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Fourteen captains of industry. One hour of intense, candid and
often brutal examination with each leader. Courageous conversations
takes the reader on a privileged walk through the corridors of
corporate power, on a journey to the centre of leadership. What is
leadership? How have these remarkable individuals steered their
companies through times of largeness and, more recently, recession?
Has the board become an outdated model? Are visions, values and
ethics being sacrificed on the altar of profitability? Has
executive remuneration really gone too far? The ultimate goal: to
discover what lessons can be learned and taken on board for the
next generation of South Africa's corporate leaders. David Gleason,
a well-known financial journalist and columnist, gets into the
minds, and ultimately the hearts, of these celebrated leaders with
often surprising and dramatic consequences. Courageous
conversations is a fearless exposition of real-life leadership. It
stands apart from other books in the field of leadership with its
dual-analysis format: one analysis written by Gleason and an
academic analysis of each interview by Professor Stella Nkomo, with
contributions from Professor Derick de Jongh. Each interview has
been transcribed and copied onto a CD, which accompanies the book.
This book contributes to the development of a relational view of
economics. Bringing together experts from various disciplines, it
offers an interdisciplinary perspective on the study of relational
transactions. In contrast to discrete market transactions as a
traditional subject of economic discourse, the book analyses the
role of relational transactions in the study of economic phenomena.
The contributing authors address topics such as global intra- and
inter-company networks, intersectoral stakeholder management,
relational contracts, and transcultural management approaches.
Accordingly, the book makes an important contribution to an
emerging field of research.
The Albert Luthuli Centre for Responsible Leadership invited papers
related to responsible leadership from a trans-disciplinary
perspective involving the social and natural sciences. Subsequent
to a lengthy review process, fifteen authors were invited to
present at the the 3rd International Conference on Responsible
Leadership; from these, five papers were finally selected to appear
in this Special Edition. Management, leadership, and business
knowledge by itself cannot ensure a sustainable and equitable
future. What is needed is an integration of knowledge about
responsible leadership across disciplinary boundaries, ranging from
management studies and the physical sciences, to law, the
humanities and social science. Only by integrating across current
disciplinary boundaries can we find hope for generating what has
been termed "earth system governance", a way for humanity to manage
the complexities of the world to create a just, equitable, and
sustainable world for all. The five papers included in this special
edition provide insight into responsible leadership and the
importance of interdisciplinary dialogue in an interconnected and
complex world. The perspectives converge to give us focused
insights on responsible leadership as an emerging discourse,
confirming the importance of bridging science, business and
politics, and the role that responsible leadership plays in this.
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