Leadership

Charismatic Leadership: The role of charisma in the global financial crisis provides a theoretically-driven and intuitively appealing analysis of the role that charisma played in the global financial crisis of 2008. This book looks at how charismatic leadership can contribute to organizational effec..

This book introduces a unique and practical coaching style as a way of interacting with colleagues, managing direct-reports, helping others solve problems, responding to change, making effective choices and developing professionally. It draws from four evidence-based models for interacting with othe..

Drawing on the new challenges that leaders face such as responding to Eurozone financial contagion, the growth of social networks, and the rise of Asian competitors, this fully updated and re-structured text provides an easily accessible ‘how-to guide’ for collaborative leadership in the private and..

Drawing on the new challenges that leaders face such as responding to Eurozone financial contagion, the growth of social networks, and the rise of Asian competitors, this fully updated and re-structured text provides an easily accessible ‘how-to guide’ for collaborative leadership in the private and..

Greg Park argues that corporate superstars collapse not primarily due to poor products, inadequate market penetration, financial mismanagement or self-aggrandisement, but rather by a leadership lacking the fundamental values, principles, perspectives, attributes and capabilities for long term organi..

Rather than approaching leadership from the traditional model emphasizing specific skillsets, this book acquaints students with how to learn leadership using the ReAChS model of leadership development (Reflection, Assessment, Challenge, Support)...

The development of leadership capacities addresses a vital need for communities and organizations as they attempt to adapt to a wide range of social, economic, environmental, and political challenges. To help meet such needs, this book brings together a variety of seminal leadership theory, research..

Complex Adaptive Leadership, a Gower bestseller, has been taught in corporate leadership programmes, business schools and universities around the world to high acclaim. In this updated paperback edition, the author argues that leadership is a complex dynamic process and should involve all those enga..

We all seem intuitively to know leadership 'isn't what it used to be' but we still cling to old assumptions which look anachronistic in changing and challenging times. Organisations and their contexts are increasingly paradoxical and uncertain. A broader approach to leadership is needed. Nick Obolen..

Companies can no longer expect to engage in dubious or unethical corporate behaviour without risking their reputation and damaging, perhaps irrevocably, their market position. Irresponsible corporate behavior not only deprives shareholders of long term returns but also ultimately imposes a cost on s..

The study of corporate governance is a relatively modern development, with significant attention devoted to the subject only during the last fifty years. The introductory essay describes the intellectual history of the field and analyses the material selected for the volume. The selected papers co..

_x005F_x000D_ Leadership is vital to creativity and successful innovation in groups and organizations; leadership is however seldom studied in the academic literature as a creativity driver. A number of specialist authors in this volume offer original theoretical, empirical, and applied chapters tha..