The new ecology of leadership
Subtitle: business mastery in a chaotic world
By: David K. Hurst
Publisher: Columbia Business School Pub.
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9780231159708; 9780231504140
Subjects: Leadership; Management; Organizational change
Description: "After twenty-five years as an operating manager, often in crisis and in turnaround conditions, and having spent another two decades consulting, teaching, and writing, David K. Hurst has learned a great deal about organizations, how they function, and why they fail. Here, as a reflective practitioner, he crafts an extraordinary integration of management thought and practice. He adopts a systems perspective, using analogies drawn from nature, to illustrate his ideas and their practical application. This book is both for general readers unfamiliar with sophisticated management concepts and for active practitioners seeking to advance their management and leadership skills. The author's objective is to help readers make meaning from their own management experience and education and thus improve their practical judgment and wisdom - to ask better questions of reality and tell more compelling stories about it..."--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.