Complexity and leadership / edited by Kiran Chauhan, Emma Crewe and Chris Mowles.
| Other author | Chauhan, Kiran, editor. |
| Other author | Crewe, Emma, 1962- editor. |
| Other author | Mowles, Chris, editor. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication | Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023. |
| Copyright Date | ©2023 |
| Description | 1 online resource (xxi, 243 pages). |
| Supplemental Content | Ebook Central |
| Subjects |
| Series | Complexity and management Routledge studies on complexity in management. ^A576471 |
| Abstract | "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 political, 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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Source of description | Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 10, 2023). |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Complexity and leadership Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023 9780367551599 |
| LCCN | 2022012335 |
| ISBN | 9781003092230 electronic book |
| ISBN | 1003092233 electronic book |
| ISBN | 9781000646160 electronic book |
| ISBN | 1000646165 electronic book |
| ISBN | paperback |
| ISBN | hardcover |
| Stock number | 9781003092230 Taylor & Francis |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |