1. Leadership for a changing world : a call to adaptive work -- 2. How do we begin? : differing expectations -- 3. What is really going on here? : engaging people at the edge of learning -- 4. Learning from failure in public : the power of small group consultation -- 5. Listening to the music beneath the words : the practice of presence -- 6. What endures? : the power of language, image, and metaphor -- 7. Courage and costs : discovering how to teach the unteachable -- 8. The same approach - other teachers : the question of transferability -- 9. Toward a more adequate myth : the art of leadership -- 10. Leadership can be learned : strengths and limitations of this approach.