Smart Leadership - Wise Leadership : Environments of Value in an Emerging Future.
| Author/creator | Steed, Chris |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Milton : Taylor and Francis, 2017. |
| Description | 1 online resource (193 pages) |
| Supplemental Content | ProQuest Ebook Central |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Foreword; Setting the scene; Notes; 1. Smart leadership from the emerging future; The revolt of unrealistic expectations (leadership in turbulent times); Nanosensors and the Internet of Nanothings; Next-generation batteries; The blockchain; 2D materials; Autonomous vehicles; Organs-on-chips; Perovskite solar cells; Open AI ecosystem; Optogenetics; Systems metabolic engineering; Notes; 2. Re-conceiving strategy; Emergence and the unpredictable; Another way; Notes; 3. Eating strategy for breakfast; Culture wars. |
| Contents | Case study; The institutional defence game (and its opponents); Notes; 4. The Fourth Industrial Revolution and the human dimension; The labour theory of value revisited; Notes; 5. The creation and conversion of shared value; A question of definition; Shareholder (or shared) value; The equation; Evidence for the link between inner and outer value; Case study -- Managers blamed for NHS deficits; Notes; 6. Three ingredients of a valuing environment: Proposing a construct; In search of empirical evidence -- emotional cognition and reflection as research; Case study; Results; The contrast; Notes. |
| Contents | 7. Lifting the LID on your organisation; Look, learn and listen (vs indifference); Case study; Involve and include; Dignify; A community of practice; Notes; 8. Communities with a purpose: Significance with belonging; The role of faith-based communities; Leading non-profit organisations; The human dimension: Working with the construct; Facework; Place; Future notes; Notes; 9. Environments of value, systems and the organisations of the future; Organism or organisation; Notes; 10. The future leadership garden; Future-proofing our children. |
| Contents | 1 Nurture the professionals -- an environment of value is one where teachers are trusted to function, not de-skilled2 Nurture a much wider and less impoverished view of what constitutes achievement; Case study -- symposium on education North Devon April 2014; 3 Nurture the learner -- thinking for themselves; 4 Nurture human connections -- introduce learners to each other; Notes; 11. Listen to the music (and help change the song): Wise leaders and transformative change; Concerns, not demands; Creativity and empathy; Global leadership; Transformative change and the culture of an organisation. |
| Contents | Getting to yes: the bottom line and the skill of negotiation; Two metaphors; Listen to the music (and change the song); A course in executive education based on this idea; Notes; 12. Leadership with spirit: Wisdom and the black box of power; Ten commandments for the wise leader in highly complex times; Notes; Postscript; Motivational drivers and human value theory: Maslow revisited; The dog that didn't bark; Motivated by power; Conclusion; Notes; Index. |
| Abstract | "There is a strong link between organisational culture and profit after all a happy workforce is a productive workforce. Yet a culture of inertia rather than innovation prevails in many organisations. Wise leaders, however, know how to work with the grain of human value and worth, harnessing it, so as to add shared value both for the organisation and for the good of society. So, how can astute leaders set the right conditions for creativity and cultivate non-economic goods, such as time and relationships, that make for a happy, effective workforce? The author proposes the notion of organisational culture as environments of value wherein inner value translated into external value is embedded within the triple bottom line and indeed an awareness of how an organisation is like a force field: it exercises power and leaves a footprint. This construct informs the emerging concept of Shared Value as requiring five literacies about: Shareholder value and return for risk, Value for the social environment linked to respect for the natural environment, Inner value of those in the enterprise, which, when unlocked, releases energies and adds value, Nurture of non-quantifiable qualities that promote human flourishing, Understandings of how power relations distort the way organisations operate He clearly signposts the link between promoting an environment of value within which these literacies flourish and the added value for the organisation arising from such a culture."--Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Source of description | Print version record. |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Steed, Christopher. Smart Leadership - Wise Leadership : Environments of Value in an Emerging Future. Milton : Taylor and Francis, ©2017 9781472484734 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 9781317142126 |
| ISBN | 1317142128 |
| ISBN | 9781315580074 |
| ISBN | 1315580071 |