Outsider Leadership
Outsider Leadership

Author: Chris O'Riordan

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2019-03-07

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 3319974637

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Encompassing interviews with managing directors and CEOs, this book explores the role of business outsiders as leaders. Viewing the term ‘outsider’ in a broad sense, the book considers leader background, perspective, gender, training and family membership and examines the implications, challenges and benefits brought by outsider leaders to their respective business environments. The authors explore questions and themes such as how outsider leaders can enrich an organisation, the importance of relationships and adopting a ‘hybrid’ approach, illuminated by interviewee perspectives. Introducing discussion and analysis through these narratives, Outsider Leadership distils commonalities to frame understanding of their experiences.

The Outsiders
The Outsiders

Author: William Thorndike

Publisher: Harvard Business Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1422162672

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It's time to redefine the CEO success story. Meet eight iconoclastic leaders who helmed firms where returns on average outperformed the S&P 500 by more than 20 times.

Paths to Power
Paths to Power

Author: Anthony J. Mayo

Publisher: Harvard Business Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 292

ISBN-13: 9781422101988

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Traces changes in the demographic composition of American business leadership. Through statistical analysis of their large leadership database and biographical sketches of individuals who rose to the top of corporate America, this book reveals mechanisms of advancement. It is intended for scholars, practitioners, and journals.

The Emerald Handbook of Authentic Leadership
The Emerald Handbook of Authentic Leadership

Author: Romeo V. Turcan

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2023-10-05

Total Pages: 588

ISBN-13: 180262015X

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The Emerald Handbook of Authentic Leadership is a quest for interdisciplinary insights arising out of theory and practice. It is intended for a wide readership interested in leadership and leadership authenticity in the contemporary world.

The Art of Political Leadership
The Art of Political Leadership

Author: Fred I. Greenstein

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 310

ISBN-13: 9780742539648

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Fred Greenstein has been a paragon of scholarship and practical advice in his many years of work on the presidency. Here, some of the leading scholars of the presidency and leadership studies come together to pay tribute to Greenstein and his work. Original essays reflect the broad sweep of Greenstein's scholarship from the systematic study of personality and politics to the analysis of chief executives from Woodrow Wilson on. The essayists pay special attention to the political styles, advisory systems, and decision-making processes of presidents from the 1920s to today. In his studies of the American presidency, Greenstein pioneered the use of archival documents to test hypotheses and illuminate issues that bear on the performance of the modern executive office. The distinguished list of contributors to this volume include John Burke, Robert A. Dahl, Alexander and Juliette George, Betty Glad, Alonzo Hamby, Erwin Hargrove, John Kessel, Anthony King, Kenneth Kitts, J. Donald Moon, and Fred Greenstein's first and last graduate students at Princeton--Larry Berman and Meena Bose. Greenstein himself generously writes a new essay on 'Plumbing the Presidential Psyche, ' adding to his substantial contributions to political psychology.

A Leadership Kick in the Ass
A Leadership Kick in the Ass

Author: Bill Treasurer

Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers

Published: 2017-01-16

Total Pages: 187

ISBN-13: 1626568049

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“This is one of the most unique and valuable books you will read all year, and I highly recommend it.” —Jim Kouzes, coauthor of the bestselling and award-winning The Leadership Challenge and Dean's Executive Fellow of Leadership, Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University Even the best leaders—in fact, most of the best leaders—start out as decidedly bad ones. And sooner or later they reach a moment of reckoning that leadership expert Bill Treasurer calls the leadership kick in the ass. When it happens, it feels like it's all over. But Treasurer says that with the right attitude, that kick can be a new beginning. Based on his work with thousands of leaders, this book reveals how to turn those ego-bruising events into the kind of transformative experiences that mark the paths of great leaders. As Steve Jobs famously said, “Getting fired was the best thing that ever happened to me.” This book is a survival guide, coach, and morale booster to help you use that kick to move forward instead of fall down. If you succeed, the next place you get kicked might be upstairs.

International Perspectives on Leadership in Higher Education
International Perspectives on Leadership in Higher Education

Author: Alasdair Blair

Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing

Published: 2022-11-21

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1802623051

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As complex, large institutions, universities present unique challenges for leaders. International Perspectives on Leadership in Higher Education examines how contemporary leaders in higher education – in different disciplines, at different levels and in different parts of the world – are identified, developed and supported.

Global Leadership and Wisdoms of the World
Global Leadership and Wisdoms of the World

Author: Eric H. Kessler

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2024-10-03

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 1803926112

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This innovative book excavates hidden wisdoms from 17 diverse language cultures around the world, from Arabic and British-English to Russian and Swahili. Further, it explores their critical insights for global leadership, extrapolating important lessons on group dynamics, decision-making, conflict management, motivation, ethics, communication, diversity, strategy, and organizational effectiveness.

Public Leadership
Public Leadership

Author: Paul 't Hart

Publisher: ANU E Press

Published: 2008-11-01

Total Pages: 302

ISBN-13: 1921536314

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'Leadership' is routinely admired, vilified, ridiculed, invoked, trivialised, explained and speculated about in the media and in everyday conversation. Despite all this talk, there is surprisingly little consensus about how to answer basic questions about the nature, place, role and impact of leadership in contemporary society. This book brings together academics from a broad array of social science disciplines who are interested in contemporary understandings of leadership in the public domain. Their work on political, administrative and civil society leadership represents a stock-take of what we need to know and offers original examples of what we do know about public leadership. Although this volume connects scholars living in, and mostly working on, public leadership in Australia and New Zealand, their contributions have a much broader scope and relevance.

Leadership in Complexity and Change
Leadership in Complexity and Change

Author: Sharon Varney

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2021-10-25

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 3110713349

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If we needed a reminder that the world is complex and in constant motion, then 2020 certainly delivered. Suddenly, the inherent uncertainties and ambiguities of leadership were starkly revealed for all to see as the dynamics of complexity and change played out intensively, and very publicly, on the global stage. Leadership in Complexity and Change draws on complexity science to paint a picture of a world in constant motion, where leadership is enacted in the midst of complexity and continuous change. We must learn to engage with complexity. If not now, when? Part I of this insightful book brings complexity science to life by considering the practical challenges of complexity and its implications for leadership. Part II considers how leaders can reinvigorate existing tools and approaches with a new mindset, before offering some new tools and practices for learning informed leadership. Part III concludes by considering the person in the practice of leadership in complexity and change. Key ideas are presented through mini-cases and practical examples embedded throughout the book. This book will help executives, managers, and professionals recognise where some of the challenges come from understand why those challenges persist engage with the dynamic patterning of organisational life appreciate the scope for leadership recognise the choices that can be made choose how to manage themselves