Business feel
Subtitle: leading paradigm shifts in organisations
By: Steven Segal, Macquarie Graduate School of Management, Australia
Edition: 2nd Edition.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781137429698
Subjects: Industrial management; Leadership
Description: In current contexts one can be a literary scholar and yet be working on objects other than poems, dramas or fiction. Something has happened to both the researchers and the discipline that has transformed this humanities domain, bringing it into a sharper focus to investigate the readability of contemporary social issues. The essays in this book, written by scholars from ten countries, range across this research domain, renamed 'literary-and-cultural studies', or LCS. LCS depends on four key concepts -- textuality, fictionality, rhetoricity and historicity -- which characterize both the material and the methods of their research. The 16 essays look at four broad fields: cultural memory; migration and translation; electronic textuality; and biopolitics, biosociality and the body. The aim of the collection is to deploy and enhance cultural literacy, a way of looking at social and cultural issues - especially issues of change and mobility - through the lens of literary thinking.
Table of contents: title: Preface : leading, following, organizing while changing; title: Acknowledgements; title: Introduction: business feel and leadership philosophy; title: Leaders as philosophers; title: Models for questioning while leading; title: Why philosophy in leadership studies?; title: Leadership philosophy in the context of the tradition of philosophy; title: Authenticity in the philosophies of Jack Welch and Martin Heidegger; title: The role of frustration in developing leadership vision; title: From intuition through doubt to vision in Jack Welch and Martin Heidegger; title: Fear and existential anxiety as the basis of vision at intel; title: The practical basis for developing a philosophy of leadership; title: Stress as the basis for leadership philosophy; title: Philosophical journeys of leaders.