Virtuous Leaders - Strategy, Character, and Influence in the 21st Century

Informationen zum Autor Richard R. Kilburg Klappentext In these trying times, how can executives and other business, government, and non-profit leaders guide their organizations to success amid the challenges of the modern world? In this extensively researched, yet thoroughly practical, book, renowned executive consultant Richard Kilburg characterizes effective leadership as a combination of specific behaviourally-based competencies and virtuous aspects of character. Zusammenfassung In this book! renowned executive consultant Richard R. Kilburg demonstrates that despite the complexity of the modern world! the foundations of executive leadership still reside in the timeless virtues of the ancient Chinese and Greeks. Inhaltsverzeichnis PrefaceThe Timeless Need for LeadersEstablishing Strategy and Setting Direction: What Is Expected From ExecutivesThe Psychodynamic Origins of Seven Deadly Management ErrorsWisdom, Courage, Temperance, Justice, and Reverence: Platonic Virtues and Leadership CompetenceReverence and Temperance: Foundations for Virtuous LeadershipThe Evolution of Executive Conscience and the Practice of JusticeThe Arts of Strategic Influence: Making Effective Performance PossibleEpilogueReferencesIndexAbout the Author

Product details

• Authors: Richard R. Kilburg, KILBURG RICHARD R
• Publisher: American psychological assn
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.01.2012
• EAN: 9781433810961
• ISBN: 978-1-4338-1096-1
• No. of pages: 254
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research