High Performance Leadership

Leaders who inspire and deliver
Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-9544390-0-2
Verlag: Thorogood Publishing, London

Buch, Englisch

A specially commissioned report published by CRF Publishing in association with Thorogood A new source of independent analysis and expertise tackles these tough questions. High Performance Leadership is a major new report combining solid research, case studies and contributions from expert thinkers. this 234 page report analyses contemporary leadership for success, failure and derailment. It examines what leaders and leadership enablers - HR/OD directors/VPs who have to plan, deploy or build leadership - must do. And it makes challenging recommendations. Leading Thinkers who have Contributed to this Report - Kunal Basu, co-director, Advanced Management Programme, Templeton College - John Beeson, principal, Beeson Consulting and author of Developing Business Leaders for 2010 - William Bridges, author and principal, William Bridges and Associates - Jim Collins, author, Good to Great - John Fleenor, director of knowledge management, Center for Creative Leadership, and colleagues - William H Fonvielle, CEO, Performance Measurement Associates - Ronald Heifetz, co-founder, the Center for Public Leadership, Harvard University, and principal, Cambridge Leadership Associates - Andrew Kakabadse, professor of international management development, Cranfield School of Management - James Kouzes, author and lecturer, The Leadership Challenge, and chairman emeritus, Tom Peters Company - James O'Toole, research professor, Centre for Effective Organisations - Hubert St Onge, CEO, Konverge and Know - James Walker, partner, The Walker Group '.combines understanding with practical suggestions. If you are hunting for just one, all-encompassing source to guide you towards achieving leadership capability, I heartily commend this report. Also, I have to say, it's a damn good read.' Andrew Kakabadse, Professor of International Management Development, Cranfield School of Management

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensführung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Section One: The Leadership Crucible - Leadership contexts - The personal dimension - What leaders think - Leadership challenges - Leadership under scrutiny - Implications for leaders and HR - Case study: Credit Suisse First Boston Section Two: What Differentiates Success and Failure? - The leadershiphigh wire - How leaders derail - Leader and leadership failure - Successful lea