- Paperback: 176 pages
- Publisher: iUniverse (April 2004)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0595315518
- ISBN-13: 978-0595315512
- Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 15.9 x 1.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 268 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #958,516 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Managing Leadership is an essential guide to understanding what organizational leadership really is and how to harness it to the service of today's organizations.
Author Jim Stroup brings to the topic of organizational leadership over 30 years of experience as a student of and participant in leadership in military, civilian, and governmental organizations around the world. In a compellingly drawn argument, Stroup provides a clear and actionable solution to the leadership crisis facing the owners, directors, and managers of contemporary organizations.
Learn why today's concept of individual leadership has to be scrapped:
§ It places on "leaders" untenable burdens that irresistibly lead to isolation, loss of direction--and disloyalty.
§ It represents the surrender of our organizations, their owners and stakeholders to the "leaders" and their "vision".
§ Managers must regain control of today's organizations in all fields.
Discover how to:
§ Properly understand what leadership in an organization really is.
§ Manage leadership as a resource like any other in the organization.
§ Guide today's organizations out of the individual leadership crisis and into the intelligent management of leadership.
Managing Leadership will show owners and managers how to take back control of their organizations and direct them with effective, no-nonsense managerial integrity.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
A revolutionary dose of - common sense,
By A Customer
This review is from: Managing Leadership: Toward a New and Usable Understanding of What Leadership Really Is--And How to Manage It (Paperback)
Managing Leadership provides a commensense approach to leadership. It explains how the job of leadership is too big for one person, and how it is actually the senior person's job to manage the leadership that is already a part of the organization. The book provides an eye-opening examination of what leadership and management really are, and should be a big relief to over-burdened and stressed-out executives, and to disappointed boards and shareholders. Managing Leadership shows how to get everyone involved with the organization back on the road to sensible, effective, intellegent management that, quite simply, does the job.
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A refreshing new view of leadership in organizations.,
By A Customer
This review is from: Managing Leadership: Toward a New and Usable Understanding of What Leadership Really Is--And How to Manage It (Paperback)
Managing Leadership proposes a view of leadership in organizations that is refreshingly different than what is currently promoted by the modern leadership movement. The argument is that leadership is an inherent feature of organizations - a natural element that can be managed like any other organizational asset. A must read for anyone serious about managing organizations. It will help relieve you of the inappropriate and unsustainable burdens of personal leadership in an organizational setting, and unleash your managerial talents in newly productive ways.
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A refreshing new view of leadership in organizations.,
By A Customer
This review is from: Managing Leadership: Toward a New and Usable Understanding of What Leadership Really Is--And How to Manage It (Paperback)
You will never think the same of organizational leadership, after reading this book. Managing Leadership provides a revolutionary new view of what leadership in organizations really is, and how you can manage it effectively and intelligently, like any other organizational asset. The book begins with a frank discussion of the history of the current leadership movement and its parallels with the ever-widening scandals enfolding the corporate and civil organizational environment, today. It provides a compelling case for the complicity of the untenable demands of the modern leadership movement in the occurrence of these scandals. It then surveys the literature, showcasing examples of more accurate and astute thinking that have, unfortunately, failed to receive adequate attention. The heart of Managing Leadership is a carefully developed argument for the concept of organizational leadership as a naturally occurring phenomenon inherent to all organizations. Using examples from military and business, the case for this view is carefully and vividly presented. Finally, the main part of the book culminates in a chapter discussing methods for executives to manage the leadership inherent in their organizations. In an especially interesting innovation, the concluding section of the book opens with a unique chapter which contains vigorously presented arguments against the thesis of the book. The author recognizes that the view of organizational leadership presented in this book will certainly attract criticism. His goal in this chapter is to present some of these criticisms, and then to answer them. The author even invites additional critiques from readers, for possible inclusion in future editions of the book. Managing Leadership proposes that the debate over what leadership in organizations really is needs to be reopened, and begins the debate with an important contribution of its own. The argument is that leadership is not properly viewed as an individual characteristic to be exhibited primarily by the senior executive, but one inherent to the organization, naturally expressed by all of its members, and managed by that senior executive. This view of leadership provides many benefits to the organization: 1) it unleashes the leadership seeking expression from within the organization in beneficial ways, 2) it frees senior executives from the extraordinary and untenable demands made of them by the modern leadership movement, and 3) it enables them to return to their principle duty of managing the organization - including the leadership inherent to it. Every serious manager - in all fields - must read this book. (And a great gift for your boss.)
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