Leading with Everything to Give: Lessons form the success and failure of Western Capitalism

Is it possible to have an ‘undefended’  society? And what sort of leadership would  it take to accomplish that? 

Having looked at the personal character of an undefended leader in Leading out of Who You Are and at the pragmatics of wielding power in Leading with Nothing to Lose, Simon Walker next looks at the politics – and economics – of undefended leadership. In this final volume of his leadership trilogy, The Undefended Leader, he analyses the crisis in social ecology in Western culture and its global repercussions. The West says, ‘I am rich, I don’t need a thing’ but is poor and pitiful; the majority world says, ‘I am poor, I don’t have a thing’ but possesses great strength. What a tragedy it will be, Simon responds, if in the coming decades we were merely to reverse our respective poverties. What sort of society and leaders do we need for all to become truly rich? 

Undefended Leadership Trilogy

With study questions and practical ideas to help readers apply th undefended vision wherever they are. 

“I have come to see that idealism and pragmatism are n incompatible bedfellows – the grand and noble and the humble and immediate are both necessary.”