Using one case study from sports (the Vancouver
Giants hockey team) and one from
education (Hackney Schools Borough in London, England), the authors illustrate how the six components
of uplifting
leadership combine the hard and soft skills that are often set against each other in traditional
leadership practice: counterintuitive thinking combined with disciplined application; dreaming with determination; collaboration with competition; metrics with meaning; pushing and pulling people into change; and long - term sustainability with short - term success.