Preface: Cats and Rats -- Introduction: An Invented Life -- The Leadership Crisis -- The Leadership Crisis -- Where Have All the Leaders Gone? -- Long Slide from True Leadership -- The Leader as Hero -- Untapped Human Capital -- Quitting on Principle -- Leadership Pornography and Optional Ethics -- What Makes a Leader? -- Mr. Wright Is Wrong -- Leadership for Tomorrow -- Developing Leaders -- Four Competencies of Great Leaders -- Ten Traits of Dynamic Leaders -- Creative Leadership -- Leaders Invent Themselves -- Leading Followers, Following Leaders -- Perils of Accord, Advantages of Access -- Leading for Results -- Learning to Lead -- How Leaders Learn -- Critical Thinking -- Leading Change -- Change: The New Metaphysics -- Introducing Change -- Change Agents -- Too Many Chiefs -- From CEO to CTO -- COPs and ACEs -- Shakes and Quakes -- Dealing with the Way Things Are -- Winning and Losing -- A New Wake-Up Call -- Epilogue: Reflections on Retirement.