grasping all this is a rewarding practice that never ends. This is their story.

172 pages, Paperback

First published September 17, 2013

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Jeff Golden

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Jeff Golden attended Harvard University as a National Scholar during the height of the Vietnam War and decided to swap the Ivy Halls for 20 acres in the backwoods of Oregon and a used chainsaw. He chronicled that journey in the book Watermelon Summer (Lippincott & Co, 1971). After a decade building homes, guiding whitewater river trips, and working in the forests of the Cascade Mountains, Jeff dropped back in to earn a Masters in Communications degree from Stanford University.

He has spent the last 25 years in politics, broadcasting and editorial journalism and organizational consulting. His political career includes service as a Jackson County (OR) Commissioner, Chief of Staff to the Oregon Senate President, and Environmental Policy aide to the City of Portland. During those years he wrote Forest Blood (Wellstone Books, 1998), the pre-eminent novel of the Northwest timber wars. His stand for responsible forestry made him the target of an unsuccessful recall campaign financed by national timber corporations, and earned him the first nomination ever from the state of Oregon for the JFK Profile in Courage Award, which partly sparked his newest book, UNAFRAID: A Novel of the Possible.

Jeff founded IMMENSE POSSIBILITIES (www.immensepossibilities.org), the weekly series he produces and hosts on public television. Check it out!

He lives in Ashland, Oregon, and makes a decent effort at staying balanced with cycling, rafting, music, acting and unpredictable adventures with his grown son and daughter. You can contact him directly at info@immensepossibilities.org.

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May 23, 2014
'Everything We Know About Leadership: Is Less Than We Still Have To Learn' is a distillation of 30 years of the ALF program. American Leadership Forum was started to combat the back room deals of government and establish a dialogue between leaders with different viewpoints and agendas.

The book briefly discusses the origins of the program, then gives a framework for what occurs in a year of the ALF program. Breaking down barriers and establishing trust are key, and are not always easy in this particular environment, but there is groundbreaking community building as a result. The book is full of testimonials from ALF Senior Fellows to illustrate the successes and failures. There are more successes than failures, but I applaud a book which recognizes there can be challenges among leaders with disparate roles and backgrounds. In a time when dialogue seems possible among groups that disagree, it's encouraging to know there is a group that is trying to build bridges instead of walls.

The book is written by Jeff Golden with collaboration from among many in the ALF program. Now that I know more about the ALF program, this seems only natural and right. Interesting and encouraging.

I was given a review copy of this ebook by American Leadership Forum and Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this book.
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