Interaction Associates Thought Leader Jay Gordon Cone Challenges Leaders to Measure Success Based on Whether They’re In a Finite or Infinite Game In a New Book, Building Leadership Bridges 2011: Leadership for Transformation.

Cambridge, MA March 21, 2011.  When is it best — and perhaps necessary — to define success differently than how you typically measure it?  The answer depends on whether you’re in a finite or infinite game, according to the latest thinking of Jay Gordon Cone, a senior consultant and thought leader at Interaction Associates.

Cone’s ideas are detailed in a chapter he penned for the just-released book, Building Leadership Bridges 2011: Leadership for Transformation, from the International Leadership Association (ILA). The annual volume in ILA’s ongoing leadership series details contemporary thinking about leadership from a diverse range of practitioners and educators working in the field of leadership studies.  Published by Jossey-Bass/Wiley, Building Leadership Bridges explores various ideas and methods for researching, imagining, and experiencing leadership across cultures, over time, and around the world.

Cone is a senior consultant and client engagement leader at Interaction Associates, the 40-year innovator of advanced leadership methods. IA specializes in helping clients develop a new type of dynamic leader — the facilitative leader — a strategic, self-aware and collaborative leader who is deeply grounded in methods and skills that promote employee engagement, trust and performance.

Cone’s chapter, called “Authentic Accountability: Tapping the Power of the Infinite Game,” challenges leaders to consider that success may mean something more than just “winning” as it’s most commonly defined or viewed.

“Leaders are often looking to increase accountability in their organizations, as if there’s a process or system that can compel people to become more trustworthy,” said Cone. “Accountability is what results when leaders connect an individual’s work to his or her passion,” he added.

Read more about Jay Cone here.