This book provides a consistent model to understand leadership as a dynamic combination of vision, action, mobilization, and change. It puts servant leadership into a historical and theoretical context while providing a research-based approach and conceptual model that deepens our understanding...

In view of the rising importance and prevalence of network-based collaboration, this book aims to meet the need for more theory in this area. Theoretically conceptualizing and empirically describing the practice of reflexive leadership in inter-organisational networks, it explores how member...

Africa is fast becoming an investment destination for firms operating outside the continent, and effective management is centralto the realization of organizational goals. This volume evaluates the need for management philosophies andtheories that reflect the peculiarities of the African continent.

"Leadership and Coherence investigates how leaders justify their decisions, and how they bring about coherence amongst followers. Taking a cognitive approach, it builds on the work of Hannah Arendt to attempt a phenomenology of judgment, examining how the moral imperative experienced by leaders...

TABLE OF CONTENTSPrefaceAcknowledgmentsAbout the AuthorChapter 1 The Meaning and Components of Humility1. A Variety of Definitions and Meanings of Humility2. The Components and Dimensions of Humility3. Humility as a Virtue4. Four Types of Humility5. What Humility is Not6. Guidelines for...

1. Circumscribing the field -- 2. Locating the center -- 3. The framework for this investigation -- 4. From "it" to "you" to "us" -- 5. Cameron finds himself transfixed by "A Sunday afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte" -- 6. The shattering -- 7. The persuasions of Socrates -- 8. The...