New Faces of Leadership
In New Faces of Leadership, Amanda Sinclair and Valerie Wilson investigate the more open and flexible forms that future leadership will take.
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Old models of tough, out-front leadership have less and less relevance in today's dynamic and international business environment. In New Faces of Leadership, Amanda Sinclair and Valerie Wilson investigate the more open and flexible forms that future leadership will take.
They explore the experiences of thirty of Australia's business leaders, all with successful careers in large corporations--and their approach is unusual. By drawing out the backgrounds of these men and women, the authors show how personal experience helps forge an openness to difference.
The childhood stories of these leaders are fascinating. They establish that early experiences in crossing borders--physical, cultural, linguistic, socio-economic and emotional borders--are a key ingredient for successful leadership in today's world.
In the stories of those from immigrant backgrounds, it is not surprising to find discrimination and a strong sense of needing to camouflage difference. But peeling back the layers reveals that those with more conventional lives have also been shaped by a variety of border-crossing experiences.
New Faces of Leadership is full of unexpected insights. It pinpoints the ambivalence many leaders feel about advocating for difference in business contexts. Yet it predicts that successful future leaders will be people who, having harnessed their own experiences of difference, are able to bring openness, flexibility and courage to their leadership.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
1 Changing Faces of Leadership: new tasks, new contexts, new faces
2 The Roots of Leadership: childhood and the origins of alternative leadership styles
3 The Routes to Leadership: the insiders, the outsiders, the pathways
4 Capabilities and Strategies: linking the personal to the organisational
5 Ambivalence about Difference: displaying or downplaying?
6 The Context for Leadership
7 Ways of Leading in the New Corporate World
Appendix
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Amanda Sinclair is Foundation Professor of Management (Diversity and Change) at the Melbourne Business School. Her recent publications include Doing Leadership Differently (MUP 1998).
Valerie Wilson has a PhD from the Melbourne Business School and is the author of The Secret Life of Money (1999). She is a freelance researcher, and runs a manufacturing and importing business.
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