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Athletic CEOs: Leadership in Turbulent Times presents an unorthodox model of effective business leadership for turbulent environments - athletic leadership - that delivers superior results in a specific context, that is, one of fast obsolescence, high turbulence, intense government interference, mediocre levels of human capital development, and traditionally high levels of managerial control.
List of contents
Introduction; Chapter 1: Athletic Leadership; Chapter 2: The Agenda and Practices of Athletic Leaders; Chapter 3: Effectiveness of Athletic Leadership: Outputs and Outcomes; Chapter 4: Vitaly Saveliev: Passion and Innovation at the Old Airline; Chapter 5: Eugene Kaspersky: Building a Global Company in an Unlikely Place; Chapter 6: Alexander Dyukov: Quiet Transformation of Gazprom Neft; Chapter 7: Sberbank: Entrepreneurship in the Least Likely Place; Chapter 8: Athletic Leadership in Other Contexts; Chapter 9: Athletic Leadership for Non-athletes; Chapter 10: Conclusion; Index.
About the author
Stanislav Shekshnia is a senior affiliate professor of entrepreneurship and family business at INSEAD, France. His research concentrates on leadership, leadership development, and effective governance in emerging markets and organizations.
Alexey Ulanovsky is an associate professor at the National Research University - Higher School of Economics, Russia. He teaches business psychology and group communications.
Veronika Zagieva is the head of Ward Howell Talent Equity Institute, an internal research and development division of the Ward Howell Group, where she specializes in research on leadership and corporate governance.