Unnatural Leadership: Going Against Intuition and Experience to Develop Ten New Leadership Instincts/ David L. Dotlich, Peter C. Cairo ; foreword by Stephen H. Rhinesmith.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-255) and index.

pt. 1. The importance of unnatural leadership -- Ten unnatural acts : exercise, assessing your unnatural leadership -- Adapting to an increasingly unnatural environment : exercise, breaking the rules of natural leadership -- Resistance factors : exercise, assessing your resistance to unnatural leadership -- pt. 2. Personal challenges for the unnatural leader -- Refuse to be a prisoner of experience : exercise, refuse to be a prisoner of experience -- Expose your vulnerabilities : exercise, exposing your vulnerabilities -- Acknowledge the shadow side : exercise, acknowledging your shadow side -- Develop a right-versus-right decision-making mentality : exercise, a tool for developing an unnatural decision-making mentality -- pt. 3. Leading teams as an unnatural leader -- Create teams that create discomfort : exercise, create teams that create discomfort -- Trust others before they earn it : exercise, trusting others before they earn it -- Coach and teach rather than lead and inspire : exercise, coaching and teaching rather than leading and inspiring -- pt. 4. Leading the organization as an unnatural leader -- Connect instead of create : exercise, connecting instead of creating -- Give up some control : exercise, giving up some control -- Challenge the conventional wisdom : exercise, challenging the conventional wisdom -- Giving yourself unnatural options.