Frohman / Howard Leadership the Hard Way

Why Leadership Can't Be Taught and How You Can Learn It Anyway
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-26768-4
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 160 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: J-B Warren Bennis Series

Leadership the Hard Way presents a method of living andworking that can truly facilitate the learning of leadership. Theirmethod shows how to go against the current, fight conventionalwisdom, and embrace the unexpected. It is about trusting oneselfand valuing intuition, principles, and imagination as much as hardskills and analysis. Frohman combines his counterintuitive ideaswith experiences from his own background?from escaping the Nazis asa child to becoming a leading innovator in the semiconductorindustry?to show how readers can build their own leadershipabilities. A leader?s values and personality, he ultimatelyreveals, are the only sure source of stability in a world ofcontinuous change.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Frohman, Dov

Howard, Robert

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword.
Introduction: Flying Through a Thunderstorm.
1. Insisting on Survival.
2. Leading Against the Current.
3. Leveraging Random Opportunities.
4. Leadership Under Fire.
5. The Soft Skills of Hard Leadership.
6. Making Values Real.
7. Bootstrapping Leadership.
Epilogue: Knowing When to Let Go.
Notes.
Acknowledgments.
The Authors.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

--John Seely Brown, former chief scientist, Xerox Corporation and former director, Xerox PARC; coauthor, The Social Life of Information and The Only Sustainable Edge
Dov Frohman, a pioneer of the global corporation, is the founder and former general manager of Intel Israel and widely respected as a leader and innovator in the worldwide semiconductor industry.
Robert Howard is a former senior editor of the Harvard Business Review. A veteran writer on work, technology, and management, he is the author of Brave New Workplace and the editor of The Learning Imperative: Managing People for Continuous Innovation.