Strategic Leadership Development: Building World Class Performance

ISBN-13: 9781137415004 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 360 str.

Colin Carnell; Chris Roebuck

Opis

This book addresses the key issue of how organisations build and develop leadership capability, and examines how this ability is a key element in delivering organisational success. The books takes a decision-making approach and looks at how senior leaders come to make and implement decisions that maximise organizational performance.

Spis treści

1. Strategic leadership:a key to organisational success 2. Key themes in strategic leadership 3. Development of leadership theory 4. Can leadership be developed and if so how best to do it? 5. Leading for high performance 6. Leading change 7. The ethics of leadership 8. Politics, power and perception 9. Knowledge asa leadership resource 10. Systems for organisational leadership development 11. Leadership through 'changing minds'.

O autorze

Colin Carnall is a Partner and Director at Carnall Farrar Ltd and worked as Director of Executive Education at Henley Business School, Warwick Business School and Cass Business School, City University, UK. He continues to lead a number of customised Executive Development programmes as a Visiting Professor in the Practice of Leadership at Cass Business School and also through Carnall Farrar.

Chris Roebuck is a Visiting Professor for Transformational Leadership at Cass Business School, City University, UK. He was formerly Global Head of Leadership for UBS and worked with HSBC, KPMG, London Underground. He has been in the top 20 Most Influential HR Thinkers list since 2011 and has worked with organisations from the UK National Health Service, investment banks, the Myanmar Red Cross and the Chinese Space Programme.

Blurb

What is strategic leadership?

How can it be the key to organisational success?

Strategic Leadership Development addresses the key issues of how organisations build leadership capability. Focusing on the behavioural aspects of leadership, it looks at how both individuals and organisations can develop leadership talent, and how leaders can influence and shape the strategic direction of an organisation as a whole.

Key features:
• Combines academic rigour with real-world best practice
• Identifies how leaders manage strategic objectives, strategic alignment, strategy and risk
• A range of international case studies and examples help you to develop personal and practical leadership skills

This book is the ideal companion for undergraduate and postgraduate leadership students, as well as practitioners, researchers and scholars in the field.