Changes in technology, customer demands, competition, and the social character challenge organizations to innovate and change. How they change depends on their leaders, and their knowledge, and philosophy. To create a better future for organizations and to improve the wellbeing of customers, collaborators and communities, leaders need to be strategic thinkers. This book describes the qualities of strategic intelligence and provides the conceptual tools that equip leaders to improve and transform organizations in the age of knowledge work. These qualities include foresight, visioning, partnering both within and outside the organization, and engaging and motivating collaborators. To develop these qualities, it is necessary to articulate a leadership philosophy and to gain knowledge of systems, variation, personality psychology, and the theory of knowledge. This book uniquely integrates leadership, personality and organization. Michael Maccoby has almost unparalleled experience of working with organizations in a wide variety of contexts. He draws his insights from several disciplines - organization theory, psychoanalysis, anthropology; and from working with distinguished and pioneer thinkers. These include the psychoanalyst Erich Fromm; the systems theorist Russell Ackoff; and management pioneer W. Edwards Deming. A major challenge for leadership today is the transformation of traditional bureaucracies into learning organizations. It can't be done by following formulas or roadmaps. Leaders need the qualities and conceptual tools of strategic intelligence and this book shows them what they must do and provides exercises to develop them.
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Michael Maccoby is a globally recognised expert in leadership. Drawing on his experience and multi-disciplinary understanding, in this book he explains the concept of Strategic Intellegence, and the tools that equip leaders to improve and transform organizations.
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1. Introduction: Learning from Practice ; 2. Strategic Intelligence ; 3. Leadership for Change ; 4. Leadership Philosophy- An Essential Tool for Change ; 5. Visioning Change ; 6. Understanding the Personalities of Leaders, Followers, and Collaborators ; 7. Smart Motivation for Change ; 8. Dialogues with Deming ; 9. Building on the Work of Ackoff, Deming and Fromm ; Appendix: Developing Strategic Intelligence for Leading Change
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Beautifully written, rich in ideas, and thought-provoking.
Equips leaders, consultants, and students with new conceptual tools for understanding and motivating change Describes elements of personality which aids understanding of partners and collaborators Develops the idea of 'Strategic Intelligence' Describes different types of leadership Provides tools for adaptation and change
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Michael Maccoby is a globally recognized expert on leadership who has advised, taught, and studied leaders of companies, unions, governments, healthcare organizations, and universities in 36 countries. He directed a research program at Harvard on Technology, Work, and Character from 1970-1990. He has taught at a number of universities including Oxford's Saïd Business School. For his work in Sweden, he was made Commander of the Royal Order of the Polar Star in 2008. He has a BA and a PhD from Harvard in psychology and anthropology, he studied philosophy as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at New College Oxford, and is a graduate of the Mexican Institute of Psychoanalysis.
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Equips leaders, consultants, and students with new conceptual tools for understanding and motivating change Describes elements of personality which aids understanding of partners and collaborators Develops the idea of 'Strategic Intelligence' Describes different types of leadership Provides tools for adaptation and change
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ISBN
9780199682386
Publisert
2015
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
464 gr
Høyde
236 mm
Bredde
162 mm
Dybde
19 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
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Product format
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Antall sider
208

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Biographical note

Michael Maccoby is a globally recognized expert on leadership who has advised, taught, and studied leaders of companies, unions, governments, healthcare organizations, and universities in 36 countries. He directed a research program at Harvard on Technology, Work, and Character from 1970-1990. He has taught at a number of universities including Oxford's Saïd Business School. For his work in Sweden, he was made Commander of the Royal Order of the Polar Star in 2008. He has a BA and a PhD from Harvard in psychology and anthropology, he studied philosophy as a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at New College Oxford, and is a graduate of the Mexican Institute of Psychoanalysis.