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New faces of leadership / Amanda Sinclair and Valerie Wilson.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Carlton South, Vic. : Melbourne University Press, 2002Description: viii, 137 pages ; 22 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0522850359
  • 9780522850352
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 658.4092 21
LOC classification:
  • HD57.7 .S5485 2002
Contents:
Acknowledgments -- 1. Changing Faces of Leadership: new tasks, new contexts, new faces -- 2. The Roots of Leadership: childhood and the origins of alternative leadership styles -- 3. The Routes to Leadership: the insiders, the outsiders, multiple pathways -- 4. Capabilities and Strategies: linking the personal to the organisational -- 5. Ambivalence about Difference: displaying or downplaying? -- 6. The Context for Leadership -- 7. Ways of Leading in the New Corporate World -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index.
Review: "Old models of tough, out-front leadership have less and less relevance in today's dynamic and international business environment. In New Faces of Leadership, Amanda Sinclair and Valerie Wilson investigate the more open and flexible forms that future leadership will take.They explore the experiences of thirty of Australia's business leaders, all with successful careers in large corporations--and their approach is unusual. By drawing out the backgrounds of these men and women, the authors show how personal experience helps forge an openness to difference. The childhood stories of these leaders are fascinating. They establish that early experiences in crossing borders--physical, cultural, linguistic, socio-economic and emotional borders--are a key ingredient for successful leadership in today's world. In the stories of those from immigrant backgrounds, it is not surprising to find discrimination and a strong sense of needing to camouflage difference. But peeling back the layers reveals that those with more conventional lives have also been shaped by a variety of border-crossing experiences.New Faces of Leadership is full of unexpected insights. It pinpoints the ambivalence many leaders feel about advocating for difference in business contexts. Yet it predicts that successful future leaders will be people who, having harnessed their own experiences of difference, are able to bring openness, flexibility and courage to their leadership." -- BOOK JACKET.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 127-133) and index.

Acknowledgments -- 1. Changing Faces of Leadership: new tasks, new contexts, new faces -- 2. The Roots of Leadership: childhood and the origins of alternative leadership styles -- 3. The Routes to Leadership: the insiders, the outsiders, multiple pathways -- 4. Capabilities and Strategies: linking the personal to the organisational -- 5. Ambivalence about Difference: displaying or downplaying? -- 6. The Context for Leadership -- 7. Ways of Leading in the New Corporate World -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index.

"Old models of tough, out-front leadership have less and less relevance in today's dynamic and international business environment. In New Faces of Leadership, Amanda Sinclair and Valerie Wilson investigate the more open and flexible forms that future leadership will take.They explore the experiences of thirty of Australia's business leaders, all with successful careers in large corporations--and their approach is unusual. By drawing out the backgrounds of these men and women, the authors show how personal experience helps forge an openness to difference. The childhood stories of these leaders are fascinating. They establish that early experiences in crossing borders--physical, cultural, linguistic, socio-economic and emotional borders--are a key ingredient for successful leadership in today's world. In the stories of those from immigrant backgrounds, it is not surprising to find discrimination and a strong sense of needing to camouflage difference. But peeling back the layers reveals that those with more conventional lives have also been shaped by a variety of border-crossing experiences.New Faces of Leadership is full of unexpected insights. It pinpoints the ambivalence many leaders feel about advocating for difference in business contexts. Yet it predicts that successful future leaders will be people who, having harnessed their own experiences of difference, are able to bring openness, flexibility and courage to their leadership." -- BOOK JACKET.

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