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The authors present a new approach to leadership based on findings from complexity science. Integrating real case studies with rigorous research results, they explore the biggest challenges being faced in fast-paced organizations, and provide a host of concrete tools for leading during critical periods.
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"This wonderfully useful bookintegrates the best thinking in the fields of complexity science, leadership, and innovation. The result is a useful and practical guide to using key complexity concepts to understand and enactleadership in a way thatfacilitates continuous innovation." - Ellen Van Velsor, Senior Fellow, Center for Creative Leadership
"For the lifelong student and (hopefully successful) practitioner of leadership, the authors greatly enriched my understanding of leadership and break new, exciting ground. For the engineer and technologist, they give me comfort that there is real science underpinning the art of leadership. They provide broad shoulders for others to stand on." - Reed Harrison, CEO, Antietam Strategy Partners, Inc.
"The authors have stepped out of conventional management studies to synthesize ideas from the sciences of ecology and mathematics to articulate a new view of management and complexity. This is a well-timed analysis of how leaders can leverage networks, not in a superficial manner, but in concrete terms, to increase the velocity of innovation in their organizations." - Dan Keoppel, Executive Director, Strategic Investments, Verizon Communications
"In this scholarly treatise the authors create a compelling argument that there is a new science of leadership. This book is for the serious reader who believes that you can apply generative leadership to your organization and win. Use your time well and read this book!" - Phil Harkins, CEO, Linkage, Inc.
About the authors
JEFFREY GOLDSTEIN Ph.D., is Full Professor in the School of Business, Adelphi University, Garden City, New York, USA.
JAMES K. HAZY is Founder and CEO of Leadership Science, LLC.
BENYAMIN B. LICHTENSTEIN is Assistant Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA.
JAMES K. HAZY is Founder and CEO of Leadership Science, LLC.
BENYAMIN B. LICHTENSTEIN is Assistant Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Complexity and the Nexus of Leadership
Book Subtitle: Leveraging Nonlinear Science to Create Ecologies of Innovation
Authors: Jeffrey Goldstein, James K. Hazy, Benyamin B. Lichtenstein
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230107717
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Business & Management Collection, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-62227-2Published: 21 July 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-230-62228-9Published: 09 May 2011
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-10771-7Published: 07 June 2010
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 213
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations
Topics: Business Strategy/Leadership, Management, Human Resource Management