The Cornerstone Concept addresses many issues crucial to leadership
in today s organizations and indeed, in all of society. Some of these
are: What is high level leadership? Why is it important? What is the
scale of differentiation of self? How does one advance up the scale?
What are guiding principles and how do we get them? Why is it
important to work on one s family relationships? What is meant by
taking a stand ? Can a leader help a floundering society to pull up ?
The Cornerstone Concept will be of enormous value to leaders immersed
in disturbed family situations, complex and chaotic organizations,
and indeed, societal regression itself. The book is based primarily
on one special concept of Bowen family system theory, differentiation
of self, which Bowen regarded as the cornerstone concept. It takes
its place with two other texts, Extraordinary Leadership Thinking
Systems, Making a Difference and now well known The Eight Concepts of
Bowen Theory, to complete a trio of leadership texts, that were
developed over the course of teaching and directlng the Extraordinary
Leadership Seminar. This seminar series began when Dr. Roberta
Gilbert was asked by a major denomination to create a training
opportunity that would enrich their clergy. Pastors and other leaders
were running into problems that they were unprepared to handle;
namely, the emotional side of organizations. To fill this crucial gap
in leadership training, Dr. Gilbert designed the Extraordinary
Leadership Seminar. Increasingly, leaders in other fields are also
finding their way to the Extraordinary Leadership Seminar that she
designed, based on Bowen family system theory. Dr. Gilbert s own
leadership qualities, honed by her training and experience with Dr.
Murray Bowen, as well as her years of experience in practice and with
participants in the seminar, come through in the pages of this book.
Her unusual ability to condense and clarify the concepts of Bowen
theory shines forth in The Cornerstone Concept as it has in her other
successful books.
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