Addressing the area of shared leadership, also known as collective or distributed leadership, this edited book embraces the underlying idea that leadership is a dynamic process that intersects closely with followership. While some authors present rigorously researched qualitative and...

Introduction -- Information: how to get your message across and gain credibility -- Communication: establish the dialogue -- Enabling: how to increase your own and your employees performance by learning and teaching to learn -- Empowerment: deploy the energy of the stakeholders -- The listening...

Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- The need for innovation -- Characteristics of the lateral leader -- The innovation test -- Laying the foundations for change -- Making the vision real -- Challenge your assumptions -- Ask searching questions -- Take a different view -- Combine the unusual --...

This book examines how, and the degree to which, the development of market principles accompnaying the advances of globalization has affected the traditional Japanese system. It focuses on four aspects of corporate management: management institutions, strategy, organization, and human resource...

Introduction -- What is intelligent disobedience? -- Vanquishing remorse -- A higher form of ethics -- Simple and commonplace intelligent disobedience -- Redefining courage -- History is rarely made by the well behaved -- Share the truth -- Authorizing control by relinquishing control --...