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There are various issues and considerations existing in the leadership literature as the core of the criticism in the literature is that corporations, government agencies, and non-profit organizations tend to be over-managed (and, in some cases, over-administrated). Reading all the books on leadership today will cover the gamut of Shakespeare to Geronimo. Not to say that these authors, leaders, and thinkers do not have anything good to say about leadership. It is just that the plethora of leadership literature has sent mixed signals to political and corporate leaders. When thinking of leadership and politics, a leader has to be a politician but a politician does not always have to be a leade...
There are some executives that like to look at academic journals but unfortunately the crossover literature has not reached them enough. In this book, we attempt to blend scholarly concepts with real world application. This book adds to a relatively small body of business literature but pays homage to the scholarly contributions. This book actually investigates the crossover potential of scholarly research and how it can be applied in the organizational boardroom. Things that can be used immediately and applied to the bottom line to improve profitability and revenue.
This book extends the current literature by showing how academic leaders can build more effective workplaces to innovate in universities, consisting of technological infrastructures, creating more effective culture and strategy, and developing transformational leadership.
In this book, we place a new emphasis on transformational leadership, not only because of the transformative nature of the model, but also, because of its ease of implementation by managers at all levels of the organizations. Transformational leadership is an ideal leadership form in enabling organizations to build knowledge-based organizations that can create and implement innovations timely as they operate and compete in global markets.
The design of this book is structured to present novel insights that explain the theoretical linkages among organizational factors in hotels. Managerial applications that may also support organizational performance are proposed here. My contribution to the hotel management literature lies in presenting theoretical linkages that incorporate the organizational factors that may impact organizational performance in hotels. The findings in this book are based upon previous industry researches. This book also has several implications for research. First, given the emphasis in the literature on hotel leadership and hotel knowledge management as two significant indicators for organizational performa...
This book begins with a story in which Jeremy recently quit his job as a consultant at Boston Consulting Group and found a new job as CEO of a large company in Miami, Florida. However, this large company faced many challenges. Jeremy’s experience encouraged him to develop a more effective leadership to save this company. So, he designed a framework in his mind to answer a critical question: How a company can be saved? This book is designed to answer this critical question.
This book raises vital questions as to how executives can successfully contribute to knowledge management and subsequently improve performance at all levels of the organization. Transformational leadership is proposed as the focal point of executive success coupled with the three-pronged approach mentioned in our proposed model. We suggest that a firm’s ability to enhance knowledge management and also organizational performance can be highly affected when executives adopt transformational leadership as the primary form of managing people, resources, and profitability.
This book presents some very beneficial management cases and managerial implications for executives and simply extends the current business literature by showing how executives can better manage business cases to increase organizational effectiveness. For example, in Tesla's case, this book indicates that executives can build a suitable workplace for implementing a knowledge management strategy by facilitating the best knowledge management practices. We suggest that the way for executives across the globe, to make the effective changes that are posited in the best practices of knowledge management. One important dimension that all executives worldwide can learn from this business case is that they can help their companies to address the current gaps in knowledge management strategy development in today’s uncertain business environment.
There are various issues and considerations existing in the leadership literature as the core of the criticism in the literature is that organizations of all sorts (corporations, government agencies, and non-profit organizations) tend to be over-managed (and, in some cases, over-administrated) and under-led. Reading all the books on leadership today will cover the gamut of Shakespeare to Geronimo. Not to say that these authors, leaders, and thinkers do not have anything good to say about leadership. It is just that the plethora of leadership literature has sent mixed signals to corporate leaders. The only thing we know is the managers may be doing things right but exemplary leaders are doing...
Providing a fresh perspective on strategy from an organizational perspective through a discursive approach featuring key theoretic tenets, this text is also pragmatic and emphasizes the practices of strategy to encourage the reader to be open to a wider set of ideas, with a little more relevance, and with a cooler attitude towards the affordances of the digital world and the possibilities for strategy’s futures. The key areas of Strategy take a critical stance in the new edition, and also include areas less evident in conventional strategy texts such as not-for-profit organizations, process theories, globalization, organizational politics and decision-making as well as the futures of strategy.