Leadership in Complexity and Change

Leadership in Complexity and Change
Author: Sharon Varney
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2021-10-25
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 311071342X

If we needed a reminder that the world is complex and in constant motion, then 2020 certainly delivered. Suddenly, the inherent uncertainties and ambiguities of leadership were starkly revealed for all to see as the dynamics of complexity and change played out intensively, and very publicly, on the global stage. Leadership in Complexity and Change draws on complexity science to paint a picture of a world in constant motion, where leadership is enacted in the midst of complexity and continuous change. We must learn to engage with complexity. If not now, when? Part I of this insightful book brings complexity science to life by considering the practical challenges of complexity and its implications for leadership. Part II considers how leaders can reinvigorate existing tools and approaches with a new mindset, before offering some new tools and practices for learning informed leadership. Part III concludes by considering the person in the practice of leadership in complexity and change. Key ideas are presented through mini-cases and practical examples embedded throughout the book. This book will help executives, managers, and professionals recognise where some of the challenges come from understand why those challenges persist engage with the dynamic patterning of organisational life appreciate the scope for leadership recognise the choices that can be made choose how to manage themselves Events around the book Link to a De Gruyter Online Event in which the author Sharon Varney together with Jean Boulton, Leading authority on complexity theory and its implications for the social world, and Ian Rodwell, Head of Client Knowledge and Learning at Linklaters LLP, discuss what it means to be an effective leader in an uncertain world and that one should develop the ability to keep an eye on the emerging future: https://youtu.be/vSi732fdqbc

Finding Our Way

Finding Our Way
Author: Margaret J. Wheatley
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2005-02-14
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1605098795

The acclaimed author “richly articulates how the insights of modern science . . . can usher in a new era of human and planetary health” (Systems Thinker). For years, Margaret Wheatley has written eloquently about humanizing our organizations and helping people to work together more effectively and compassionately. She has shown how breakthroughs in chaos theory and quantum physics can enable organizations to function more like responsive, self-organizing living systems, rather than cold mechanisms of control. And she has gradually expanded these ideas into the wider arena of human society. In short, Margaret Wheatley is one of the most innovative and influential organizational thinkers of our time, and Finding Our Way brings together her shorter writings for the first time, touching on all the topics she has addressed throughout her career, showing how she has applied the ideas in her books in many different situations. “However,” she writes, “this is not a collection of articles. I updated, revised, or substantially added to the original content of each one. In this way, everything written here represents my current views on the subjects I write about.” Provocative, challenging, at times poetic, and often deeply moving, Finding Our Way sums up Wheatley’s thinking on a diverse scope of topics from leadership and management to education and raising children in turbulent times; from societal commentary to specific organizational techniques and more. “Wheatley provocatively lays out how managers must operate to be effective in a system that is ‘alive’ . . . Finding Our Way challenges us to see the enterprises we lead in new light.” —Leader’s Beacon

The Entangled Brain

The Entangled Brain
Author: Luiz Pessoa
Publisher: MIT Press
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2022-11-15
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0262544601

A new vision of the brain as a fully integrated, networked organ. Popular neuroscience accounts often focus on specific mind-brain aspects like addiction, cognition, or memory, but The Entangled Brain tackles a much bigger question: What kind of object is the brain? Neuroscientist Luiz Pessoa describes the brain as a highly networked, interconnected system that cannot be neatly decomposed into a set of independent parts. One can’t point to the brain and say, “This is where emotion happens” (or any other mental faculty). Pessoa argues that only by understanding how large-scale neural circuits combine multiple and diverse signals can we truly appreciate how the brain supports the mind. Presenting the brain as an integrated organ and drawing on neuroscience, computation, mathematics, systems theory, and evolution, The Entangled Brain explains how brain functions result from cross-cutting brain processing, not the function of segregated areas. Parts of the brain work in a coordinated fashion across large-scale distributed networks in which disparate parts of the cortex and the subcortex work simultaneously to bring about behaviors. Pessoa intuitively explains the concepts needed to formalize this idea of the brain as a complex system and how to unleash powerful understandings built with “collective computations.”

It's My Company Too!

It's My Company Too!
Author: Kenneth R. Thompson
Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2012-10-23
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 160832396X

With deep insight into 8 award-winning, market-leading companies, this book explores how the highest-performing organisations build a unified drive for excellence.

The Evo Devo of Leadership

The Evo Devo of Leadership
Author: Ashish 'ash" Paul
Publisher: EVO DEVO BOOKS
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2013-07-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

The concepts and practices that changed the Leadership paradigm across five continents. The evolution of a great leader who will deliver the Right Action at the Right Time for the Right Reason, consistently.A leader whose decisions benefit the community more than him or her. A leader who shares risk and reward equitably. A leader who can create transformation and knows how to fail successfully. A leader who is a champion's challenger for transformation. A wise leader.Evo-Devo is the concept that will govern this century as the Technology paradigm of the 20th Century evolves into the Psychological truth of the 21st century.Our current leadership is still following Machiavellian strategies in line with the hunter mentality of the past. The evo-devo of culture and technology is far ahead of the genetic make up of today's leaders. The technology that gives the power to a leader with knowledge and process needs compassion while still promoting success:Success which is self-sustaining

Leadership 2050

Leadership 2050
Author: Matthew Sowcik
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2015-07-24
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1785603485

What kind of leaders will the world need over the next thirty-five years? How will our knowledge of leadership, leadership development, and leadership education change? Leadership 2050 examines the issues, drivers, and contexts that will most likely influence leaders in the coming decades.

Coded Leadership

Coded Leadership
Author: Raul Villamarin Rodriguez
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 133
Release: 2022-08-10
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 1000629074

Coded Leadership: Developing Scalable Management in an AI-induced Quantum World will assist researchers and industry experts working towards improvising their processes and developing and deploying strategies in an AI-induced world of quantum computing. The book introduces the necessary background to understand the challenges in today’s organizational leadership and how artificial intelligence enables learning to be viewed from a probabilistic framework. Key Features Introduction to Quantum Natural Language Processing. Overview of Leadership and AI. The Age of Quantum Superiority. Challenges to Today’s Leadership. AI-induced Strategic Implementation and Organizational Performance. This book serves as a reference for researchers that need to know how AI and quantum can assist in leadership and organizational performance. The book will also be helpful for students that want to learn more about AI and quantum computing in various business applications.

Swarm Leadership and the Collective Mind

Swarm Leadership and the Collective Mind
Author: Peter A. Gloor
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2017-04-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1787142019

The future of business is swarm business – whether it’s at Uber, Airbnb, Tesla, or Apple, it’s not about being a fearless leader, but about creating a swarm that works together in collective consciousness to create great things and reinvent your business.

Leadership

Leadership
Author: William Russell White
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1296
Release: 1951
Genre: Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN:

Entangled Far Rights

Entangled Far Rights
Author: Marlene Laruelle
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2018-11-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 0822986345

Since the Ukrainian crisis in 2014, Russia’s support to the European far right—and to a variety of populist leaders more globally—has become a cornerstone of the West’s perception of Moscow as a “spoiler” on the international scene. The fact that Russia’s most fervent supporters are now to be found on the right of the ideological spectrum should not be a surprise. The European far right has always had Russophile tendencies, but these were obscured during the Cold War, when rightist politics were most of all anti-Communist. Entangled Far Rights traces the “intellectual romance” that existed between European far right groups and their Russian-Soviet counterparts during the twentieth century and accounts for their recent re-emergence.