Introduction: The dreams, and nightmares, of leaders -- Negotiating the dream: lessons in the art of leading. Managing the dream -- The four competencies of leadership -- On the leading edge of change -- Change: the new metaphysics -- Information overload anxiety (and how to overcome it) -- Cope with speed and complexity (raplexity) -- The leadership advantage -- Organizing the dream: social architecture for the new global village. Is democracy inevitable? -- The coming death of bureaucracy -- Corporate boards -- Our federalist future -- The secrets of great groups -- The end of leadership -- Paradigm shifts -- The case for co-leaders -- Embodying the dream: lessons in character. An invented life -- The years of scholarship: an intellectual memoir -- The Wallenda factor -- When to resign -- Followership -- The leader as storyteller -- Operating on instinct -- Postscript: The future has no shelf life.