Lateral Leading - A Very Brief Introduction

In organizations, there are always situations that can t be fixed with top-down directives. Often the only thing left to do is to craft cooperative relationships through understanding, power, or trust. The concept of lateral leading leading to the side brings together ideas about how we can create processes of understanding, construct arenas of power, and build trusting (or mistrusting) relationships.

List of contents

Chapter 1. Lateral Leadership Introduction.- Chapter 2. Power, Understanding and Trust The Three Pillars of Lateral Leadership.- Chapter 3. The Interplay of the Three Mechanisms of Influence.- Chapter 4. Connection to the Formal Structure of Organizations.- Chapter 5. How Do You Lead Laterally Through Processes of Change? Applying the Concept.- Chapter 6. Outlook Additional Search Fields for Further Developing the Concept of Lateral Leadership.

About the author

Stefan Kühl is professor of sociology at the University of Bielefeld in Germany and works as a consultant for Metaplan, a consulting firm based in Princeton, Hamburg, Shanghai, Singapore, Versailles and Zurich. He studied sociology and history at the University of Bielefeld (Germany), Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore (USA), Université Paris-X-Nanterre (France) and the University of Oxford (UK).

Summary

In organizations, there are always situations that can’t be fixed with top-down directives. Often the only thing left to do is to craft cooperative relationships through understanding, power, or trust. The concept of lateral leading–leading to the side – brings together ideas about how we can create processes of understanding, construct arenas of power, and build trusting (or mistrusting) relationships.

Product details

• Authors: Stefan Kühl
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English, German
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.10.2025
• EAN: 9783032053428
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3205342-8
• No. of pages: 55
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 4 mm x 203 mm
• Weight: 103 g
• Illustrations: IX, 55 p.
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Labour, economic and industrial sociology; Power, Strategisches Management, Soziologie: Arbeit und Beruf, Economic Sociology, Leadership, Organization, Organisationstheorie und -verhalten, Trust, Hierarchy, Business Strategy and Leadership, Sociology of Organizations and Occupations, Understanding, Organizational sociology, lateral leading