Book Summaries: Leadership
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By Ivan Yardley, Andrew Kakabadse, Derrick Neal | 28/09/2012
The global economy is becoming an increasingly turbulent world; this changing context is placing new demands on organisational thinking. This book examines how similar demands have been met by the British military and how these solutions could be utilised by a wider community of practitioners.
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By Cranfield Faculty | 29/06/2012
The challenge for business schools and business itself is to establish a new maxim - the business of business is sustainable business. Business schools have a special contribution to make in developing globally responsible, critical and independent thinking future leaders and managers. This book aims to provide a roadmap both for business students - the leaders of tomorrow - and for existing and engaged leaders who need support, coaching and counselling to address the challenges of the sustainab
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By Andrew Kakabadse & Nada Kakabadse | 08/05/2012
Exploring the nature, configuration and influence of global Elites, this book examines the impact of Elites on transnational policy development and strategically on corporations as board members of PLCs and international joint ventures (IJVs).
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By Andrew Kakabadse, Mohammad Omar Abdulla, Rabih Abouchakra, Ali Jawad | 01/03/2011
Leading Smart Transformation: A Roadmap for World-Class Government offers a guide to achieving sustainable smart reform of a country’s policy-making apparatus and public sector.
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By Andrew Kakabadse and Nada Kakabadse | 02/04/2010
Rice Wine With The Minister provides a practical research-based guide to the realities of leading in a truly global business arena.
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By Donna Ladkin | 01/03/2010
Challenges long-held assumptions about leadership through discussing a series of penetrating questions. For example the book shifts the ground from asking the age old What is leadership? to the much more pertinent What is leadership for?
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By Andrew Kakabadse and Geoff Sheard | 11/09/2009
A practical guide which provides insights for team leadership in the modern world, drawn from many years of working with leadership teams in business and organisations across many sectors
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By Kim Turnbull James and James Collins | 03/10/2008
Examines how current thinking is being applied in the design and implementation of leadership development initiatives. From multiple perspectives, aims to answer how leaders learn about leadership, and what new ideas are emerging from the cutting edge of leadership practice that point the way toward future leadership development.
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By Andrew Kakabadse, Nada Kakabadse & Linda Lee-Davis | 05/09/2008
A great leader must have a number of capabilities or ‘sides’ available to them to be able to contend most appropriately with any situation they face. The authors describe the seven ‘sides’ of great leaders, which must be selected and applied to fit the context.
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By Kim Turnbull James and James Collins | 01/05/2008
This book examines the linkages between leadership thinking - the development of ideas by those who research the subject - and the practice of leadership in organisations. It explores the balance between finding out what leadership is, and generating prescriptions about what leadership should be. This book identifies emergent themes in leadership thinking.
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By Keith Grint | 07/12/2007
D-Day, on 6th June 1944, was arguably the largest, most complex and most hazardous undertaking in military history. This book uses the experience of leaders on both sides and at all levels in the preparation and execution of D-Day to explore - through their successes and failures - the nature of the relationship between strategy formulation and implementation, between leadership and followership, and way decisions and choices were both perceived and executed by leaders.
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By Andrew Kakabadse and Nada Kakabadse | 23/11/2007
This book picks up the running debate on corporate governance and the responsibilities of board members, and explores the different roles and management styles practised by senior board figures around the world. It asks the fundamental question: Who should lead what, and when, and how? and offers answers taken from in-depth interviews with some of the world’s leading corporate chairmen, and from extensive worldwide research into the mechanics of board functioning.
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By David Buchanan and A Huczynski | 01/01/2007
Become familiar with the authoritative textbook on organizational behaviour. Comprehensive and easily accessible for the practising leader, this lively book selects challenging organizational themes and addresses relevant questions for today’s leaders.
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By Cliff Bowman, Andrew Kakabadse and Keith Ward | 14/11/2006
For those experienced in leadership strategy, this book adds new insights in suggesting ways to harness organisational energies to achieve stretching performance targets. For new managers, it provides a benchmark model of success.
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By David J Wilkinson | 24/08/2006
David Wilkinson explores the broader role of uncertainty and ambiguity in organisational effectiveness and identifies the opportunities that can emerge for organisations when ambiguity is treated as an essential element in the business environment rather than an unwanted evil, an element that can be productively exploited by the right kind of leader.
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By Keith Grint | 28/02/2005
Be challenged in your perceptions of leadership by an original thinker. Case studies from Spartacus to al-Qaida, from business to education. Takes four of the most popular approaches and provides a wide range of case studies to illustrate these fresh perspectives.
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By Sue Vinnicombe and John Bank | 31/10/2002
How can you be successful as a woman leader? Interviews with women leaders that draw out, through inspiring portraits, what success looks like and how to get there.
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By Keith Grint | 31/05/2001
Are leaders born or are they made? Are we all potential leaders? Are there timeless patterns of leadership? Examines the notion of leadership as an array of ‘arts’ in a series of leadership portraits.
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By Andrew Kakabadse & Nada Kakabadse | 01/08/1999
This book tackles every aspect of leadership technique and philosophy and looks at best practice as exhibited by international business leaders. Shows the importance of understanding the context in which you, as a leader, are operating.
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