The story is showing from a first-person perspective the internal
growing up of a leadership process based on non-Western approach.
The main character, brought up in Europe and therefore used to
Western "cultural background noise' although practicing Chinese
martial arts, has to learn and understand the differences brought
by Far East principles if he wants to grasp leadership from a
different angle. On the whole, a Western leadership is thought and
understood as an external process of a person that influences
others. Most of leadership and management books that deal with
leadership and managers describe what and how to do it to be more
efficient and successful. They describe tools to use to do it. This
is called an external process. Outward, because others see leaders
as how they behave or how they use those tools in a leadership
style and/or process. But we all live our lives and perceive
surrounding environment only from our internal eyes. Therefore, the
focal questions raised in a book are the following: Do all leaders
have the same fears, problems, and difficulties or happiness,
pleasure, and delight in being what they are? What are their
feelings when leading people, making decisions, or taking
responsibility? How do they sense and perceive their subordinates?
In a book, those are called internal issues and are dealt with and
described through a different approach-an approach that is based on
the Far East mentality and shown through Chinese martial arts and
Chinese philosophy. The book has eighteen (18) chapters. Chapters
one to five are dedicated to the background setting and the
evolution of the story and characters; Chapters six to nine are
devoted to open different approaches and mentality that is coming
from Far East and Martial arts philosophy and in parallel gradually
introducing difficulties in leadership process and
(miss)understanding of those Far East concepts; in a Chapter ten
main character is pushed to the limits of solving leadership
dilemma and private concerns; Chapter eleven is dedicated to "open
the eyes" about the new concepts; in a Chapter twelve the
foundation of Far East philosophy behind Martial arts is described
that would be further on used for the "Leadership by Virtue"
principle; Chapters thirteen to seventeen are telling one by one
and thus portraying internal concepts used in Martial arts
principles and Eastern philosophy and how to transfer those into
(internal) leadership development; final Chapter eighteen is
dedicated to merge those Far East and Martial arts concepts and
philosophies with "known" Western ones and thus opening a new
entanglement approach proposed with the use of the Leadership by
Virtue.
General
Imprint: |
Trafford Publishing
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
February 2013 |
First published: |
February 2013 |
Authors: |
Jaro Berce
|
Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 35mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Sewn / Cloth over boards / With dust jacket
|
Pages: |
566 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4669-6508-9 |
Categories: |
Books >
Reference & Interdisciplinary >
Encyclopaedias & reference works >
General
|
LSN: |
1-4669-6508-8 |
Barcode: |
9781466965089 |
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