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Informationen zum Autor James G. March is Jack Steele Parker Professor of International Management Emeritus and Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Sociology and Education at Stanford University. He has inspired generations of students with his work in the study of organizations. His previous publications include Decisions and Organizations (1989), Behavioral Theory of the Firm (Second Edition, 1992), Organizations (Second Edition, 1993) and The Pursuit of Organizational Intelligence (1998), all published by Blackwell Publishing. Thierry Weil, a former physicist, is Professor of Technology Management at École des Mines de Paris, where he was the Dean of research and graduate studies from 1991 to 1995. He also advises companies and policy makers on the management of innovation. From 2000 to 2002, he acted as scientific advisor to the Prime Minister of France, Lionel Jospin. Klappentext For over 50 years, James G. March has made a sustained and innovative contribution to the study of organizations. In his renowned course on leadership at Stanford University he explores the problems of leadership using works of great literature, such as War and Peace and Don Quixote . These essays are based on March's notes for his course lectures. The notes have been interpreted by Thierry Weil, and translated here from his original French interpretation. March uses literature to examine a set of dilemmas related to leadership - questions concerning the balance between private life and public duties, between ingenuity and innocence, between diversity and integration, and between the expression and the control of sexuality. He encourages us to explore ideas that are sometimes subversive and unpalatable, but may allow organizations to adapt in a rapidly changing world. Zusammenfassung In this series of lectures! previously unpublished in English! and here translated from a French reconstruction and interpretation by noted scholar Thierry Weil! leading organizational scholar James March uses great works of literature to explore the problems of leadership. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword - Jean-Claude Thoenig. Preface - James G. March. Preface - Thierry Weil. 1. Introduction: an original approach to a hackneyed subject . The organization of the course. From oral to written presentation. Issues linked with leadership. 2. Othello: leadership and private life, innocence and cleverness, revenge and the social order . Prologue on the appreciation of leaders. Private life and public role. Can revenge serve the social order?. Cleverness, innocence, and virtue. Why do people act as they do?. The characters in Othello. 3. Saint Joan: are heretics mad or are they geniuses? . Exploitation and exploration. Can leaders selected for their reliability be turned into creative leaders?. Diversity and unity. Saint Joan. 4. War and Peace: ambiguity, incoherence, and irrelevance . Ambiguity and incoherence: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. Leaders confronted by ambiguity. A novel with a structure reflecting a view of history: irrelevance. The social order in War and Peace. What is power?. The powerlessness of power. Power and hierarchy. Power as seen by those who do not have it. Assuming the ambivalence of power. Identity and social order: the characters in War and Peace. Heroism and irrelevance. The social order based on merit. Why we are disappointed by our bosses. Why are bosses not particularly clever?. 5. Sex and leadership . The sexed nature of leadership in organizations. Sexuality and organizations. Private fantasies and social co...
