Leading with a Limp: Take Full Advantage of Your Most Powerful Weakness Book

Acknowledgments     xi
Introduction: What Are You in For?     1
A Leadership Confession: Flight Is the Only Sane Response     11
Who Is a Leader?: Why It's Necessary to First Count the Cost     25
A Case Study in Successful Failed Leadership: The Isakson Construction Company     37
It's Failing That Matters!: Nothing Succeeds Like Imperfection     49
Facing Crisis: The Other Shoe Weighs a Ton     63
The Problem of Complexity: All Leaders See Through a Glass Darkly     79
No More Jackasses: Wrestling with Betrayal Without Becoming a Jerk     95
Escaping Solitary Confinement: The Truth That Sets a Lonely Leader Free     109
Worn to a Nub: The Exhaustion and Disillusionment That Introduce True Hope     125
Defining Your Calling: Three Decisions You Make as Chief Sinner     137
The Purpose of Limping Leadership: Forming Character, Not Running an Organization     143
The Community of Character: No One Grows to Maturity Alone     155
Telling Secrets: The Risks of Admitting You're the Chief Sinner     171
Three Leaders You Can't Do Without: Why You Need a Prophet, a Priest, and a King     185
Notes     201