Leadership and Strategic Succession - The How and Why for Boards and Ceos

Based on a review of the literature and several in-depth case studies, this book suggests a strategy-as-practice framework for succession and explores leadership logic, trust and followership. This book takes the reader through the key stages and disciplines required for effective top-level succession.

Corporations, growing entrepreneurial companies and family owners all must manage strong group dynamics and individual needs in a succession transition. This book includes a wide range of global client cases, including public sector organizations, corporations, entrepreneurial firms and family owners. Based on rigorous research and written in an accessible style with a focus on practical needs, readers will also be able to combine this analysis within disciplines of governance, leadership, strategy and organizational development.

This book will be of interest to students at an advanced level, academics and reflective practitioners as well as executives at the top levels of businesses.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Intoduction PART I. EXIT OF A CEO AND STRATEGIC SUCCESSION 2. Successions as Crossroads 3. Strategic Successions 4. The force of group dynamics 5. Managing feelings and emotions 6. Logic on Leadership: How successions creates leadership Part II. ENTRY OF A CEO AND FOLLOWERSHIP 7. Agent of evolution or transformation? 8. The Handover and CEO entry 9. Succession or Incubation? 10. Authority and Power 11. The Board: Trust and Followership 12. The social and psychodynamic in successions

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Gry Osnes, PhD, works as an independent executive coach and researcher with family owners, entrepreneurship businesses and with chairs of boards.
Agnes Wilhelmsen, classics student, Exeter University, and research assistant for the book.

Zusammenfassung

One of the central purposes of a board is to effect a successful change of leadership; this book explains the complex organizational, psychological and interpersonal dynamics involved, distilling key disciplines required in a rigorous yet accessible practical handbook

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Gry Osnes, Gry Wilhelmsen Osnes, Osnes Gry, Agnes Wilhelmsen
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9780367685171
• ISBN: 978-0-367-68517-1
• Seiten: 194
• Serie: Routledge Studies in Leadership Research
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Psychologie > Angewandte Psychologie; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Wirtschaft > Sonstiges; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Organizational Behavior, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Leadership, Small businesses & self-employed, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Small Business, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Motivational, Organizational theory & behaviour, Management: leadership & motivation, Management: leadership and motivation, Personnel & human resources management, Small businesses and self-employment, Personnel and human resources management, Organizational theory and behaviour, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Freelance & Self-Employment