Leadership

Businesses must stay agile and be responsive to the complexities and disruptions brought about by digital transformation. The recent pandemic has also accelerated business digitization. Packed with insights and strategies, this book breaks down the...

To many people, the words 'leader' and 'humble' are not natural bedfellows. Yet once they have grasped the definition most employees desire a humble leader, while a majority of managers believe they already are one. What appears deceptively simple is...

In this thoroughly updated new edition of his ground-breaking and award-winning book, Dennis Gentilin draws on both his personal experience as a well-known whistleblower and recent events in the Australian financial services industry to provide insights...

Progressive Leadership addresses the diminishing and increasingly dysfunctional contribution of firm leadership in the operational effectiveness, performance, and survival of the firm in the business context of the twenty-first century. Leadership has...

The ebook edition of this title is Open Access and freely available to read online. Women more often than men take care of their ageing relatives together with their own children or grandchildren. These Sandwich Generation (SG) women constitute an...

This book presents multidisciplinary perspectives on opportunities and best practices necessary for empowering women in the digital economy in developing countries. The book explores the components of connectivity that matter most to women. It also helps...

Near the end of the 20th Century, the leadership concept has radically evolved from the traditional concept of accomplishing work through others. Unfortunately, too many professionals unconsciously have faulty traditional assumptions that can get them,...

This book attempted to analyze the issues raised by the chronicity of the Covid pandemic and its governance. The author analyses, the information resources mobilized to combat the pandemic in industrialized countries and pays particular attention to the...

Why do some leaders succeed and others fail? Is there a magic ingredient leaders must consider on their career journey to ensure the joy ride does not turn into a nightmare? What is the key to leaders maximizing success that is sustainable long-term? ...

Amid COVID-19, George Floyd, #MeToo, and the rising tide of political anger in our country, Americans feel more hungry for change than ever before. Simultaneously, the pandemic and its disruption of "normal" life have made us realize that we...

Amid COVID-19, George Floyd, #MeToo, and the rising tide of political anger in our country, Americans feel more hungry for change than ever before. Simultaneously, the pandemic and its disruption of "normal" life have made us realize that we...

Leadership has gone through a lot of changes in the last couple of decades. We have come to realize that great leadership is not about being authoritarian and exercising control. That it is not about the Intelligent Quotient (IQ) but the Emotional...

Why do some leaders succeed and others fail? Is there a magic ingredient leaders must consider on their career journey to ensure the joy ride does not turn into a nightmare? What is the key to leaders maximizing success that is sustainable long-term? ...

Far away in the jungle of Africa every morning a deer wakes up and decides to run faster than the fastest lion in that jungle. In the same jungle every morning a lion wakes up and decides to run faster than the fattest deer in that jungle. Both the deer...

This book offers an accessible reference and roadmap for the practical application of cross-cultural competence (3C) for leaders dedicated to leading with diversity, inclusion and personal development in mind. Developing Cross-Cultural Competence for...

The COVID pandemic reminded us that despite our best attempts at predicting the future, we are often caught off guard, surprised when it arrives. We can only guess at the impact of such changes as artificial intelligence, virtual reality, 3-D printing,...

Company democracy is often misunderstood in the business context as democracy is normally related to politics. In this book, the authors present a different dimension in which they focus first on employees and their work context and then give them new...

Coaching is a necessary skill for managers. It is important as a fundamental part of an organization's talent efforts-including talent acquisition, development and retention strategies. For a coaching program to succeed in an organization, it should be...

Providing essential guidance on how to survive and develop as an academic leader to achieve results and avoid common pitfalls, this highly practical and accessible book communicates the importance of learning to build trust and meaningful relationships...

Across organisations and communities there are leaders who manage to get things done through their ability to understand how a network of individuals connect, who to talk to and how to bring people together in the right constellation of effort. These are...

Stuck: How to WIN in Business By Understating LOSS addresses a critical concept that closes a gap in popular business publications. Many books tell leaders and managers the process of how to change their organizations. However, many of these books lack a...

In "Finding your Granite" Executive Leadership Coach Douglas Pflug walks you through some of the life experiences, lessons and key take-ways from his 28 years as a police officer and leader. Douglas accomplishes this through four very dynamic,...

Corporate Governance and Ethics is an illuminating and practical reading of Aristotle's Politics for today's corporate directors. With a deft synthesis of ethics, economics and politics, Alejo Sison elevates the discussion of corporate governance out of...

This innovative book explores the universal and cultural foundations that underlie the dynamics of leadership. It asks key questions such as: why are we attracted to leaders? Why do we perceive certain leaders as charismatic? And why do some leaders who...

Much has been written about how leaders and teams function in traditional business settings, but there is comparatively scant literature on the behaviors of leaders and teams facing extreme situations: that is, situations that fall outside the scope of...

Integrating Business Management Processes: Volume 2: Support and Assurance Processes (978-0-367-48548-1) Shelving Guide: Business & Management The backbone of any organisation is its management system. It must reflect the needs of the...

As a leadership consultant, author BH Tan has spent the last few decades working alongside leaders around the world. Many flounder when faced with tough judgment calls. But there are those who learn and emerge wiser than before. What accounts for this...

Integrating Business Management Processes: Management and Core Processes (978-0-367-48549-8, 365816) Shelving Guide: Business & Management The backbone of any organisation is its management system. It must reflect the needs of the organisation...

Turbulence is not new to the business world. In fact, turbulence is increasing and managers are seeing teams spinning their wheels. Management systems are in a state of crisis and operations are more complex. The old top-down operations mode no longer...

Turbulence is not new to the business world. In fact, turbulence is increasing and managers are seeing teams spinning their wheels. Management systems are in a state of crisis and operations are more complex. The old top-down operations mode no longer...

Why do some departments, divisions, and organizations soar while others struggle? Watching another team achieve the success you feel yours more rightfully deserves can be incredibly frustrating. However, they might have something you don’t:...

Deepening The Leadership Journey is a compendium of topical (and in some cases imponderable) situations for which leadership is either applicable or in need. This new book uses the nine elements in application to five challenges facing the current...

A must-read for serious leadership studies scholars, Rethinking Leadership offers a radical reconceptualisation of leadership as a contextually embedded, physically embodied phenomenon. The book arrives at original and surprising answers to perennial...

Taking a close look at how digital media can elevate or diminish a leader's influence, this book provides a framework to guide organizational leaders' selection and application of digital tools in communication with stakeholders. Through a media...

Taking a close look at how digital media can elevate or diminish a leader's influence, this book provides a framework to guide organizational leaders' selection and application of digital tools in communication with stakeholders. Through a media...

There's an epidemic of leadership failure-whether something as small as a meeting, or as large as implementing enterprise wide change. Leaders know that sinking feeling when a gap emerges between themselves and the groups they most need to engage with...

Imagine that you are a corporate executive or small business owner in a midwestern city under water after weeks of extreme weather and drenching rainfall. Infrastructure has been damaged beyond repair, transportation arteries are closed, and your supply...

Authority and Power in Social Interaction explores methods of analyzing authority and power in the minutiae of interaction. Drawing on the expertise of a diverse international team of organizational communication and language and social interaction...

To create deep change you have to disturb people, or at least risk doing so. Shaking people out of their comfort zones not only generates the possibility of change but also elicits new information and brings out hidden resources that people need to...

Drawing its origins from Human Relations movement of the early 20th century and from public leadership orientations emphasizing human aspects, human-centred public leadership approaches leadership from a systems perspective. It explores societal...