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Breaking the Zero-Sum Game: Transforming Societies Through Inclusive Leadership

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Editors: Aldo Boitano, H. Eric Schockman, and Raúl Lagomarsino Dutra (Emerald Publishing, 2017)

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In a world plagued by wicked problems, escaping the win- lose dynamics of zero- sum game approaches is crucial for finding integrated, inclusive solutions to complex issues. In this timely book, the reader will uncover real- life examples of inclusive leaders that have broken the zero- sum game. From Ivy League colleges to African villages, from the very top of the Catholic Church to anarchist conferences and meetings, inclusive leadership can be applied and the protagonists will tell you how.

Including a foreword from Edwin Hollander, a pioneering visionary of inclusive leadership, you will find concrete examples and tools in this book that you can start using from day one (and in your own way) as an inclusive leader.

Praise for Breaking the Zero-Sum Game: Transforming Societies Through Inclusive Leadership

The ambition of this excellent whole volume coupled with the passion in the individual chapters provides a stunning journey from authenticity to Ubuntu, from building to transforming, from China to the Congo and from work in the academy to practice in the field. Resonating with both scholars and practitioners, the book carefully establishes inclusivity as a terrain and challenges leaders to take a stand, embrace the core message, and help bring about the transformations we all seek in our organizations and communities.
Mike Hardy, CMG OBEProfessor and Executive Director, Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations at Coventry University UK
The editors and authors of Breaking the Zero-Sum Game have created a persuasive case for "inclusive leadership," mobilizing the many for shared purpose rather than a few for private gain. With an assemblage of studies, applications, and cases, Aldo Boitano, Raúl Lagomarsino Dutra, and H. Eric Schockman make a compelling case for leadership that speaks to all and seeks the common good, a vital calling at a time when the opposite seems ascendant in some quarters.
Michael Useem Professor of Management and Director of the Leadership Center, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Our world is in desperate need of a different leadership role model. This is a brilliant and important book for today's and tomorrow's leaders around the globe. Inclusive leadership, with its emphasis on humility, respect, and working together for the greater good, is the embodiment of a servant leadership culture. I believe it is the only way to create both great results and great human satisfaction. Read Breaking the Zero Sum Game, apply its unifying message to your life and work, and pass it along to others."
Ken BlanchardCoauthor of The New One Minute Manager® and Servant Leadership in Action
This book arrives at just the right moment for me: No amount of rejiggering the old theories of leadership offers solace or guidance to an increasingly dystopian and foreboding future. A new framework is needed, but what is it? This robust collection of international authors offers fresh new paradigms, yes, but also new pedagogy, practice, and possibilities for more inclusive, diverse, and democratic societies.
Georgia Jones SorensonMøller Leadership Scholar and By Fellow, Churchill College, University of Cambridge
In all my years as a public servant, I have been looking for the holy grail of getting an organizational consensus built and getting people rowing in the same direction to achieve a common vision. This cutting-edge volume provides a roadmap of constructing an inclusive and diverse culture in all sectors of society that both leaders and aspiring ones can profit from.
Ambassador Eric M. Bost (Ret)Former US Ambassador to the Republic of South Africa, Associate Director of the Borlaug Institute at Texas A & M

About the Co-Editors

Aldo Boitano is the founder/Executive Director of Executive Development. He currently teaches on International Business, Leadership and Building High Performance teams at ESE-Universidad Los Andes and at the School of Business Universidad de Chile both at corporate programs and at post-graduate and MBA level.

H. Eric Schockman is Associate Professor, Chair of the Department of Leadership and Director for the Center for Leadership at Woodbury University. He also teaches in the Ph.D program in Global Leadership and Change at Pepperdine University and previously served as Associate Dean and Associate Adjunct Professor at the Sol Price School of Public Policy at the University of Southern California.

Raúl Lagomarsino Dutra is Professor and Department Head, Organizational Behavior/Human Resources Management at ESE Business School, Universidad de Los Andes, Chile. He has almost 20 years of experience in Executive Education in some of the most prestigious Business Schools in Latin America.

Table of Contents

Foreword – Edwin P. Hollander

Preface – Aldo Boitano, Raúl Lagomarsino, and H. Eric Schockman

  1. Breaking the Zero-Sum Game: Transforming Societies Through Inclusive Leadership  – Ebere Morgan
  2. What’s in a Word?  Troubling and Reconstructing the Discourse of Inclusion  – Leigh E. Fine
  3. Fostering Inclusive Innovation Ecosystems – Lyndon Rego and Christopher Gergen
  4. Towards the “Other”: Followership Justice and Leadership Reach – Robin E.S. Carter
  5. Denizen Leaders as Radical Negotiators of Third Alternatives in Complex Societies: Not Mine, Not Yours, But Ours – Rouxelle de Villiers and Colleen Rigby
  6. Exploring Inclusive Leadership Through the Lens of a Collaborative Structure – William Clark
  1. Inclusive Leadership for a New Social Order:  Dr. A.T. Ariyaratne – Cheryl Getz and Elisa Sabatini
  2. Mercy Within Mercy: The Heart of Pope Francis’ Inclusive Leadership in a Broken World  – Dung Q. Tran and Michael R. Carey
  3. Harmony but Not Sameness: The Inclusive Leadership Style of the Chinese Profound Persons – Zhi Luan
  1. Rekindling the Legacy of Civil Rights: Leadership for an Inclusive, Just, and Compassionate Society – Juana Bordas
  2. What is “The Work” of Breaking the Zero-Sum Game? – Sarah Chace
  3. Connective Leadership: From Zero-Sum to Inclusion – Jill Robinson, Chris Cartwright, Maura Harrington, and Kevin Walsh
  4. Inclusive Leadership: A Western Concept or a Strategy That Will Transform the World? – Randal Joy Thompson
  5. The Inclusive Leader at the Centre of an Inter-Connected World – Bob Hughes and Helen Caton-Hughes
  1. Neighbors, Allies, and Partners in Inclusion: An HBCU and an SEC Land Grant Institution  – Barbara A. Baker & Joyce de Vries
  2. From Institutional Diversity and Inclusion to Societal Equity and Justice: Higher Education as a Leadership Training Ground for the Public Good – Brighid Dwyer and Ralph A. Gigliotti
  3. Dialogic Change and the Practice of Inclusive leadership – Niels Agger-Gupta and Brigitte Harris
  4. Building Inclusive Leaders: A Critical Framework for Leadership Education – Leonard D. Taylor Jr. and Ethan Brownell
  1. Transforming Leadership Through Village Outreach: Women as Change Agents in Sub-Saharan Africa – Mecca Antonia Burns, Bernard Mukisa, Lydia Sanyu, and Denis Muwanguzi
  2. Congo Calling – Blood on Our Hands – Miriam Gosling
  3. Unpacking Inclusivity: Lessons From Ubuntu Leadership – Gloria Burgess
  4. From Barriers to Breakthroughs: Leading Others Past Wicked Problems to Inclusive Practice Using Integrated Focus – Jennifer Walinga
  5. Striving for Horizontality by Addressing Power Differentials in Radical Organizing – Claire Delisle, Maria Basualdo, Adina Ilea, and Andrea Hughes
  6. Cross-Cultural Collaborators: Expatriate and Host Country National Inclusive Relationships  – Tami J. France
  7. Inclusive, Authentic, Values-based, or Opportunistic – What Counts as Leadership Today? A Case Study of Angela, Donald, Francis and Helen  – Lorraine Stefani
  8. Global Interdependence: The Inclusive Nature of Humanitarian Leaders at Heifer International – Malcom E. Glover
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