Leaders in Transition - Softcover

Amado, Gilles

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1855754622 ISBN 13: 9781855754621

Publisher: Routledge, 2007

Synopsis

Leaders in Transition brings a new perspective on why some leaders succeed more than others when taking charge of an organisation. Based on in-depth case studies, when four new leaders and their teams in large and complex international organisations were tracked for over a year, this book uncovers that success in managing transition is directly related to leaders' ability to balance tensions, appropriately to the context. The reasons for each leader's effectiveness are explored and analysed, allowing the authors then to extrapolate some general conclusions about the ways in which these tensions reveal themselves during all leadership transitions. Evidently, the success or failure of a new leader is the result of the way multiple actors (the new leader, his or her boss, his organisation and its stakeholders) behave, before and during the taking charge. These multiple interactions are revealed and discussed.

About this title

Book Description:

This book brings a new perspective on why some leaders succeed more than others when taking charge of an organization. Based on in-depth case studies―in which four new leaders and their teams in large and complex international organizations were tracked for over a year―this book uncovers that success in managing transition is directly related to leaders’ ability to balance seven tensions appropriately to the context. The reader will learn how the four leaders balanced these seven tensions (mission, relationship, reciprocity, decision-making style, pace of change, development dilemmas and loyalty) with more or less successful results.

About the Author:

Gilles Amado

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1855754622
• ISBN 13: 9781855754621
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 204