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Informationen zum Autor Colin Carnall, Chris Roebuck Klappentext This new core textbook addresses the key issues of how organisations build and develop leadership capability and examines how this ability is a key element in delivering organisational success. Focusing on the behavioural aspects of leadership, it looks at how both individuals and organisations can develop leadership talent, and how leaders can influence and shape the strategic direction of an organisation as a whole. Drawing on case studies from a variety of contexts, and punctuated with questions and activities to encourage reflective learning, the text takes a decision-making approach and looks at how senior leaders come to make and implement decisions that maximise organizational performance. This book is the ideal companion for undergraduate and postgraduate leadership students, as well as practitioners, researchers and scholars in the field. Zusammenfassung This new core textbook addresses the key issues of how organisations build and develop leadership capability and examines how this ability is a key element in delivering organisational success. Focusing on the behavioural aspects of leadership, it looks at how both individuals and organisations can develop leadership talent, and how leaders can influence and shape the strategic direction of an organisation as a whole. Drawing on case studies from a variety of contexts, and punctuated with questions and activities to encourage reflective learning, the text takes a decision-making approach and looks at how senior leaders come to make and implement decisions that maximise organizational performance.This book is the ideal companion for undergraduate and postgraduate leadership students, as well as practitioners, researchers and scholars in the field. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Strategic leadership:a key to organisational success 2. Key themes in strategic leadership 3. Development of leadership theory 4. Can leadership be developed and if so how best to do it? 5. Leading for high performance 6. Leading change 7. The ethics of leadership 8. Politics, power and perception 9. Knowledge asa leadership resource 10. Systems for organisational leadership development 11. Leadership through 'changing minds'....
