Leadership Express (Express Exec)

123 Pages·2002·1.14 MB·English

by  Tony Kippenberger

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(cid:2)Fast track route to understanding leaders and leadership
(cid:2)Covers the key areas of leadership, from transformational,
charismatic and adaptive leadership to co-leadership and a new
emphasis on great low-profile leaders
(cid:2)Examples and lessons from some of the world’s most successful
leaders, including Jack Welch, Akio Morita and Archie Norman,
and ideas from the smartest thinkers, including Warren Bennis,
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Leadership
Express
Tony Kippenberger
(cid:2)Fast track route to understanding leaders and leadership
(cid:2)Covers the key areas of leadership, from transformational,
charismatic and adaptive leadership to co-leadership and a
new emphasis on great low-profile leaders
(cid:2)Examples and lessons from some of the world’s most
successful leaders, including Jack Welch, Akio Morita
and Archie Norman, and ideas from the smartest thinkers,
including Warren Bennis, Manfred Kets de Vries, Charles
Hampden-Turner and Fons Trompenaars, Henry Mintzberg
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resources guide
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Introduction to
ExpressExec
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compiled into 10 modules. Each module contains 10 individual titles
formingacomprehensiveresourceofcurrentbusinesspracticewritten
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Contents
IntroductiontoExpressExec v
08.01.01 IntroductiontoLeadership 1
08.01.02 WhatisLeadership? 5
08.01.03 TheEvolutionofLeadershipThinking 13
08.01.04 TheE-Dimension 23
08.01.05 TheGlobalDimension 33
08.01.06 TheStateoftheLeadershipDebate 45
08.01.07 InPractice–LeadershipSuccessStories 61
08.01.08 KeyConceptsandThinkers 81
08.01.09 Resources 93
08.01.10 TenStepstoMakingLeadershipWork 103
FrequentlyAskedQuestions(FAQs) 113
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Introduction to
Leadership
Does leadership matter? How much difference does it really make?
Chapter1explains:
» whyithasbeenimportanttohumankindthroughtheages;and
» the big difference it can make to organizational success or failure
(withtwoexamples).
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‘‘Leadershipisoften...thesinglemostcriticalfactorinthesuccess
orfailureofinstitutions.’’
BernardBass,USacademicandpsychologist
Leadershiphasbeenwithussinceourdistantforebears,thenomadic
hunter-gatherers,whensurvivaldependedonsomeone’sabilitytolead
successful hunting expeditions or guide their wandering cluster of
families from one dependable food source to another. Leadership, it
seems,ispartofthehumancondition.Asasocialanimal,mankindis
mostcomfortableingroupsandwheretherearegroupstherearethose
thattakealeadandthosethatarepreparedtofollow.
And so it has been down the ages. From wandering groups to
migrating tribes, from hunters to farmers, from settlements to cities,
fromcity-statestonationsandempires,thedifferencebetweenlifeand
death,oratleastbetweensurvivingorthriving,hasdepended–especi-
allyatcriticalmoments–onsuccessfulleadership.
In the process, leadership has taken many forms–military, civic,
and religious. And the emergence of leaders has occurred in many
differentways–throughdemocracyorbyself-selection,byacclaimor
byheredity,bymysticalappointmentorthroughtheseizureofpower.
In the business context, leadership comes in many forms–from
the entrepreneur who starts up a business from scratch and leads it
throughitsearly,criticalyears,totheleaderofalong-establishedfirm
who opens up new ways for future growth or development.Leaders
andpotentialleadersexistatalllevelsofanorganization,butnowhere
are the qualities of leadership more critical than in the person at the
helmoftheenterprise.
So it should come as no great surprise that as the business world
hasbecomemoreintenselycompetitive,asthecomplexitiesofglobal
markets have become apparent, and as yesterday’s certainties have
becometomorrow’sunknowns,thedemandfor–andinterestin–top
levelleadershiphasgrowndramatically.
While this has brought with it all sorts of hype, there can be little
doubt that any corporate leader can be a powerful force for either
good or ill. And nowhere can this–and therefore the importance of
leadership–bebetterillustratedthanbytheextraordinaryironyinthe
contrastingfatesoftwolong-establishedindustrialgiantswhichcame
toaheadinSeptember,2001.