Dilemmas of Leadership

In this essential new text, Rickards and Clark encourage students and practitioners alike to delve deeper into leadership complexities and to discover what's new and important by testing and re-drawing their leadership 'maps': their aspirations of leadership. This exciting text reviews issues such as transactional leadership, transformational leadership, 5th level leadership, servant leadership, and the management of ethical dilemmas, and in illustrating the confusions and contradictions of leadership, it develops an approach that will prove invaluable. Important issues covered include: <ul>
<li>trust based leadership</li> <li>social identity explanations of leadership</li> <li>distributed leadership</li> <li>'tipping point' theory of transformational change. </li>
</ul> The book’s structure, insightful writing style and original approach encourage readers to reflect critically on the relationship between theory and practice as each theme is addressed and accompanying case studies examined. Visit the Companion website at http://cw.routledge.com/textbooks/0415355850/

Business & Money

Rickards, Tudor

Management & Leadership

Routledge

Leadership, as a way of focusing and motivating a group or organization to achieve its aims, is a much discussed but often misunderstood concept. This comprehensive textbook introduces the subject for Masters level students. Building on the success of the first edition, this text utilises an easy to follow, map-based approach to take the reader on a journey through the various fundamental dilemmas apparent within leadership studies, dilemmas such as:  Is a leader born or made? How are tensions between ethical dilemmas and economic self-interest resolved? How does a leader's desire for control balance with the need to empower members of the organization? Student-friendly features new to this edition include a wealth of leadership cases, videos and web-based content regularly updated, so that the book can be studied in the context of the most pressing contemporary leadership issues.

Leadership, as a way of focusing and motivating a group or organization to achieve its aims, is a much discussed but often misunderstood concept. This comprehensive textbook introduces the subject for Masters level students. Building on the success of the first edition, this text utilises an easy to follow, map-based approach to take the reader on a journey through the various fundamental dilemmas apparent within leadership studies, dilemmas such as: <ul>
<li>Is a leader born or made?</li> <li>How are tensions between ethical dilemmas and economic self-interest resolved?</li> <li>How does a leader's desire for control balance with the need to empower members of the organization?</li>
</ul>
Student-friendly features new to this edition include a wealth of leadership cases, videos and web-based content regularly updated, so that the book can be studied in the context of the most pressing contemporary leadership issues.

Creativity at Work

Gower Pub.Co.

Creativity and Problem Solving at Work

Creativity is not a rare talent. On the contrary, argues Tudor Rickards in this book, most people have the capacity to be creative but their potential is often untapped. Creativity at the workplace can be seen as a process of escaping from constraints, some of them self-imposed and some produced by an organizational climate unsympathetic to new thinking. Studies of exceptionally creative people reveal that they use a combination of experiment and review that Dr Rickards calls "creative analysis". He explains how the techniques of creative analysis can be applied to key areas of business, such as new product development and problem solving. The text is enlivened by case studies, cartoons, puzzles and visual material of all kinds that help to make the author's ideas easy to grasp and to use. "Creativity and Problem-Solving at Work" shows how the creativity that exists in all of us can be systematically developed and harnessed to solve problems and improve performance at both the personal and the organizational level.

Creativity and Problem Solving at Work (Gower Business Enterprise Series) (Gower Business Enterprise Series)

Gower Publishing

Every worthwhile organization strives continuously to improve. What the authors of this groundbreaking book offer is nothing less than a system for achieving peak performance. As a result of their work with more than 2000 teams, in some 40 countries across the globe, the authors identified the 7 factors that distinguish what they call ’dream teams’ and on that basis they developed the structured approach described in the Handbook. Part I sets out the principles that underlie team performance. Part II shows how to train teams to become more creative. Finally, in Part III, the authors demonstrate their ideas in action with real-life examples from a wide variety of organizational settings. They emphasize throughout the role of leadership in stimulating creativity and innovation, and they explain how to inject new dynamism into existing organizational systems and practices. Anyone involved in teamworking would profit from a close study of the Handbook. It will be especially valuable to team leaders and facilitators, to project managers and to HRD practitioners and consultants.

Handbook for Creative Team Leaders

Moger, Susan

Creativity and the Management of Change

This ground-breaking book provides an overview of key business topics for advanced students following a business studies course. In addition, it describes how readers can build a "platform of understanding" of conventional wisdom, and how to study that platform in order to discover new and potentially valuable ideas that depart from the supplied orthodox views.

Creativity and the Management of Change (Manchester Business and Management Series)

Economics

Wiley/Blackwell

This ground-breaking book provides an overview of key business topics for advanced students following a business studies course. In addition, it describes how readers can build a "platform of understanding" of conventional wisdom, and how to study that platform in order to discover new and potentially valuable ideas that depart from the supplied orthodox views.

Processes & Infrastructure

Blackwell Pub.

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Dilemmas of Leadership

Dilemmas of Leadership

Dilemmas of Leadership

Dilemmas of Leadership

Creativity at Work

Creativity and Problem Solving at Work

Creativity and Problem Solving at Work (Gower Business Enterprise Series) (Gower Business Enterprise Series)

Handbook for Creative Team Leaders

Creativity and the Management of Change (Manchester Business and Management Series)

Creativity and the Management of Change