Rational leadership : developing and redeveloping corporations /
"This sixteen-chapter book is a second, much expanded edition of Rational Leadership: Developing Iconic Corporations. The new edition, subtitled Developing and Redeveloping Corporations, looks at the redeveloping as well as developing of corporations by rational leaders. Rational leadership ins...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
2023.
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | "This sixteen-chapter book is a second, much expanded edition of Rational Leadership: Developing Iconic Corporations. The new edition, subtitled Developing and Redeveloping Corporations, looks at the redeveloping as well as developing of corporations by rational leaders. Rational leadership inspires confidence by capably using appropriate rational means, and the book highlights two important versions of rational leadership: where a rational leader is either developing or redeveloping a business corporation. The Part I chapters present seven cases of rational leaders who have developed iconic corporations. These best-practice leaders include Sam Walton of Walmart, Meg Whitman of eBay, and Jeff Bezos of Amazon. In all seven cases, the leaders used appropriate adaptive, calculative, and deliberative rational methods to develop their corporations. In Part II, the focus shifts from development to redevelopment. The Part II chapters present five classic cases of rational leaders redeveloping--remedially renewing--problematic corporations. The leaders include Lou Gerstner of IBM and Steve Jobs of Apple. In all five cases the leaders used appropriate organizational tools, which transformed, reoriented, or hybridized the corporation. Both Parts I and II also present supplementary cases of other rational leaders developing or redeveloping a corporation. These leaders include Sheryl Sandberg, Marcel Dassault, Giorgio Armani, Anita Roddick, Satya Nadella, Carly Fiorina, Marissa Mayer, and Jack Welch. In total there are more than twenty supplementary or main cases of rational leadership. Most of these case studies are based on a leader's memoir and leader's-eye view, validated and expanded by additional biographical and historical sources"--Publisher's description. |
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| Item Description: | This edition also issued in print: 2023. Previous edition: 2018. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 487 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191997792 019199779X 9780198894650 0198894651 |