ABSTRACT

Drawing on the complexity sciences and personal narrative accounts of experience from practitioners based in the UK, Germany, Denmark and North America, this book examines conventional leadership development methodologies with a view to identifying what is useful and what is not. It proffers an alternative perspective on leadership and organisation for business schools, consultancies and corporate training functions to adopt in their development of leaders.

Leadership Development: A Complexity Approach is essential reading for advanced students and researchers of leadership development, leadership studies, human resource management and organisational development. It will also be of interest to management educators and practising managers whose experience of, or aspirations for, working life are not represented in mainstream academic texts and popular management literature.

chapter |14 pages

Introduction

chapter 2|23 pages

Rethinking leadership

chapter 3|26 pages

Rethinking leadership development

chapter 4|25 pages

Coaching, psychometrics and 360° feedback

chapter 5|21 pages

Forum theatre

chapter 6|23 pages

Experiential exercises

chapter 7|25 pages

Action Learning Sets

chapter 8|7 pages

No recipes, just rules of thumb