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Includes bibliographical references and index.

A universal model of leadership and the leadership circle profile assessment -- The promise of leadership: meeting the high bar of expectations -- Leadership effectiveness and business performance: the primary competitive advantage -- Mastery and maturity, consciousness and complexity: the leadership development agenda -- Stages of development: the backbone of the universal model of leadership -- Five levels of leadership: structures of mind and performance -- The universal model and metrics: global leadership, cross-cultural, and gender application -- The leadership system: the central organizing system -- Reactive leadership: an insufficient triumph of development -- Reactive leadership at work: from patriarchy to partnership -- Creative leadership: fulfilling the promise of leadership -- Six leadership practices: spiritual boot camp for leaders -- Integral leadership: built for complexity, designed for transformation -- Unity: journey's end, development turned upside down.