Rethinking Leadership

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Juta and Company Ltd, 2000 - 139 pages
In the twenty-first century, leaders are having to speak a new language, create fluid organic structures, and recognise organisations as systems with self-renewing capacity. This book explores what real leadership means, encouraging the reader to look within.
 

Contents

Awareness
1
ix
9
Understanding power and group dynamics
20
Openness The Times are aChanging
27
Simplicity New Science and Leadership
33
What do you understand
40
Leaders of transformation
46
Connectivity
69
Process Strategy and Leadership
83
Followership A Personal Reflection on Leading by Following
89
Stewardship The Leader as Servant
99
Ambiguity Leadership Incongruities Tensions and Paradoxes
109
Epilogue The New Landscape
117
Bibliography
127
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Kurt April is Professor at the University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business, Research Fellow at Ashridge Business School in the UK, Orchestrator for Duke Corporate Education in the USA and Associate Fellow at Said Business School at Oxford University. He lectures and researches in the disciplines of leadership, diversity and inclusion.

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