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Leadership Unravelled - The Faulty Thinking Behind Modern Management (Paperback)
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Leadership Unravelled - The Faulty Thinking Behind Modern Management (Paperback)
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Why is it that leaders - in social, political, and (most
importantly) organisational contexts - are seemingly unable to
address meaningfully the wicked problems and complex challenges
that we currently face? There's enormous busyness around
reconfiguring departments and adopting 'transformational' operating
models, but in general plus ca change, plus la meme chose.
Eyewatering amounts of treasure and time are spent in corporate
life on leadership development, with people working hard to try and
demonstrate that something useful has happened as a result. An
entire pseudo-science has emerged to try and prove its worth, in
part to justify the economic dividend that goes to those who make
it to the upper levels of positional power. The fetishisation of
leadership, especially strong leadership, fills our news outlets
holding up carefully distorted images of great men (leadership is
still deeply gendered) from across the worlds of politics,
business, and sports. This book explores the persistently
disappeared and unacknowledged constraints that inhibit leaders in
every context. It argues that these constraints - defined in this
volume in terms of five organisational paradoxes and six management
myths - are found at large in society and are especially impactful
in organisational life. By calling attention to, and exploring in
rigorous detail, these paradoxes and myths, this book helps
leaders, and the leadership systems they are part of, to wriggle
free of the tacit assumptions that lock them into a cul-de-sac of
simplistic prescription and heroic individualism. Once these
mind-forged manacles are removed, new forms of leadership practice
become possible, ones that are fit for purpose in engaging with a
world facing systemic crisis and existential risk. This book is
essential reading for leaders and managers at all levels looking
for solutions to traditionally simplistic leadership practice and
who want to affect systemic change. It will be beneficial to all
those in the world of leadership development including business
schools and HR departments.
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