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Complexity and Leadership (Paperback)
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Complexity and Leadership (Paperback)
Series: Complexity and Management
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Leading organisations in our contemporary world means grappling
with unpredictability, painful pressures and continual conflict,
all in the context of an acceleration in the pace of change. We
expect the impossible from heroic leaders and they rarely live up
to expectations. With countless recommendations, self-help books
and new concepts, scholars and management consultants often
simplify and dream unrealistically. This book challenges the more
orthodox discourse on leadership and presents a way of thinking
about leadership that pays closer attention to experience. The
contributors in this book, all senior managers or facilitators of
leadership development, resist easy solutions, new typologies or
unrealistic prescriptions. Writing about their experiences in
Denmark, the UK, Israel, Ethiopia, South Africa and beyond, they
are less concerned with traits that people can possess and learn,
or magical promises of recipes for success, and more with the
socio-political process of the interaction between people from
which leadership emerges as a theme. We focus on understanding
leadership as a practice within which communication, research,
imagination and ethical judgements are continuously improvised. So
rather than idealising leadership, or reducing it to soothing tools
and techniques, we suggest how leaders might become more
politically, emotionally and socially savvy. This book is written
for academics and practitioners with an interest in the everyday
challenges of both individual and group practices of formal and
informal leaders in different types of organisations, and is an
ideal resource for executives and students on leadership
development programmes. We hope this volume will help readers to
expand the wisdom found in their own experience and discover for
themselves and for others, a greater sense of freedom.
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